Only thing Move's got left to do is wave goodbye. It died for me early with Heavy Rain: Move Edition, a game built on gesture-based controls. A perfect fi t, surely? No. It reduced control and comfort while adding nothing bar an extra thing to hold.
One stores outage's first week showed little PS3 sales impact, but that thereafter his store had seen "an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead."
Edge's list of sources telling the same tale continues and ranges from corporate chains to indie resellers. Not a huge surprise, but grim news, any way you spin it.
The magazine corroborates its ad hoc phone surveys with actual sales data, citing UK selling trends that shows recent spikes in Xbox 360 sales for multi-platform titles (like Call of Duty: Black Ops) and commensurate PS3 sales declines.
Sales data aside, the phone call claims may or may not be indicative of broader trends, and Edge admits the small sample's hardly scientific. What's more, they surmise it's still just online-fixated gamers jumping ship. But as we know, the PlayStation Network has (or should we say had?) some 77 million members worldwide. It's anyone's guess how many of those are fixated enough to part ways over the three-weeks-and-counting outage.
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