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Will Metal Gear Solid 4 really boost PS3 sales? Posted by XanTium | 3-12-2007 23:22 EST

From gamesradar.com: It's been the rallying cry of Sony fanboys from the beginning. Things might be bad right now, but you just wait until Metal Gear Solid 4. Then we'll see the PlayStation 3 rise up to conquer, just like the PS2 did, and you'll all be sorry for doubting it. But will we really? There's a very good argument that Metal Gear's release won't make the blindest bit of difference to the PS3's fortunes as a format, however good it turns out to be (and there's every chance that it will be brilliant). The reason? Things just don't work that way any more. The industry has changed a lot since Metal Gear Solid became a killer app for the PSone. It's changed almost beyond recognition in just the last twelve months in fact. Two major differences separate the way things are now from the way thing were then: The cost of making games and the kind of people who play them. Full Story: gamesradar.com (3 pages)

[Chancer]

I don't think anyone should base buying a PS3 (or any system) on simply one game or piece of software. It needs to be a balanced decision. I know that some people do buy a system and this will occur in this instance, but the impact would have been bigger if it had been launched with MGS. I doubt it will be sell systems on the scale expected.

[the_nerdy]

I've never played the game, and have no intentions to do so.  I am A sony fan and I like how they developed the system, but why pay more for the ames when I can get them on the X360 for cheaper.

The only thing that is going to force me into buying a PS3 is if Final Faltasy ever comes out for it. But if it is Multi System, I will go with whatever saves me the most money.

If Sony was smart. They would allready have a $199 system and just take the loss.  I would want to get more systems into everyones home rather then trying to not loose so much money on the console.

If you got the money, just take the loss.  This would deffinitly pay off.

This would at least make an awesome X-mas special for everyone and it would be like a whole new launch again, except this time, Sony could produce a crap load and actually sell them all

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(the_nerdy @ Dec 4 2007, 11:29 AM)

I've never played the game...

No one has, unless you're talking about older iterations of the franchise

QUOTE(the_nerdy @ Dec 4 2007, 11:29 AM)

why pay more for the ames when I can get them on the X360 for cheaper.

First of all, How exactly do you pay more for PS3 games? they're the same price as the 360 games. Not to mention the whole point of the article is that MGS is a PS3 exclusive that they hope will sell more consoles. No amount of money will buy the game on 360 if it's a PS3 exclusive.

QUOTE(the_nerdy @ Dec 4 2007, 11:29 AM)

If Sony was smart. They would allready have a $199 system and just take the loss.  I would want to get more systems into everyones home rather then trying to not loose so much money on the console.

If you got the money, just take the loss.  This would deffinitly pay off.

This would at least make an awesome X-mas special for everyone and it would be like a whole new launch again, except this time, Sony could produce a crap load and actually sell them all

First of all Sony is already a quarter of a Billion dollars in debt from the amount of money they've lost on PS3 sales from the price hit that they're currently taking... cutting it to $199 would move systems but it would double their debt and put them in a position where they would have to sell something along the lines of 30-50 games and accessories per console to make up the difference... that doesn't sound like a very smart move to me.

even the $399 price point is putting the hurt on them since the only reason they did it is due to threats of non-support from 3rd party developers worried that their games wouldn't sell on such an expensive console.

When you're losing money on the console you have to shoot for a sweet spot price point, you don't want the console to sell TOO well because if it does you're going to undercut yourself out of business, the loss leader model as it stands is risky business and is a big part of why companies like Atari and Sega no longer make consoles.

[telo{+}]

Lol, banking the entire success of the platform on one game. No matter how good it is, its going to be near impossible to live up an expectation like that.

Halo3 was a mover for 360. No doubt. It did amazing as far as sales go. I own a copy. But, it was never forced to be the make or break success of its platform. There are just too many other great 360 games out.


I seem to remember some expression about eggs and baskets,

[throwingks]

QUOTE(Chancer @ Dec 4 2007, 06:34 AM)

I don't think anyone should base buying a PS3 (or any system) on simply one game or piece of software.

My father bought our 1st system...

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Dec 4 2007, 04:26 PM)

... Atari ...

... solely for Asteroids. He went shopping for the real thing, the arcade machine, and he was talked into the Atari instead.
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[naranjo]

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I don't think anyone should base buying a PS3 (or any system) on simply one game or piece of software

Tell me, I bouth the xbox 1 for "Halo, combat envolved", xbox 360 for halo 3 and Dreamcast for "Soul Calibur"

[Kr0n1k]

This is a pretty ridiculous article. MGS4 is not going to sell 4 million PS3's. It probably won't even sell a million. There needs to be more than one game coming out that is going to intrigue audiences. Tekken, GT5, Killzone 2, SOCOM, and some other great looking games and software like LittleBigPlanet and Home all look to make the PS3 a more appealing purchase over the next 6 months. I am personally struggling with buying a PS3, just because I haven't seen any set-in-stone release dates for any of these games. Sony's biggest mistake this time around was the continuous tinkering with the hardware, I don't think it was finalized until they started producing the units. It really hurt alot of their 3rd party support, and as we've seen, has caused numerous delays for ALL of Sony's major titles. Its been disapointing, but hopefully its not going anywhere, because for some reason, I have a feeling the PC is gonna get first dibs on my $500.