The Xbox 360 has long been considered the superior option for multiplatform games thanks to Xbox Live integration and the fact that it is, more often than not, the lead development platform. However, OTX analyst Nick Williams believes that things are changing, and that Xbox 360 users are slowly "defecting" to Sony's Black Box o' Blu-ray.
Williams talks about "franchise lineage," which is a fancy way of saying "what platforms people are buying sequels for." The analyst believes that, while Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Assassin's Creed were more popular on the 360, their sequels are gaining more traction on the PS3 this time around.
15% of those planning to buy the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed 2 own the Xbox 360 version of the first one, and 7% percent of those who plan to buy the Xbox 360 version own the original game on PS3. Allegedly, the numbers are also similar for Modern Warfare 2. While to most of us, these numbers don't say much, the analyst reckons that it shows a "sizable portion" of these so-called defections.
"The PS3 seems poised to shift the ratio of Xbox 360 to PS3 sales for most major multi-platform releases in its favor among dual owners," adds Williams.
What do you reckon? Is the PS3 slowly catching up to the Xbox 360 in the third party battlefield, or is Williams reading more into these numbers than he should? Speak your mind!
Contest:
7:40 PM on 11.05.2009
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Wait a minute...
And yeah, the PS3 still needs to cover a lot of ground to catch up with the 360.
Seriously though, after getting a PS3 I find myself loathe to play my 360. This is mostly because I have a 20 gig HDD for the 360 and a 120 gig SATA drive for my PS3... Plus PS3 let's me backup saves onto a flashdrive (for the most part) and backup the entire HDD and if my PS3 fails I don't have to re-download EVERYTHING to get it to work on my 360 again...
Sigh, the 360 has great games but the console is just set up to FRUSTRATE and SCREW OVER users >_<
i don't know about purchasing games though.
eh, i was considering "defecting" to a 360 as it seems that it is getting cheap enough that i won't feel too angry if it breaks.
This.
I'm defecting to the Sonyiet Union Snake.
Whos numbers are right? Vgchrtz has Modern Warfare 2, Assassins creed, Dragon Age: Origins and BioShock 2 having more preorders by half on the 360. With Xbox 360-Modern Warfare 2 having 1,063,808 more preoders than PS3. Just over 1Mil. more are going to be sold on the 360.
we must send em to the gulags
You're missing the point that you actually must back up your PS3 saves for them to survive a system error, it's a serious pain in the ass.
"the world was once one, but the cold war divided it in two"
pascuz46
"the world was once one, but the console war divided it into two"
Trust me, with the process you have to go through to get everything to work on it again, you will feel angry.
I have no idea what you're talking about :/
I had a system error awhile ago and didn't actually lose anything...
However, with my 360 after the first one went RROD I also lost the HDD >_<
Not saying that both of those things happen to everyone, but that's been my experience and that's why after Mass Effect 2 I'm not sure I'm gonna get anything for the 360 until Mass Effect 3...
i expect the ps3 to over take the 360 by late spring/early summer when sony has ff13, gow3 and gt5 out in all regions and microsoft just has halo:reach around, i also expect microsoft to release halo:reach around earlier because of this.
sony can do it unless president Obama tries to do a hostile takeover of the games industry, like he's been doing with every other industry. fuck the government.
also, cocks!
it's easier when trolls point themselves out.
rrod does not wipe your hdd, everything on that is safe.
do you think anyone thinks the ps3 magically backs up all your saves with just a thought?
In the end though, who gives a shit, right? Pick the one you like and play games.
one of the main turn offs is its so damm loud unless u install which i cant since its already full but also i grew up on ps1 and ps2 so controller just comes more natural to me
as for xbox live being better i really don't think that is really true more of a myth since all games are p2p on both consoles either way i cant really say i see better performance out of any game on xlive anyway that's just my opinion i am sure many disagree
1) far better online experience on Live (wah if you cant afford the 3-4 dollars a month)
2) far better user interface (sony's ps3 UI after a million firmware updates is still appalling)
3) better controller
4) better community
5) IRL friends active on live 6 - on psn, 0.0
sony should be thankful for the few worthwhile exclusives they have (demons souls, uncharted 2, valykria chronicles) - besides them my ps3 collects dust as a game system and is used exclusively for blu-ray from netflix :)
Companies always do this, throw pointless numbers around that are 'true' but without revealing the methodology on it, it's impossible to judge the weight of their conclusions.
It's possible I guess that lots of 360 owners have picked up a PS3 slim recently and want to buy something for the new shiny console.
Play whatever console or consoles have the games you want to play. For me, that was initially the 360 and that has since changed.
Last time I buy a console so close to a launch.