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Not being in the top 10 during holiday period doesn't mean flop.

But it is interesting to see a lot 3rd parties doing proportionally better on the PS4. Maybe Xbox Owners are more conservative (Halo, Fifa, Madden, COD).



And im surprised TitanFall is no where to be found =(
( at 73 in USA =( )



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teigaga said:
Not being in the top 10 during holiday period doesn't mean flop.

But it is interesting to see a lot 3rd parties doing proportionally better on the PS4. Maybe Xbox Owners are more conservative (Halo, Fifa, Madden, COD).

That is no surprise. From last gen we knew this.



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Ruler said:
well MS sold 24% less consoles but 40% less software than the PS4, the December 20th numbers say.
I think a lot of people who bought the xbox because of its lower price cant afford as much games like MS excepted.

lol

the only reason is because the X1 did horribly before the begin of the holidays, whereas the PS4 already had a good install base.


That means that people who bought a PS4 in say July got themselves a few games and finished them before the holidays started and can now buy a few more games. X1 gamers who bought their console during Black Friday got themselves a few games and they are still playing some of them.
Why buy games like Far Cry 4, Dragon Age Inquisition, GTA V at full price, when you just recently got your X1 with Sunset Overdrive and CoD?

You can't expect any new customer to buy the whole library of good games on day one. You need to give them weeks, months, years and often times it can't be done at all since time is the major issue here. The earlier you adopt a console, the more time you can spend with it.



Barozi said:

the only reason is because the X1 did horribly before the begin of the holidays, whereas the PS4 already had a good install base.


That means that people who bought a PS4 in say July got themselves a few games and finished them before the holidays started and can now buy a few more games. X1 gamers who bought their console during Black Friday got themselves a few games and they are still playing some of them.
Why buy games like Far Cry 4, Dragon Age Inquisition, GTA V at full price, when you just recently got your X1 with Sunset Overdrive and CoD?

You can't expect any new customer to buy the whole library of good games on day one. You need to give them weeks, months, years and often times it can't be done at all since time is the major issue here. The earlier you adopt a console, the more time you can spend with it.

Spot on.  When I make my XB1 purchase it is going to be with a couple great games from the first year that are down to 20 bucks.  Then when I get through those some of the more recent releases will also have dropped.  I shouldn't have to pay full price for a game on the console in the first year I have it since I am not buying it in launch year.



Barozi said:
certainly not. Just because there are less games appearing at the top doesn't mean that the sales are worse.

attach ratio (games per console)
PS4: 4.45 (official numbers, including digital sales 4.42)
X1: 4.31
WiiU: 4.73 (at the same time last year 3.58)

miniscule difference between X1 and PS4 (which both launched at nearly the same time) and almost 1 game more than WiiU at the same time last year.

Devs do not sell ratios, they sell games, in the absolute sense.

Let's say you have a market size of 100 games a week for all consoles combined, you know that 5 will be sold on PS4, 3 on XB1 and 2 on the Wii U, maybe each XB1 owner bought almost as many games as their PS4/Wii U counterparts, however the market on this machine is already satturated in therms of AAA titles... so big companies will start to look at ways to adjust their releases to not overflow the market on the machine(s) with smaller install bases, because they know that game X will prevent sales from game Y if it's released on XB1, because of market saturation.

This is why less titles will be released on a console with a much smaller install base, no matter how easy it would be to port them, especially if MS put any kind of barrier in place.



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It's actually had some pretty decent sales. Nice job misreading the data tho