Microsoft Touts Halo 3 Sales Dominance Over Combined PS3 Exclusive Sales, Sony Shrugs
by Jeff Mattas, Jun 10, 2010 1:40pm PDTMicrosoft's Aaron Greenberg officially threw a gauntlet at Sony's feet with a tweet asserting that Halo 3 has officially outsold six PlayStation 3 excluside titles combined.
Just in from research team (NPD): Halo 3 has outsold Resistance 1 + 2, Uncharted 1+2, Killzone 2 and God of War III COMBINED....wow
It's worth noting that Halo 3's release predated all of the Sony exclusives it reportedly outsold, with the exception of Resistance: Fall of Man. Even Uncharted: Among Thieves didn't hit the streets until two months after the final chapter in Master Chief's trilogy. However, neither of those factors makes Greenberg's claim any less impressive.
Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Ray Maguire quickly responded, telling Edge:
Well I'm really happy with them because as I said, we're selling more than we ever have done before. Secondly, I'm not too fussed about the competitive bits or people's comments because at the end of the day, I've only got my focus, and that is giving consumers a great experience and great content and I don't care what anybody else does.
If we are doing that and if we are measured by the enjoyment and the engagement that we have with our consumers and we can have a successful business then that's what it will be. Our DNA is about innovation and giving people technology that they didn't even realise they needed at the time and about pushing the envelope.
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And yes it often helps to toot your own horn. Publishers are not fiscally stupid (generally) and go where the money is. If Sony had anything to toot (or tweet) about you know you would be hearing all about it. His "I don't care what anybody else does." statement is really funny though considering how much they DO care what everyone else is doing so they can do it too.
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Of all of the games listed that Halo 3 beat, had they been released for the 360 too, The PS3 wouldn't even be on the charts. It's the handful of good exclusives that are keeping it on life support.
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I personally did not like Halo 3, as for Reach the minion in side of me says it will be good very good.
We will see at E3...
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Then I got Uncharted 2 along with all my ps3 friends, almost all of us agreed it was one of the best sp games we had ever played, and we played the mp for months and still play it now and then on a regular basis.
You can't argue numbers, so they have won on the sales department, but that doesn't equate to quality.
Wii Sports is the largest selling software of any of the current gens. I don't think anybody out there would even begin to compare it with a full fledged game like any of the ones on this list.
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(And I'm hardly any kind of Sony fanboy or whatever, I'm primarily a PC gamer who has owned both a 360 in the past and very much enjoyed it and its games AND currently owns a PS3 and enjoys it and its games.)
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Halo 3: 11.01M
Resistance 1: 3.69M
Resistance 2: 1.88M
Uncharted 1: 3.18M
Uncharted 2: 3.29M
Killzone 2: 2.30M
God of War 3: 2.55M
Total = 16.89M
That's 5.88 Million more for those six PS3 exclusives.
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I also don't understand exactly what is gained by saying this. I'm sure most everybody except the fan boys will view this as arrogant?
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