Well to answer the question in the header no.

There first party games sell more than enough worldwide to recoup dev costs and pay the salaries of the employees and begin development on the sequels and other projects.once sales have done that anything afterwards is just bragging rights for the people who own 8 homes made of gold and frankly I don't give a rift about em.

People have enjoyed the games and want more, add to the fact that creating these first party games makes engines that allow others to create on what we consisder new tech (I don't see enyone saying they have maxed out the cell , or created a game that fills a 100 gb blu ray disk efficiently so soon), sounds like a success to me but apparently if it fails to reach 9 trillion sales it was a failure.

But the lack of over all sales I could to the economy, around the launch of the ps3 it finally dawned upon th U.S juuuuust how much the war cost and that the phrase "charge it" would have to be removed from our volcabularies, this created a general scorn twoards expensive things because we could no longer afford them.

Everything about the PS3 is in the early adopter phase( yes still, even to this day) from the cell to blu ray, but instead of saying we can't afford the early adopter phase anymore and waiting for a price cut, our wonderful media decided to bash it(because it didn't occour to them that that would make us look stupid), depsite the fact that blu ray is the next format (that's good considering a lot of devs are kinda running low on space) and that all you need to do to utilize the cell is spend time with it (despite the fact that the last two console generations already taught us that), or that world wide its actually selling faster than the 360 even at its price point we will bash it until the media deems it cheap and then we will flock to it in droves.

What's totally ironic is that most of the bashing and the ps3 is failing articles are coming from the U.S, the country that caused the recession ( think about it for a second, the people that piledrived wall street into the ground have the balls to critizize someone else for their finacial decisions.........).

Well sorry guess I went on a bit of a rant there (work seems epecially boring with my new TV coming friday, this damn clock isn't ticking fast enough) but exclusive sell to morer than enough people and push boundaries so there proforming just fine.

(As for the UK we (as in us americans) kinda took their economy with us, they don't complain as much but I imagine their in a similar situation)

@Platypus

And I thought you only crawled out of your hole to stalk Anthony you freaky little bastard

I don't care. I have a really nice Blu Ray player that also has a media center and plays games. I got my moneys worth. I happen to like the exclusives, so I'm not terribly feeling like I'm at a loss since I can play on either platform.

The first comment should have veen the last. Sony won't market any of their games as hard as Microsoft will.

BluDesign summarized my earlier ramble in a nice, neat package. We should be BFF now.

These numbers are for NA only. NOT worldwide sales. Funny how you don't mention that. But I would expect nothing less from Jim Sterling.

Oh, and one last small comment.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts has only sold half a million copies worldwide and it was even released at a lower price point.

Shows you how even a larger fanbase faced with a CHEAPER, but still great game, can look the other way if the game doesn't fall into an easily marketable category.

Edit usnt mean isn't in blackberry keyboard.

360 releases 2005

PS3 release 2007 in UK

360 larger install base (in US and UK)

PS3 smaller install base (apart from mainland EU and JPN)



I can't for the life of me think why PS3 games would sell less.... -.-

The mascot would help a bit as I've heard too many times in the store from granparents speaking about "that gaming system with the cartoon fello who jumps".

They also tried to buy Ps2 games for theit grandsons Nintendo machine and that they liked disney movie X so the game must be good....

Old people just won't buy the PS3 for their kids kids.

Better adverts would also help BIG time.

I'm sick to death of the militant fanboy attitude this generation, it seems to reach new levels of stupidity on a daily basis.

Maybe it’s because I'm getting older and maybe it’s because I’ve been through just about every major console and computer generation that this seems so pathetic to me. Yes Sony (and Microsoft) have made some stupid decisions both from a business and technical standpoint but I personally love this hardware generation. All the competition reminds me of the 16-bit days when I had both a Mega Drive and a SNES, so long as no consoles die a horrible death like the Saturn and Dreamcast I’ll be perfectly happy.

All of you need to grow up, people are allowed to like other things, shouting sales figures, technical specifications, prices and insults at people won’t change that. Just because someone reports something that YOU don’t like does not automatically make them bias for or against one company. You need to realise that competition is a good thing that benefits us.

I own all 3 and love them all for different reasons. I only own two games for the ps3 (valkryia and LBP) and consider it a waste to buy games for it vs 360. All of my friends play on the 360, so there isn't any point in getting a multi-platform game for the ps3. KZ2 and Resistance don't really interest me, what else is there? Rez? Katamari? Ico? Where are the interesting titles?
I can't even play these ps2 games on my 80gb ps3 :/ I pretty much only consider buying games for the ps3 is it's primarily a 1st person title, like dead space.

In the end I only bought the ps3 because I wanted a bluray player. The ps3 does have amazing and quiet hardware and the interface is very nice and "apple" vs the 360. For what I bought it for, it performs excellently.

i dont care. im still gonna buy the games I wanna play.
these numbers have no effect on any of us. get over it. and play your games.

Hey agree to disagree, its up to you, but I feel no shame in raising any points since I'm a long time gamer who has taken an interest in the games industry. Dtoid would be crap if we couldn't discuss anything.

I too was there back in the 8-16 bit days, where the rivalry was fierce and no quarter given, in what seemed like console Mortal Kombat....or video game armageddon. Indeed, competition makes things better for us, but its annoying to see other competition not raising their game.

Militant fanboys...? That's funny.

Are Sony first? No
Are they second? No
Are they third? Yes

Sony are too stubborn and don't like being wrong. PS3 will have some good exclusives, but it will never be enough.

@Diversion. Good for you, sir. I hope to be in your position one day. I'd still think Sony had problems even if I already owned a PS3.

I think the most imperative issue isn't rationalizing why Sony is under-performing with the numbers Jim posted, but why he didn't post world-wide sales numbers instead of an individual region.

That said, there is little doubt that Sony isn't doing as hot as Microsoft or Nintendo.

What a dumb ass article. The PS3 has nowhere near the install base of the Xbox. Obviously the core games are not going to sell as many copies.

it's not as if the PS3 first party games have been bad many better than halo3 or gears of war 2. The problem seems to me to be perception and it's cool to play halo/gears (also the larger install base) so its pretty clear they are going to sell more copies.

PS3 is an awesome little beast. Ugly as sin (seriously, it looks like a digibox on crack), but an awesome little beast. Problem is, when you've already owned/played on a 360, then you've already experienced next-gen on consoles, and as good as the PS3 is, it just doesn't 'blow your doors off'. The head start from MS really did decide the next-gen console war, and not just in terms of the larger user-base that enabled. The Sony system was unable to produce the 'wow' factor, and therefore their wonky little system was greeted with a worldwide 'meh'

I guess the primary reason for the discrepancy in the exclusive sales figures is the PS3's meager installed base. It's not like you can fault the sheer quality of the PS3 exclusives such as Valkyria Chronicles, Metal Gear Solid 4 and the absolutely amazing Uncharted...