GameFreaks365, January 10th:
Despite what Microsoft has repeatedly called "the greatest holiday lineup in videogame history" with the Games of the Year lineup, the Xbox 360 struggled in 2007 to outpace PS3. Xbox 360 shipments declined 18 percent from 8.9 million in 2006 to 7.3 million in 2007.
On the other hand, Sony PS3 appears to be on the rebound, according to preliminary numbers from Sony's PR department in Foster City. Worldwide totals are estimated to be in the range of 5-6 million for PS3 in 2007.
While exact numbers for Wii in 2007 will not be known until NPD reports in mid-January 2008, Nintendo estimates nearly as many Wiis will be sold in the console's first year and three months (17.5 million) as Microsoft has shipped Xbox 360 in its first two years.
GameFreaks365 notes that two weeks after Christmas, the Nintendo Wii and DS are still sold out in all of the local retailers they contacted: four GameStops, two Game Crazys, a Circuit City, two Wal-Marts, Toys R Us, Meijer and Target.
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Microtransactions have gotten ridiculously overpriced in recent years, with titles now offering cosmetic skins worth more than some games.
The elephant in the room tho is personal accountability. It’s easy (albeit basic) to blame the big, bad corpo, but microtransactions wouldn’t be where they are if gamers didn’t spend money on them. As it stands the MTs usually make more than the game. Publishers know raising game prices will cause backlash, so they do MTs to compensate. But the adult conversation is consumers determine the success of products with their wallets. So if MTs are a huge thing, it’s because we as consumers told them we like them by giving them a lot of money for them. So if you don’t want them to be a thing, convince your fellow gamers to stop buying them and expect that games will be decently more expensive. You all can disagree all you want, but reality is a bitch, and eventually you have to live in it.
Trying to convince people is the least realistic thing. If we are trying to be adults, actual action is what changes things not "convincing campaigns" on platforms owned by the people 'you' are going against. It's madness and idealistic.
Easier said than done. I've told gamers for years to not buy micro transactions, expensive dlc, etc. Gamers bought it anyway. Didn't fit on a DVD that would have fit on a Blu-ray disc.
I also told some gamers to not pay for online like Xbox Live because it would force the rest of the industry to only offer playing online if you pay for it. Told them not to support a broken console that Red Ringed. To not support Xbox One because Microsoft tried to take away game ownership and how you play your games. To not pay for a console by one manufacturer where a, now 3 trillion worth, didn't make enough games at the level of Nintendo or Sony who are worth less money.
How much of that did you support anyway with your money then go back and read your comment again.
There never was, the only time I paid for a microtransaction was on Blacklight Retribution (PS4) and it was because I enjoyed the game a lot so I felt the devs should get something for all that entertainment (€5 "membership")
The devs wouldn’t get that though, that shit goes straight to the higher ups who do f*** all let’s be honest.
Probably, but I wasn't as cynical back then and €5 wasn't a big ask to get the guns with grinding instead of renting them, and the game was good (still is on the PS5/4)
I couldn’t believe what Blizzard charged for horse armor and cosmetics in Diablo 4…
I remember back in the day when a season pass was $15 and you got everything included in it. Now, I see them at $60 and you still don’t get everything.
That's just Blizzard. Unlike Bethesda's $0.99 horse armour, Blizzard's first microtransaction, Sparkle Pony, cost $15.
As soon as gaming wasn't deemed nerdy anymore, and reached the casuals this happened. We're smart, but casuals play mobile games and other stuff, and don't really have anything to compare. They think gaming is supposed to be like this and pay for in game purchases.
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A analysis of year over year....tends to happen with more then a 2 year stretch a decline of 18% over a single year is not a detailed analysis of a concurrent trend.
All information used in this article is old by a week or more, and is a biased peice of crap site that no one has ever heard of till it was posted here. which was obviously posted by a sonyfanboy.
Sure, there are many people who don't care about the RROD and are buying Xbox 360, but there are also many who are staying away from 360 because of the quality issue. Quality and reliability still stand for something for some people.
It's the later segment of people that are hurting Microsoft's sales.
I'd have figured most people who are buying the 360 were also Xbox owners themselves. Although, having a sales DECLINE during your best year is really baffling. The sales might jump back up during the GTA4 period though.
"Worldwide totals are estimated to be in the range of 5-6 million for PS3 in 2007."
They had reached 5 million long before the holiday season even started.
360 down 18% in shipments from 8.9 million in 2006 to 7.3, that's 16.2 total. Microsoft has already said they shipped 17.7.
And then they also say it's 360 who's doing bad. if PS3 in total worldwide is 5-6 million shipped, they're doing horrible.
This article isn't clear enough, or accurate, or anything.