Only one PS3 first-party exclusive has topped 1 million US sales

“One could say that comparing Microsoft’s [and Nintendo's] biggest hits to Sony’s games is unfair”

why?

Uhhh…yeah….Resistance has been out the longest…

People really should buy MS:PR. It’s very good and miles better than the first part.

Sorry, but that’s really, really crap.

There’s not really an excuse for that. There’s a good mix of genre’s there, and all have relatively poor sales.

Pants.

@anasui
One argument would be that the XBox had a strong reputation for shooters and that has continued with the 360. Hence if you like your console shooters you will likely have a 360 and purchase big, well made sequels in that genre. Look outside shooters to other genres and see how well they stack up. What is MS’s best selling platformer for example? BKN&B tanked.

The key point that Sony should have released big sequels to their key titles is correct. We are a good few years in to this hardware cycle and we should have seen a GoW3 and GT5 a while ago. However bringing in new IP/ideas and trying to establish them is also commendable – even if it doesn’t always work.

For me Sony’s strength over the PSOne/PS2 and PS3 have been in diversity of the catalog and trying new things.

Seems to me US simply isn’t buying into PS3 in general an particularly for new IPs.

Having played Uncharted and Gears they’re both really terrific games (Gears does have the MP angle so popular with the core male demographic in the US mind you) and really each deserves stellar sales.

In the case of the PS3 IPs I don’t think the sales are so much a reflection on the titles so much as the PS3 and what it’s current install base is looking for.

The assumption is that it’s waiting for the big sequels – and if that’s correct then certainly for US, Sony would have been better served getting God of War, etc. out the door before looking at new IPs.

I bet LBP breaks a million if you count in bundled copies. And I’m somewhat surprised to see GT5:P in that bracket.

Still, it’s a shame for some of those titles. And it’s even more of a shame for the ‘new IP’.

Would people really be more interested in a new Jak and Daxter than in Uncharted, though? Really?

According to Polyphony it sold 760.000 in NA so if you want to be pedantic you can move it the next bracket.

There was a GT:Prologue Bundle, was there not?

Interesting aside. Ignore Gran Turismo, God of War and SOCOM and Sony only had one title which sold more than 2m on the *PS2* and that includes pack-ins.

DrDamn, numbers can be jiggled around to tell whatever story the author wants to convey. Just introduce a technicality here, exclude a region there..

Ehmmm….where is MGS???

@mck3nzi3
Filed under Konami and not Sony I’m guessing.

Though you do have a point as the VG247 article doesn’t make this clear – they chopped the top off the table which states “Published by SCEA”.

Mike, I usually respect your news posts, but this is seriously biased.

This is *not* a list of exclusive titles. This is a list of *first party* titles, and there are far more games than those which listed that have sold over 1 million on the PS3.

How about making the title reflect the content of the story?

MGS4 is notable by its absence, but I wonder what other PS3 exclusives could have topped 1m sales?

@Mike O’C: Yeah, you’re right. It’s first party. Edited.

LOL!!!

Danke.

“First party exclusive” is a bit of an oxymoron though. If it’s first party, it’s exclusive by default. So the “exclusive” part of the titles makes no sense.

Bitte.

It does seem a bit mean of them not to include the bundled copies, tbh. Pretty much all of those titles have been in at least one bundle, haven’t they?

I think you mean tautology, Michael. An oxymoron is something seemingly self-contradicting.

Now I can feel less like a failure for the rest of the day.

I own 9 of those games listed, I’m impressed by that.

That’s cuz these game really aren’t that great (Uncharted being the exception). More hype than quality (except to fanboys).

All depends on what you enjoy, doesn’t it?

True, but by the numbers it shows not a lot of people are enjoying what Sony has to offer

“That’s cuz these game really aren’t that great (Uncharted being the exception).”

Yeah, cause LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm and Heavenly Sword are shite, amirite?

“True, but by the numbers it shows not a lot of people are enjoying what Sony has to offer ”

I know, people just don’t have taste these days. ^.^

LBP, gets old fast. Motostorm… umm.. whatever.. and Heavenly sword is a great rental (beat in 5 hours)…

I wonder how the no-sequels-equals-no-sales argument accounts for Gears of War’s success, then?

Im betting that when the big guns finally arrive, GT, and GOW3, they will have some big sellers on their hands. IF those titles dont sell systems and take off, then nothing will.

Would God of War really attract that many people? From what I remember it never really sold spectacularly good.

Why does this matter to anyone who bought any one of those games?

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/109468/march-sees-33-spike-in-game-sales/

833,000 in 2007 for God of war 2

I think both Resistance games are fucking superb.
But maybe us PS3 owners are just buying Pre-owned or just wait for the prices to go down. I know I do. Games are just too damned expensive.

Gears of War is different in that it actually had a marketing budget.

That is the only thing.

Microsoft and Nintendo have agressive ad campaigns while Sony kind of prances aroudn the outskirts of good marketing.

Syrok said: People really should buy MS:PR. It’s very good and miles better than the first part.

nope, ms:pr should have never cost $60 out of the gate. it was an improved game built on the same engine so dev cost shouldn’t have been that much more expensive. The game should have cost $40-$50 at most.

Then maybe more people would have been inclined or enticed to have picked it up

I got Motorstorm and Resistance bundled in with my PS3. Really expected to love Motorstorm and find Resistance a big arse. As it turned out, I thought Motorstorm was crap and Resistance was above average at best but saved by having co-op campaign play.

Motorstorm Pacific Rift is bloody great, though!

Ugh, Resistance is such an underrated gem.

It’s like Ratchet And Clank, but scary, and that my friend is fucking awesome. And some interesting characters that got ditched in the sequel for testosterone guzzling american frat-boy-come-soldiers.

@theevilaires:

that was a dumb statement if I’ve ever heard one. by that logic, Gears of War 2 should’ve also only cost 40-50$.

yea im sure you’re the same dumbass that will buy left 4 dead 2 at full price when its the same fucking game only completed this time. you shithead xbot, its assholes like you that help the real crooks get away with the real crime.

and gears of war 2 was slammed by many people including your beloved xbots brothers that it was just the same old shit like the first gears. it should have cost $30 with the broken online it shipped with and heavy texture pop ins every 6 seconds.

Come on people. You’re both wrong, so just give up and shake hands. We’ve shed the main conflict maker today, so lets be calm?

Or is the main conflict maker position free, a spot you have to fill?

if you think the majority of games made this gen are worth $60 (vampire rain, bullet witch, too human, just naming a few) then you are a complete idiot.

Listen I can’t make you two stop, becuase you guys are obviously in deep, but just have a sensible argument, okay?

No_Pud stfu because you are probably LK

now moving along, if you can’t improve every aspect of the sequel title you’re developing for then you don’t deserve full price like the original because all that does is just make the sequel a big down loadable update on a disc.

Enter: Left 4 Dead 2

Oh god… Really dude?

Whatever, I just wanted to rejoice today. But whatever.

/licks tea

i dont even have an xbox, but i just got called an xbot 5 times… for defending pacific rift. teh fuck?

Even more of an insult, you were called me.