BraLoD said:
Mario Kart got revived on the Switch, it was already 3 years on the market when it came, though that doesn't take any credit away from it, if it was good enough to interest the new audience on Switch and become successful on both platforms, well, that's great. It's not the same thing, tho. The Last of Us moved its audience to the PS4, it released June 2013 if I recall it right, and the PS4 released November that year to steal PS3 thunder, the game didn't have half a year and its console was already not the focus anymore. It still sold 7m copies on its first year there regardless, in just one year being most of this time on a platform from last generation. Then with that one year came the PS4 version and completely moved its audience from PS3 to there. We are talking about a very different scenario here, TLoU legs moved platforms, exactly like GTAV, most of its potential sales moved platforms and picked the game there. About your personal experience with people double dipping, mine is that neither me nor none of my friends that utterly loved it have got it again on the PS4, none. That's just it, personal experiences. About the game price... that doesn't matter in the slightest, we are talking about sales here, and even then, PlayStation games have the healthy price drop as any other non-Nintendo games, it's absolutely normal for an almost 6 years old game to be a lot cheaper today than on release. About its 17m sales... yes it would not reach it without the PS4, but that doesn't take away any of the game success from it. If it was hold to release on PS4 day 1 as Nintendo did with Zelda, maybe it could have sold that, being a fresh game on the new platform with a stellar reception, instead of a game a lot of people had already played last gen. Did Zelda ever sell this well being on a single platform? No. So should I take that away from it because its also on the Wii U? No. No matter how you look at it, TLoU sales naturally moved from systems, cutting short any of its sales because of that is doing the game a massive injustice. |
I don't mean to offend you here, but this is the biggest load of nonsense I've heard on this site in a while. Your acting as if everyone literally migrated instantly from ps360 to ps4. The fact is most early adopters are going to be big Sony fans that in all likely hood already had the last of us on ps3. Just because it released on ps4 does not mean the entire potential audience moved to ps4. At this point the ps4 hadn't even sold 20 million yet. And most 3rd party games were still releasing on ps360.
I call bullshit on none of your friends rebuying the game. Either you have very few friends or your lying. If you said very few of your friends double dipped that would be more believable.
Of course price matters the whole point of this thread is that Sony are entering Nintendo levels with there ips. Nintendo games don't go down in price Sony games do. That has a big impact on sales. If Sony games could do these sales at full price then they would be on Nintendo's level.
The paragraph about Zelda doesn't make much sense. I don't know what your trying to say here.
I'm not trying to take away from the last of us. i m just saying the 17 million figure doesnt show the entire picture. Also the last of us is only one tiny bit of my argument. Probably the least important part of my argument.
