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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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But hey, if Sony had any numbers like this they would drop them in a second, and it would not be considered a cheap shot.
This is the company that said online console gaming was a fad...And instead of giving us a rumble feature in our first gen controllers gave us lame motion control capability. Yeah they are an Honorable Japanese company...yeah honorable....
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