[quote name='jer7583']Gran Turismo is dead to me as a series. It hasn't changed near enough over the years and has been way too much about the look without really advancing anything in gameplay since GT3, and in some ways GT2. Online play might help, but realistic racing sims just don't have a dynamic enough experience to be interesting for a long time. Some people might enjoy trying to perfectly replicate a method of driving for 30-40 hours but it gets old quick for me. I think it's a limited appeal title for gearheads and Speed TV freaks.
Games like burnout can have much more appeal because they're actually fun, and take advantage of the gaming medium to create a new experience.
As for Sony, well they have a long way to go. That's all there is to it, they are absolutely attempting to climb out of an increasingly deep hole. I don't think they'll be able to recover this generation, but who knows? PS3 doesn't even register on my radar (due to price and lack of interesting titles) when I think of this generation of gaming, and that's sad.[/quote]
This is just disgustingly silly.
You've been a member of this board for 3 years and you really THINK all that? Fine, I'll go ahead and open the door for you, since the sun is so bright out and you've missed all that healthy sunshine.
Let's analyze the 360 Sales versus PS3 sales at a deeper angle. A side by side chronical comparison.
The total of 360 sales in Quarter 1 & 2 combined is 1,300,000 roughly. Remember, quarter 2 ends at the end of June, so those are sales calculated from January 1st to June 30th/31st.
From November 11th/17th until now, PS3 has sold
4.28 million units. They didn't hit the 1 million mark until January, so you can't take 1 million from the month extra calculation, even if, being generous, you took away 1 million sales for the extra months in calculation, the PS3 at the least, has sold 3 million in Quarter 1 & 2.
No, it's not losing the console HD race. It's winning it. 360 is just attempting to make people believe otherwise, by going based off total sales.
*News Flash* When did the 360 debut? November 22nd, 2005. Was the Nintendo Wii around? No. The only system Microsoft had to compete with during that season was the Playstation 2 and people were ready for new systems.
Even with the Nintendo Wii, the 360's strong community and a lackluster holiday performance, (Close to 1 million world wide versus 4.4 million 360 sales) Sony managed to catch up to 360's pace they were holding in 2006 when their system had its Q1 and Q2 period.
Don't forget Gears of War. Gears of War went platinum at launch, something not even Zelda could do. Gears of War sold a lot of systems in December.
360 isn't "winning" anything. It only WON 2006. 2007 shouldn't factor sales from 2006 and 2005 so the whole "11.4 million worldwide" is a moot number. If you want the real sales figures for 2007 to know who's doing better, I'll fill you in:
For the year of 2007 the scores are:
1) Nintendo Wii
2) Playstation 3
3) Xbox 360
Now don't get me wrong, Halo 3 is definitely going to turn the tide, but it's going to be a CLOSE war, especially if Sony has a holiday price drop.
Sony is far from dead in the console wars.