Xbox 360 Gears of War 2 beats Sony PS3 LittleBigPlanet Sales
Filed under: Gaming | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 10, 2008 | 24 Comments
Looks like Microsoft has dealt the first blow to the Sony PS3 on the build up to the holiday season, as gears of War 2 has beaten LittleBigPlanet in games sales in the UK charts. As we well know both titles are exclusive to their consoles.
The shocking thing was LittleBigPlanet even had a couple of day’s head start; it was released on November 5, with GoW 2 being launched on the 7th. The sales data has been taken from the GfK Chart-Track.
Gears of War 2 entered the charts straight in at No.1, with Little Big Planet entering in at No.4. This has to be a shock for Sony, as they have done a lot of marketing on their new title, but it seems that gamers want action instead of taking control of a rag doll.
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Well its Gears 2 . A superb game as I saw my friend playing it in his Xbox 360. And my PS3 which I own is what i use for playing games currently. I need to be still playing great exclusives by 2011-12. I will never buy xbox 360 for playing gears 2. not a penny goes to 360 S/W. Let the PC version release or PS3 port. All multiplatforms like COD4, assassin’s creed, GTA 4,…i opted ps3 over 360.
I’ll be honest, Ive got a PS3 and would have love to have a go at Gears 2. LBP has little appeal. I also noticed that Amazon have reduced LBP by 50% in price already?!! Come on Sony - sort it out and get some must have games.
Wow whoever thinks that americans are gun crazy and they will buy GOW2 more, thats redculous. I played GOW1 online last year for a long time, and i was lucky to run into somone who wasnt british every 2 weeks, but other than that its england and austrailea or w/e its spelled like, that make up most of XBL and some of america… so go fist yourselves you arrogant british douches
First of all, some of the excuses you PS3 fanboys have made as to the reason why GOW2 will outsell LBP is hilarious. Just accept the defeat already. Gears 2 will also be a classic, it won’t die, I’m positive it will outlive the rag-doll game by a very long shot. Gears 2 dwarfs both Resistance 2 and LBP in sales, and continues to do great after being out for just a little over a month. Roughly for every 1 copy of Resistance 2 sold there is 4 copies of GOW 2 sold. I’m not making it up, go look it up, it puts Resistance 2 to shame. Granted PS3 still has some decent game titles, MGS4 being a great game. But rumors continue to spread that it might be coming to the 360. If so, I can’t wait to see how much you Ps3 fanboys cry. And with the news that next year 360 will have Resident Evil 5 and Final Fantasy XIII just shows that the 360 is taking away even more great titles from the PS3 and Nintendo (Not to mention Sony and Xbox losing Fatal Frame franchise to Nintendo). Square Enix, a huge Sony Playstation partner in the past has even released 360 exclusive games. What’s that say to you? The Ps3 is dying, face it. Sony just laid off 16,000 workers, google it. Good thing Sony has their PSP and Ps2 selling well… it’s so funny that the PS2 is still selling almost as well as the PS3, then again Ps2 was an amazing system.