Xbox 360 Fanboy

Pachter is wrong as much as he is right. He's been almost universally overpredicting PS3 success since its launch. Meanwhile underestimating the xbox 360.

If you watch the bonus round you would swear he's some sort of PS3 fanboy that trys to hide it. He always talks up blu-ray and says stuff like the exclusive DLC for GTAIV won't matter at all because no one can finish a GTA game, they just pick it up and mess around for a few minutes like he does apparently.

He also said that being able to get drunk in GTAIV is "dopey", basically saying that it's a stupid and childish idea. Pachter is an idiot imo I don't know why anyone listens to him.

Also, funny quote regarding the NPD results this month, no Sony arrogance at all here...

"This further proves the trend that 2008 is the year for PlayStation."

- Jack Tretton, president and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment America

Well PerfectStrategy it's pretty much a given. He's some moron from Sony, whats he supposed to say?

It's hard to say. If eventually people with a Bluray player realize that the PS3 is getting some decent exclusives (and even more in the future) and has some of the same big name multiplatform titles I could see there being a huge shift.

But if the PS3 continues to just manage to get one game, if that, in the top ten, even when just behind the 360 (or even ahead of it) that's going to be a problem.

I guess we'll see when GT5 Prologue hits these charts. It really depends on whether or not most fans of that and MGS have already bought the system or not. The two are neck and neck for the month at this point as it is.

i disagree tony

if people are buying a ps3 because it's "the best bluray player on the market at this point", much of those buyers are buying it for the movie playing capabilities. those buyers don't translate into huge buyers of games (look at the numbers between Vegas2 on PS3 and Xbox 360)

I just bought a PS3 and it was mainly for the Blu-Ray capabilities, as its the best deal out of any players currently on the market. And it can also play games, stream music from my PC, stream video, etc.

There are a few good titles already out on the PS3 and there are some exclusives coming out this year that I'll probably pickup, MGS, KillZone 2, Resistance 2, etc.

But I'm a huge fan of the 360 and prefer the controller and the Live experience far and above the PS3. I believe the industry has room for both consoles and it will only benefit us that they both continue the competition in the market.

Everyone keeps touting that the next two years the PS3 will take off. While that may be true for 2008, I am not so sure about 2009. By then Blu-ray players should be under that $199 price mark and the incentive to purchase a PS3 because it is the cheapest or best Blu-Ray player is no longer there. With gaming software as low as it is now how can developers not look at the 360 has the lead console to go with, especially with reports claiming attach rates for the PS3 are as low as 3-4 games per console.

Because you managed to sell 5k more consoles last month (despite getting whipped for the past 2 months).

You must be so happy today...

Awww, never mind. I guess they ARE going to show up. I was declaring my happiness that you psychos would stay in your holes.

LOL, "back to ur hole bitch" - Cole

360 is beating PS3 despite the fact that it's been out for 2 years already, which means our fanbase is only growing. PS3 will be playing catch up for a long time...

if the joystiq network poll is any sort of indicator, it's going to be something like 60/40 in 360's favor which is a LOT closer than i thought it'd be.

I agree. but you have to consider that a huge portion of people who will be buying GTA:IV are not hardcore gamers. They're the kind of people who aren't reading Joystiq on a daily basis like us.
those people might nto realize GTA:IV exists until they see advertisements for it in the coming month.

Luckily for a 360 fanboy like myself, the 360 is more like the ps2 was last generation. so cross those fingers.

I could have sworn that 2007 was suppose to be the year of the ps3. Whatever.

It may please you to know that the ps3 will eventually take the lead over the 360 due to its sales in japan(where the ps3 averages about 65k a week), but unless sony can double their sales in japan, it will not happen in 2008 or 2009. 2010 should see the ps3 in the lead, but we'll be reading about the next Nintendo and Microsoft consoles by then.

so far all i see is mgs and rfom2.

rfom paled in comparison to gears of war, and aside form those two, the ps3 doens't have much to offer. It's got haze, which is looking worse and worse. It's got lbp, whihc is a niche game. And that's it.

The 360 has ninja Gaiden, Too Human, Banjo 3, halo wars, and a dozen more awesome games.