New reality for multi-platform sales
According to VGChartz.com, it looks like new game sales for multi-platform titles like 2010 World Cup FIFA from EA, Lost Planet 2 from Capcom and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands from Ubisoft are all selling better on the PS3 than 360. This has to be worrying the Xbox guys at Microsoft considering their argument all the way through the holidays was that games just sell better on the 360. It doesn’t look like it anymore and it’s not even from publishers or titles that traditionally do well on Playstation. Lost Planet did quite well on 360 and I have to think both the World Cup game being from EA and not Konami, and Prince of Persia had a 50-50 chance to do well on both platforms.
If Microsoft is holding off for Natal, it better come up with something big at E3 or I’m seeing this trend precipitating until they get a new console out.
Interestingly, God of War III has dropped to 63K sales at 2.5M cumulative. Maybe game sales are poor in general. ODST did 5.1M and is still doing 55K in sales and that was a luke warm filler title in the Halo franchise.
As for me, I just wrapped up my Shrek Forever After review for iPhone; don’t have much good to say about it. I heard the movie is also running on fumes as well but I’m a sucker for all things Shrek so I might actually try it.