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kowenicki said:
Acevil said:
The personal attacks on both sides is interesting.

My comment to this whole thing is, congratulations Xbox One fans who are cheering on beating a dead horse in a race.

For those who don't get it, the dead horse is the Wii U. I would have went with a crippled child, but dead horse works in two ways....


did you say that last gen when you wanted so badly for the ps3 to finish second?  It never quite got there... but it was close.


Nope? Infact I wanted Sony PS3 to end in third since about launch of the console, they deserved it for the horrible horrible PR from the Executive Officers of the company. It made them humbled a bit, something I fear will happen towards the end of this generation.

Also Add: Also wanted so badly? Now I want to know who the hell did you mean? 



 

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Where's the creator of this thread?
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=189528&page=1#



I love it when these too defend their console of choice, their tears taste so sweet



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.



I never understood how people could think multiplat games wouldn't boost the XBO. Obviously the effect won't be as great as the PS4 without exclusive marketing, but to say it's not a selling point is ridiculous.

Also here's a thread right here talking about that: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=187227&page=1#



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TheGoldenBoy said:
I never understood how people could think multiplat games wouldn't boost the XBO. Obviously the effect won't be as great as the PS4 without exclusive marketing, but to say it's not a selling point is ridiculous.

Also here's a thread right here talking about that: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=187227&page=1#


The thing is, are people gonna just read the first couple of posts, and say that is what everyone thinks. Infact that thread has a lot of people saying the opposite. 



 

Acevil said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
I never understood how people could think multiplat games wouldn't boost the XBO. Obviously the effect won't be as great as the PS4 without exclusive marketing, but to say it's not a selling point is ridiculous.

Also here's a thread right here talking about that: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=187227&page=1#

The thing is, are people gonna just read the first couple of posts, and say that is what everyone thinks. Infact that thread has a lot of people saying the opposite. 

Very true that some people will just assume that everyone believes it without reading the thread. But, the OP should still be called out on it.



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.



We shall see if any big multi that are not a FPS pushes X1 at all, i doubt it.  Especially out side of Murica and the island.

kowenicki said:
Anyone saying that big mutiplats wont push ANY Xbox ONE consoles is an utter fool and shouldn't be listened to.

Im 100% sure same applies to most of what you have ever said about PS4 vs X1.





Seece said:

So over the summer we've had to endure plenty of people here stating that multiplats won't and do not sell XB1's, they all go to PS4 instead. This is despite the evidence we have that multiplats have sold very well on XB1 already. But here today we have even more proof that multiplats do indeed shift XB1's.

"It outsold Xbox One hardware by two consoles to one, but it wasn't a bad week for Microsoft either, who also posted a significant sales hike week-on-week."

Destiny gave PS4 a whopping 300% boost, far more than XB1, (and that isn't just because it was marketed with it, it would have done it without it).

Nobody (sane) has ever disputed multiplats will give PS4 a better and bigger boost. But as you can see, a game that was marketed with PS4, has given XB1 a a significant sales boost as well.

We can take a look at Madden as well, the ball is in the other court on this one as it's XB1 that got the exclusive marketing. PS4 still outsold the XB1 counterpart, but it still boosted XB1 sales to double in the US.

Game marketed on XB1? Boosts sales
Game marketed on PS4? Boosts sales
Game generally marketed? Boosts sales.

Stop with this unfounded and stupid myth simply because you want it as a bullet point as to how XB1 won't sell well/beat WiiU this holiday.


Assassins Creed: Unity, Call of Duty: AW, Aliens, Grand Theft Auto V, Dragon Age, Far Cry, Project Cars, The Crew, Evil Within, Just Dance, Skylanders and more will shift XB1's this holiday.

Wasnt there a sale going on for xbox ones that give a free game including destiny during the week of the games launch? Im pretty sure the deal would have encouraged a lot of gamers when making a first time purchase of a current gen console (aside from carrying over their profiles). Its sales as of now are good to me but i dont think the company is happy about it, the deals and crazy offers theyve been giving in less than a year clearly proves it (great deals imo). They are really trying to win back US and UK this holidays, phil basically stressed his eagerness to win the npds this holiday, so i guess its a reason why we see the numerous xbox one deals. Its quite bad if a game you paid for exclusive marketing/content/deals sells more on the rivaling console though. In every game coming this holiday, theres a bunch of people waiting for each one to buy a console with the game, be it on PS4/X1. Also, as long as there are similar deals like the one between destinys launch for xb1, xb1 sales will always go up