arachnid15 said: As others have stated, I find it baffling that people believe that multiplats will not move Xbox One's. Obviously at this stage they move more PS4's but that certainly does not mean they do nothing for the Xbox One. That is just silly. When talking about consoles people love to focus on exclusives. I agree they are important. For me my fondness for Sony exclusives sway my decision to their consoles. But the fact is that 90% of the games I play are multiplats and the same can be said for most people I know here in the real world. Multiplats are very important and move consoles for both Sony and Microsoft. |
This is all true.
However, it does spell a significant storm cloud for Microsoft. We're at or beyond a 1M sales gap in the US, and nobody sane would argue that it won't definitely be beyond 1M by September NPD results. As this gap continues to expand (the early 2015 releases will only reinforce this headed out of the holiday season as well!), the 'friend/family/networking' effect will get larger and larger.
In that way, we may start to see a greater significance in multiplat gaps as time goes on.
I predict that the inertia given to PS4 coming through September will be significant, affecting console purchases through the holidays by extension. For every person getting a PS4 or XB1 in September, they will have friends, family, and online friends in social media who will be told about their purchase, and influenced pro/con by word of mouth. It's statistically significant to the situation at hand that MANY more of these word of mouth exchanges will be coming from a new PS4 owner than an XB1 owner.