MS: Halo 3 outsold six PS3 titles combined

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 June, 2010

Greenberg goes on offensive pre-E3.

Affable Xbox 360 mouthpiece Aaron Greenberg has stirred things up ahead of next week's traditional Sony vs. Microsoft E3 battle by claiming that Halo 3 sales are more than most of Sony's first-party line-up put together.

"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," Greenberg tweeted overnight.

Microsoft said in January 2008 that Halo 3 had sold 8.1 million copies worldwide, and according to unofficial VGChartz data it passed the 10 million threshold last August, since when it has also joined the Xbox Live Games on Demand line-up.

According to Sony, the two Uncharted games have sold over 4.5 million combined, while God of War III was quickly reported to have hit 1.1m worldwide, and Killzone 2 and the original Resistance: Fall of Man both topped 1m. Data for Resistance 2 doesn't seem to be available.

Greenberg is often referred to by Destructoid as Microsoft's "Minister of Propaganda" - a label he once gave Eurogamer the impression he rather enjoys - and is intimately involved in orchestrating the platform holder's E3 press conference, which takes place next Monday, 14th June, at 10am PST / 6pm BST.

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  • Nazo #1 2 years ago

    Yep, they're gonna miss Bungie.

  • matrim83 #2 2 years ago

    Good trolling there buddy. Lets see how many people bite. :D

  • DoctorFraud #3 2 years ago

    PS3 exclusive sales are pretty poor, probably due to them not being very good to play.

    Sure they look nice, but the key ingredients just arent there.

    Halo sells because the most important component - the gameplay - is head and shoulders above any competition.

  • bad09 #4 2 years ago

    Who cares apart from sad little fanboy idiots?

    These mouth pieces are just embarrassing, the constant playground shouts of "we are better than you!" from supposedly professional people is one of the reasons I started to go off the consoles this gen.

  • KayJay #5 2 years ago

    "being very good to play."
    Clearly Mr Fraud you cant have played any of the PS3 games he mentions.

  • Apostle #6 2 years ago

    Here. ...... We ......... Go!

  • lambtron #7 2 years ago

    "Clearly Mr Fraud you cant have played any of the PS3 games he mentions. "

    Resistance 1+2? :)

  • Old_Books #8 2 years ago

    And several Ninty first party titles such as Wii Fit have outsold Halo 3. Conclusion: sales mean fuck all when determining a game's quality; see utter bilge such as Modern Warfare. (Halo is great BTW).
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 08:48

  • KayJay #9 2 years ago

    @lambtron "Resistance 1+2? :) "

    What? Yeah I will give you 2 perhaps (Didnt enjoy it as much as 1) but 1 was my first game on PS3 and it was frikken awesome and it played just fine. I had lots of online sessions with it too which all in all was pretty well implemented and well, you know. Pretty Good To Play!

  • anomagnus #10 2 years ago

    I doubt they'll miss bungie that much, as long as they can get a good team in to replace them. I doubt they're going to pull an activision and burn the franchise, like MW.

    As for the potshots, i can never understand why people get so worked up about them. No offense to bad09, but getting turned of, in what my opinion is the best gen of consoles yet, just becasue some mouths are shooting off, is either forum hyperbole, or you're very, very easily annoyed.

    They're doing their job, they're making noise. Ignore it.

    In fairness though, GOW3, and Uncharted 2 are stand out games, and probably did deserve better sales figures, but i've long since traded them in, yet i kept halo 3, and even replaced it when i cracked the disc. There is something halo3 that i go back to every few months. Its hard to argue with that.

  • Gaol #11 2 years ago

    I'm not surprised he's shouting about an exclusive from years ago given the current line up.

  • KayJay #12 2 years ago

    Its all to do with the community the xbox has created.
    Right from the first xbox and Halo 1 it was awesome*, I remember going home more or less every lunch time to play it with a buddy and that loyalty and model aint going to be broken easily.
    The 360 has a HUGE install base all over the world and when titles that have the history and prestige of a Halo game, everyone is in.
    It just the way it is.

    *Halo 1 was awesome but I havent bothered with any of the others. Im not part of that community. I had a bash on ODST recently and it just didnt take.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 08:56

  • DonnieDarko333 #13 2 years ago

    What an idiot...i applaud the six PS3 games for being totally different! Unlike bloody Halo which remains the same in each game......(Halo is a good series though, don't get me wrong)

  • FinalBurn #14 2 years ago

    @ bad09

    Totally agree with you, man.
    Even worse - in my opinion - is they created proper hordes of disciples... 360 fanboys proud of 'their' sales, PS3 ones with their paintings in motion...
    Really, this new breed of fanboys (even if they arent 'boys' anymore, by any means) is what I blame this gen for the most.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 08:56

  • GamesConnoisseur #15 2 years ago

    That sounds impressive until Nintendo people show up!

    Their stats would shame Aaron and have Sony's feeling even more inadequate!

    Aye the sales are never an indictaor of quality, but rather that of having some right stuff; such as how to appeals to say, the kids or how to best fleece fools of their money!

  • DoctorFraud #16 2 years ago

    @kj66246

    I own a PS3 and have played all the mentioned exclusives. I even bought a couple of them. Sold most of them on pretty quick though.

    Demons Souls and wipeout are the only PS3 exclusives that have truly quality gameplay.

  • spazmo #17 2 years ago

    Everyone knows the best stuff in life is also the most popular.

  • AllenSpawn #18 2 years ago

    I've bought all those games.

    It was all good fun( resistance games were a bit of a slog).

    Gaming is fun.

    There's a difference between consoles you say??
    I'm meant to prefer one over the other you say?

    No. It's ALL good.

  • KayJay #19 2 years ago

    @DoctorFraud
    That may well be your opinion but im sure the hoards of people that Curshed Hades in GOWIII, concqured the train section in Uncharted 2 and shot lots of Helghast in the face in Killzone 3 would disagree.

    You can't honestly say they arent "Very good to play"

  • jag10 #20 2 years ago

    he must be a massive fan of Susan Boyle becasue she's outsold the halo series lmao.

  • MaoZedong #21 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:40:08 17-12-2011

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #22 2 years ago

    Yeah, but how many did ODiouS Tea sell?

  • Verminox #23 2 years ago

    So Xbox has the sales, but PS3 has the games. I'll take the later thanks, as I couldn't care about how much has been sold.

  • NotSoSlim #24 2 years ago

    Funny thing is he's talking about the US only which given 360 has double the install base is not surprising, worldwide those games have sold better...Gran Turismo has outsold all the Halos so his point is pathetic and needless
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 11:09

  • brod #25 2 years ago

    Buy all consoles.

  • TeaFiend #26 2 years ago

    @DonnieDarko333:
    They were not six totally different games. There was two original games there, four of them are sequels.

  • patch #27 2 years ago

    Didn't GT5 Prologue sell over 4.5 million copies? Makes you wonder how many GT5 proper will sell when (if?) it comes out.

  • godofpwnage87 #28 2 years ago

    "Data for Resistance 2 doesn't seem to be available"

    lol cus the figures are as embarrassing as the game was?

  • Eraysor #29 2 years ago

    woop tee doo

  • Odessa #30 2 years ago

    People, he is NOT talking to you!!!
    He is talking to the shareholders!!!

    How can a gamer care about sales figures??? Gamers care about games.

  • bad09 #31 2 years ago

    He's briefing shareholders on Twitter now Odessa? ;)

  • icematt12 #32 2 years ago

    Couldn't he have used MGS4 (you know, an exclusive series with more than 2 games to establish a fanbase) or games that have been out for roughly the same time as Halo 3?

  • DoctorFraud #33 2 years ago

    @kj66246

    "You can't honestly say they arent "Very good to play" "

    Uncharted 2 was okay, didnt want to play any further through GoW3 than the demo, but Killzone was not even mediocre. It was just plain bad. Bad to play because of bad controls, bad characters, bad dialog and predictable and tired level design and encounters.

    The resistance games were pretty shit too, as was the first uncharted.

    So apart from uncharted 2 I can honestly say those games are not very good to play, which is why they did not sell well. Basically they only sold to PS3 loyalists, not people interested in good games.

  • Steroyd #34 2 years ago

    People, he is NOT talking to you!!!
    He is talking to the shareholders!!!

    Wait so now Shareholders are Xbox 360 fanboys to?

    It must have been a hoot with Nintendo's shareholder meeting in Japan.

    We sold 10x more copies of Wii Play than there are Xbox 360 consoles hur hur hur

  • Stomp224 #35 2 years ago

    Hmm... most the examples given, except Resistance 1 and Uncharted 1, were only released in the last 12 months.... how old is Halo 3 now?

    Im not denying the validity of the claim, Halo sold gazillions (and rightly so, I believe), but these PR guys boasts are awfully boring and childish. Pandering to the audience mindset, I suppose.

  • KayJay #36 2 years ago

    @ DoctorFraud
    You are right they were all bad... Stop talking shit. :-)

    Uncharted 1 on Metacritic
    Uncharted 2 on Metacritic
    God Of War III on Metacritic
    Killzone 2 on Metacritic
    Resistance 1 on Metacritic
    Resistance 2 on Metacritic

  • irve77 #37 2 years ago

    nice bit of spin get in there quick before god of war sells more copies and it's a really powerful statement.

    but sony could do the same spin and say uncharted 2 sold more than Halo wars , Banjo and Splinter cell combined.

    it's pointless fanboy baiting for games sites and simple marketing spin for investers

  • Steroyd #38 2 years ago

    So apart from uncharted 2 I can honestly say those games are not very good to play, which is why they did not sell well. Basically they only sold to PS3 loyalists, not people interested in good games.

    You do know these sales are USA only right?

    What sales figure would you consider as "selling well" the Uncharted franchise has sold a 4.5 million which is very good, can't expect every "selling well" game to achieve 10m+ sales.

  • jarek98 #39 2 years ago

    I understand it this way: on Xbox 360 there is one very good game, on PS3 you actually have a choice.

  • AnsemsApprentice #40 2 years ago

    Metacritic doesn't prove a game is good or bad... Anyway I think it was pretty childish of him to say something like that, I don't even care but if that is one of the big guys at Microsoft, tis pretty sad. E3 soon anyway, gamers unite!

    It'll be like parent trap, we get the guy from Microsoft and the guy from Sony to have dinner together, and then it'll all be fine I swear it. We would have the Swiss army knife of game consoles, azzah! (I think all of the games mentioned are the equivalent of crappy blockbusters, all flash no substance)
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 10:05

  • HisDudness #41 2 years ago

    Would be funny if Sony responded by using Japanese sales to show that some obscure "meanwhile in Japan" title can outsell the entire Xbox library there...

    Anyway, I think we are well past the point in this generation that single console owners are envious of each others' games. If I were to confine myself entirely to Sony exclusives, there would be little time for anything else. I can only imagine it's the same for the other side.

    And both these jokers already lost their lunch money to Nintendo.

  • des #42 2 years ago

    Uh oh,truth hurts...

    I'm simply amassed how easy SDF can be riled up...kinda sad for Sony though,hundreds of millions $$$ poured into those titles and nobody seems to care
    It doesn't tell much about those Sony titles but it does say something about Halo 3...

    People really really like Halo 3.

  • DoctorFraud #43 2 years ago

    @kj66246

    Using metacritic to quantify a games quality is about a valid as me quoting a telephone directory as my list of close and personal friends.

    Retards and platform specific (biased) reviews skewing results are what you will find at metacritic, nothing more. It just so happens that retards lies and bias are the things that Sony and its PS3 excell at, hence the scores. It certainly isnt because of the games.

  • Spydy #44 2 years ago

    The best thing Sony can do is just come out with other unrelated spurious comments at E3 that also mean absolutely nothing to anyone.

  • NotSoSlim #45 2 years ago

    Still amazes me how people still use the no good games argument on PS3 as a way to say its games are retards or morons

    Greenberg is a douche who can only boast about US numbers as that's where 360 is strongest...never says anything about the slim halving the 360s install base

    Anyway E3 soon

  • Steroyd #46 2 years ago

    Using metacritic to quantify a games quality is about a valid as me quoting a telephone directory as my list of close and personal friends.

    Oh please do tell us what you think of Wii play.

  • chrisjm #47 2 years ago

    The choice being buy an xbox? :p

  • KayJay #48 2 years ago

    @ DoctorFraud - "Using metacritic to quantify a games quality"
    Perhaps you are right, but it certianly gives a good indication that they are not as you say "BAD". Perhaps not great, perhaps not amazing but certianly not "BAD".

  • GamesConnoisseur #49 2 years ago

    This got me thinking, even if the comments that this refers only to sales in USA and where x360 installed consoles is double that of PS3. Even allowing that, still doesn't account for the wide gap in term of the attach rate?

    Are there a truth in the belief that a good number of PS3 installed are used purely as HD home media? As that would help accounts for the gap far more than the advantages of coming on the market first?

    What about the views that a good number of the earlier/older X360 sold have since been made obsolete due to RROD and would actually be much less than the double installed base advantage? Then the disparity of the attach rate is made much worse!

    Or perhaps in the end..... there is simply no mystery, as the Yanks are even crazier when it's come to Halo and it will just sells and sells and explains all this!

  • TopKatt #50 2 years ago

    Awwwww, I feel kinda bad for MS that they have to go back almost three years to find a game to boast about. I hope they have another hit game soon, I really do.

  • DonnieDarko333 #51 2 years ago

    Teafiend....they might be sequels but they didn't look or play the same, did they? They were totally different...i personally feel whatever Halo you play...you've played all of em...not different enough!

  • barkertron #52 2 years ago

    Why not cut out and keep this handy time-saving post?

    "This proves conclusively that my Xbox360/PS3 is better than PS3/Xbox360. All Xbox360/PS3 owners are total tards. Halo/Uncharted is the shit, you fanboys with the other console are just jealous. I have played all Xbox/PS3 exclusives and they are all shit whereas all PS3/Xbox exclusives are fookin great."

    Please delete as appropriate. Now you can happily skip past the idiots and read the comments that actually have something interesting to say, rather than slogging through the same tired flamewar nonsense by people who actually think they have some kind of affiliation with an enormous multinational corporation who couldn't give less of a shit about any of us.

  • jag10 #53 2 years ago

    the more quality titles a system has. the more spread out the sales be. if there's only one good game to play all year then obviously sales are going to be higher for that one game.

    God of war 3 sold more than splinter cell.
    uncharted 2 has sold more than alan wake.

  • King_Nimrod #54 2 years ago

    It is certainly true that attach rate of the PS3 is smaller than the 360's. Sony really need to put more effort into advertising new franchises if they want to equal the classics sales wise.

    Gran Turismo is by far the most popular sony exclusive and has been a flagship title for them just as halo has been for microsoft, and has done very well sales wise.......It'll be interesting to see how many PS3 gamers it attracts.

  • makeamazing #55 2 years ago

    I dont see the point of this type of console waving. Yes this game has sold lots, well done, its very impressive (it really is). But then you could compare other games with other PS3 games and find they havent sold so well, i mean how well is splinter cell and alan wake selling (I dont know, its just a hyperfetical (sp) question).

    In the games industry you are only as good as your last game, MS have basically dumped on the PC gamers (flight sim, age of empires both gone, other key titles having no pc games), there releases this year have been alittle lightweight (I am sure others may disagree), but what i am trying to say is... your only as good as your current year... so work on that, and not passed glories, as thats where Sony went wrong (and hopefully learnt their lesson).

  • NotSoSlim #56 2 years ago

    So as Gran Turismo will outsell all those games in Japan alone, how is the popularity over estimated?

    Prologue is at 4million which was with a much smaller install base so your point has no foundation really
    Edited by 2 at 10/06/10 @ 13:02

  • King_Nimrod #57 2 years ago

    @mickey except they aren't are they? Yes some xbox exclusives sell very well, but most of them are pretty close in overall sales. That statement about forza and GT is just opinion. Prologue sold over 3 million, and that was just a big demo, so clearly GT is still very popular. "The 360 is the "true gamers" console of choice this gen (like ps2 last) with something for everyone" well I think sony have been the best for offering variety among their exclusives.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 13:00

  • ignatiusjreilly #58 2 years ago

    The 360 is the "true gamers" console of choice

    This is the stupidest phrase on the internet. http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOxY_nHd...

  • Steroyd #59 2 years ago

    GT5 will not sell anywhere near reach, in the long wait gt has been superseeded by other titles in the genre forza,grid etc..

    So hypothetically if GT5 matches Halo 3 in terms of overall sales, that doesn't matter because there are already other titles that are better than it despite selling less?

    *smirk*

  • J_C_X #60 2 years ago

    I think Uncharted 2 is the most over-rated game in history. Is it any wonder why looking back Arkham Asylum and Demon's Souls cleaned up all the games of 2009 awards.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 13:20

  • ignatiusjreilly #61 2 years ago

    Each to his own. I think Arkham Asylum was the most over-rated game of last year, but plenty of people loved it.

  • Ryze #62 2 years ago

    Sony can thank themselves for all of this fanboy crap, as they've really set the highest bar over the years with some of their nonsense.

    It's a given that everyone's going to have a go and poke fun in retrospect given how the last 5 years have turned out.

    It's been pretty funny to watch. Funny and expensive. Damn.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 13:45

  • Darren #63 2 years ago

    Halo 3 might have outsold those six games but I personally enjoyed the majority of those PS3 games far more than that disappointing sequel which pretty much killed off any enthusiam I had for the series!!! :p

    Halo: Combat Evolved was awesome though and none of the sequels have come close to capturing the atmosphere and scale of that game. I still remember the day I saw the demo running on an Xbox pod in GAME and how my jaw dropped when I saw and played it for the first time. It was the game that sold the Xbox to me.

  • Mr.Afroman #64 2 years ago

    It's a shame that the Sony exclusives haven't sold massively (although they have done quite respectively) I blame it on the marketing team at Sony as apart from the recent PS3 slim adverts i've only seen Heavy Rain adverts and a few Uncharted 2 adverts and they showed little to no real gameplay which is pretty stupid imo.

  • sfp_noodle #65 2 years ago

    "I think Uncharted 2 is the most over-rated game in history"

    Similarly, I think Halo 3 and its predecessors are the most over-rated games on the planet. I mean, I enjoy blasting people in Halo 3 from time to time, but in all honesty, multiplatform shooters such as Battlefield Bad Company 2 have surpassed it. As much as I despise Modern Warfare 2, that too has far more people playing it than Halo. What Greenberg failed to mention is that COD4 knocked Halo 3 of its 2 month long perch at the top of Xbox Live most played charts effortlessly. It only regained it when World at War was released a year later and the user base was split between World at War players and COD4 players.

    Since Halo 3 the numbers have been far lower. Halo Wars barely managed 3 million and ODST managed only a little better than that. A lot of people fell for the hype when it came to Halo 3, as they did with Modern Warfare 2. I remember 8 years ago when Metal Gear Solid 2 was sold out everywhere because there was so much hype about it at the time. The game itself is the weakest in the series. Subsequent MGS games haven't sold anywhere near the same numbers as interest died down after the convoluted second installment.

    The Halo Reach beta hasn't done much to change that either. The MP might have a few new bells and whistles, but it's still the same old Halo. The franchise is starting to stagnate and needs fresh ideas. Bungie moving on from it is a good thing in my book, as it allows a new team to inject new ideas into the franchise.

    As much as I love my 360, If I had to choose between them it would definately be the PS3 for me. There's just a lot more value there. Free online and lots of variety between the games. More importantly, PS3 has a lot more single player stuff which I prefer over online gaming.

  • Dismiss #66 2 years ago

    I'm sure that Greenberg realizes that established franchises usually sell more than new ones in the same genre. Especially on consoles with a much larger user base. Wii Play pretty much blew everything else out of the water, what's the point?

  • Jayke #67 2 years ago

    I actually think that's an awesome stat. It's not just impressive, it's true. He never says anything about the quality of the games, only that they sold more, and as a business that's all investors need to hear. Sony can say they have the best looking most fun games and they all made a profit. Microsoft can say we sold more of almost every multiplatform and our exclusive stuff sells well.

    Course, he has to say this shit about games. Has everyone forgotten xbox 360 is now the console of controllerless games. they've seen the future and the future is lag! Ill be with Sony till my death. Ps1 dominated, best graphics best games, Ps2 dominated, best graphics best games, Ps3 dominates with the best graphics and best games.

    Do I really care if the anti-aliasing in red dead redemption makes the stuff that's 500 feet away look slightly blurrier on the ps3 compared to the 360 when I gain Infamous, Killzone, Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted, Little big planet, Resistance, last guardian, ratchet and clank, Motor storm, Grand turismo, God of War, flower, Socom,Heavy rain,ff14, mod nation racrs, mag , yakuza, the list goes on and on.

    360 has Halo, Mass Effect (awesome) Alan wake (flop) some second rate Japanese rpg's, crackdown, forza, shadow complex and gears of war.

    What do you want, choice or higher sales?

    Btw, I own over 60 ps3 games. I dunno why they don't sell so well I have them all, and 2 copies of LBP!
    I think there is still stigma that the ps3 is more expensive. I do understand the low attach rates though. take modern warfare. I know a lot of people who only own that one game. Same goes for Halo, They just own and buy one game. I have over sixty games, but there are millions of people who only have one or two games. Those people buy off pure hype. They aren't savvy as to looking into a game before hand. I see more Sony commercials than xbox.

    The thing is both consoles have an 8 game attachment rate. The difference is on the ps3 those 8 games have a lot more variety than the 360. On 360 everyone's got halo in there 8 games for instance.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 14:12

  • Fur_Cough #68 2 years ago

    We all know that that the people who tend to have to boast about how fantastic they are do so because inside they are really desperately insecure, attention seeking, stupid, lacking in self-awareness, need external validation because internally they're dysfuctional, and overall are slightly fucked up in a really sad way. You've really got to stop yourself talking the piss out of these people because it'll only make things worse.

    All the sadder when the boast amounts to "the hole that I piss out of is bigger than yours", rather than, shall we say, a more universally recognised metric.

  • danclarke #69 2 years ago

    Probably already been mentioned, but seems a strange comment to make shortly after Bungie has made the move to become a multiplatform dev?

  • fknetwork #70 2 years ago

    Just shows how sh*t PS3 games sell, what do you expect when you own a shit console like the PS3.

  • ignatiusjreilly #71 2 years ago

    @Fur Cough

    That's true in life, but in business boasting about how good you are is generally a smart move.

  • sfp_noodle #72 2 years ago

    "Just shows how sh*t PS3 games sell, what do you expect when you own a shit console like the PS3."

    I find it odd how you censored the word 'shit' the first time but not the second. Did your inner rage come out there? Are you insecure like Greenberg as well where you have to justify the console you represent by 'shitting' on the other? Grow up

  • laudy #73 2 years ago

    "what do you expect when you own a shit console like the PS3."

    Dunno, sometimes I expect to play games on it, sometimes I like to browse the shop, sometimes watch a flim with the missus. What I didn't expect was YLOD on my "fat" version. Got a slim recently; it's decent, oh no sorry, it's "sh*t" or "shit" depending on your attention to detail...

    Couldn't be bothered with the first bit of your post, as, in my opinion, sh*t games don't sell well. Shit consoles wouldn't sell that well either, the smell would be unbearable after a few hours of play ;)

  • RedSparrows #74 2 years ago

    Thread expectations:

    Mass fanboy idiocy
    Halo bashing
    Darren being a tool about Halo again ^^
    PS3 bashing

    = all met.

    GJ PEEPS

  • Acrid #75 2 years ago

    Wow, just Wow.

    All those PS3 games are better than Halo 3, it's a shame more people don't own a PS3 so they could play these really great games.

  • Doctor_What #76 2 years ago

    Interesting that Greenburg doesn't mention that PS3 sales are predicted to be 3.5m more than the 360 worldwide this year, or that the Wii is predicted to sell 7m more machines than the 360 this year (and that's considering a terrible slump for them!). Anyone would think that he was a completely partial judge, manipulating the numbers to make his company look good in face of difficult times.

    As Mr Churchill is reputed to have said: there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

  • DoctorFraud #77 2 years ago

    PS3 does not have better games. Fact. When you say PS3 has better games what you really mean is you prefer PS3 games.

    Many people prefer 360 exclusives over PS3 exclusives. Fact. The myth that only PS3 has good exclusives is fanboy drivel.

    Personally I only enjoyed 2 PS3 exclusives enough to own them, but own and regularly enjoy a large number of 360 exclusives.

  • Gaol #78 2 years ago

    @Redsparrows

    You missed that other expectation, generic 'I'm above it all' posts.

    Good job.

    Peep.

  • My1stLoveJak #79 2 years ago

    Funny, I own 5 of those 6 games, and I've played all of them. But what's this Halo 3 they're on about?

    OH. It's for Xbox...THAT'S why.

    @Nazo: LOL

  • nasanu #80 2 years ago

    And Brittany outsells Röyksopp, what of it?

  • TopKatt #81 2 years ago

    Oh great, now the effing Röyksopp fanboys are gonna kick off.

  • MerricK #82 2 years ago

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  • telboy007 #83 2 years ago

    Thanks Barkertron (#55)!

    This proves conclusively that my Xbox360 is better than PS3. All PS3 owners are total tards. Halo is the shit, you fanboys with the other console are just jealous. I have played all PS3 exclusives and they are all shit whereas all Xbox exclusives are fookin great.
    Edited by 2 at 10/06/10 @ 17:45

  • aba88oir #84 2 years ago

    Wonder why Microsoft didn't compare their biggest seller to those of Sony's? Because with Halo3 vs GT5P* the difference would have been far smaller, and with Halo 3 vs SingStar** they would have lost.


    * December 2009 - GT5P worldwide sales 4,65 million; [link url=http://w ww.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html
    ]http://ww w.polyphony.co.jp/english/list....[/link]

    ** April 28, 2008 - "SingStar brand have sold 12 million units across PAL territories, FIVE MILLION of which came in the 12-month period ended March 2008."; [link url=http://www.videogamer .com/news/singstar_sales_march_past_12_million_in_pal_territ ories.html
    ]http://ww w.videogamer.com/news/singstar_...[/link]
    December 3, 2009 - "SingStar Sales Hit 20 Million"; [link url=http://www.edge-online.com/news/singstar-sales-hit- 20-million
    ]http://ww w.edge-online.com/news/singstar...[/link]

  • Calgon #85 2 years ago

    *Breaking News*

    Fanboys will usually find any excuse to claim a game is overrated if its been well received on a rival platform to their favoured one(specifically between MS and Sony... Nintendo's offerings are sometimes thrown with praise to present a false image of objectivity in their persona).

    PS3 fanboys do overrate the exclusives though, it has to be said! :p

  • mgillespie #86 2 years ago

    However rather embarrassing for Aaron Greenberg is that every single PS3 game he mentioned is BETTER than the Halo franchise.

    All he has managed to do, is highlight how brainwashed American gamers are, and how quality and sales figures are totally unconnected.

    Not contempt with highlighting the stupidity of his followers, he goes one further by using ONLY NPD data, which only tracks US sales, which conveniently for him, is the only region where the Xbox brand is strongest and the PS3 brand the weakest. Had he looked at global numbers it would have painted a very different picture.

    Any sane person will look upon Greenberg's trash talking with the laughable contempt it deserves.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 18:45

  • makeamazing #87 2 years ago

    PS3 fanboys do overrate the exclusives though, it has to be said!

    I think if you want to be objective that could be said of any platform really.

    Me personally i like PS3 exclusives, not fussed about Xbox ones, and really dont like Wii games... but you know what, thats just an opinion and opinion doesnt equal fact, just like you stating that PS3 fanboys overate their exclusives... perhaps they just prefer them.

    I personally dont see why people go mad for Zelda or Mario (I really dont like the style of nintendo games), but i certainly dont have an issue with anyone who might like them. Sometimes you just have to understand different people like different things and leave it at that :)

  • des #88 2 years ago

    "Take the GTA4 announcement of 17 million sold across 3 platforms in 2 years."

    Normal people don't care about bu bu bu exclusive bullshit...people just buy games that they like...scary thing for fanboys

  • bioreit #89 2 years ago

    I'll take a piece of the "above it all" action, thanks.

    But the pedant in me can't let Aba88oir's "and with Halo 3 vs SingStar** they would have lost" comment slide without pointing out that the Singstar sales link he quotes from is for all Singstar titles across all past and present Sony consoles.

    If you're going to throw that kind of thing into the mix, you need to tot up all Halo: CE (Xbox, PC and Mac), Halo 2 (Xbox and PC again), Halo3, Halo Wars and Halo: ODST sales and then compare it to all Singstar sales across all platforms. A quick squiz at me old and (un)trusty friend Wikipedia seems to indicate sales in excess of 27 million for the whole franchise, quite a bit more than the "20 MILLION" Singstar sales you mention.

    Still, doesn't stop this whole disgrace of a comment from Greenberg being another example of selectively choosing figures which represent what you want them to. Should be a law against it, but then it would stop politicians and news outlets from having anything to say, I guess.

    On second thoughts, yeah, ban it. Fucking liars.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/10 @ 22:57

  • sfp_noodle #90 2 years ago

    Oh dear mickey please tell me minus halo 3 what game has sold 2 million in the opening weekend on the 360. Halo 3 was the exception. Rest assured it won't happen again as halo wars and odst proved. Reach will sell well. It will probably only ever sell just over half of what halo 3 sold though.

  • DoctorFraud #91 2 years ago

    "Reach will probably only ever sell just over half of what halo 3 sold though."

    You really do talk a right load of shit.

  • aba88oir #92 2 years ago

    @ bioreit: "But the pedant in me can't let Aba88oir's "and with Halo 3 vs SingStar** they would have lost" comment slide without pointing out that the Singstar sales link he quotes from is for all Singstar titles across all past and present Sony consoles."

    Note the dates and the sales between them:
    "April 28, 2008 - "SingStar brand have sold 12 million units across PAL territories, FIVE MILLION of which came in the 12-month period ended March 2008."
    December 3, 2009 - "SingStar Sales Hit 20 Million"

    5 million in PAL territories between March 2007 and March 2008. ~8 million worldwide (not an exact figure as the earlier figure didn't represent the worldwide sales) between March 2008 and December 2009. I think it's safe to say the figures represent the sales of recent entries of the franchise.