US Video Game sales for May 2007

What about the Gameboy Advance? Is it still fighting for its life? Anyway Sony needs to do a two part plan this September if they hope to sell a decent amount of PS3's, enough to make Square Enix happy with the outcome of Final Fantasy XIII, otherwise Square Enix will port it to the 360 or they will make all future releases multi-platform. This September Sony should cut the price by as much as possible. $100 minimum. With the triple Sony threat of Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, and Warhawk coming this September and Socom and Drake's Fortune and MGS4, come out this year, people will feel inclined to buy it. Heck they could even cut the price in August and have Lair to help them.

Yeah Sony is in a dilenma, publishers don't want to release exclusives for it since it has a low userbase, but people won't buy it if we don't have the exclusives. About the price drop $100 would help somewhat, I saw a poll and about 50,000 people were polled. The poll was if the price was dropped to $500 would you buy it. 70% said yes, 20% said if there was a must-have game out, 5% Still to expensive, 5% said Not a chance in hell, even if the price was $100. But anyway the PS2 is still outselling the 360, yeah it's outselling the PS3 even more, but it's good it's outselling them. Whoever purchases the PS2 is unlikely to purchase a PS3 or Xbox 360 THIS year. So when they decide to upgrade the PS3 will be in a stronger position, cheaper, broad games selection, and some games won't be possible on the Xbox 360 thanks to Blu-Ray and the CPU. However when they play it this year they will get into Sony's exclusive franchises: The Getaway, God of War, Gran Turismo, Hot Shots Golf, Jak and Daxter, Killzone, Ratchet & Clank, Shadow of the Colossus, Singstar, Sly Cooper, SOCOM, and Twisted Metal to name a few. Plus if Konami and Square Enix remain loyal we will have MGS4 and FFXIII. They will want to continue playing those games. That is a huge factor for Sony. Most of what Nintendo has are E rated kid friendly minigames while all Microsoft has are mostly dozens of M rated FPS.

I know it's like you said in one of your articles, Sony can't survive on first party titles. Though they do have a nice handful of skilled second party developers that have either signed exclusive contracts or are extremely loyal to Sony such as Insomniac Games, Guerrilla Games, and Factor 5. The best thing that can happen for Sony is that the Wii will turn out to be a fad. Alot of people are saying it is, but that's what they said about Pokemon and the DS as well. Alot of people that own Wii say that the Wii is boring after a month, and I have to agree with them. I have both and I prefer the PS3. So my Wii is collecting the dust my PS3 churns up until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is out for Wii next week. I thought it could be cool if EA did it right with the Wii Remote=Wand. But yeah I haven't touched my Wii since I finished Zelda at the end of April. I was excited about Mario Party 8 but it turned out to be a bummer so I didn't get it. Paper Mario isn't my thing and I'm not a fan of those M games like Resident Evil coming out on Wii.

Well I don't know, fads usually go for about a year. But the problem with the Wii IS the party games, they are fun if you have friends over but if you don't there isn't much software to play. The Wii's upcoming releases need to be top of the class, especially Galaxies and Brawl, to keep intrest in the Wii and prevent it becoming a fad. ALL of Sony's titles this fall NEED to be MUST-HAVE if Sony wants to have a chance of picking up sales.