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Forums - Sales Discussion - April 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1 (280k), Mario Kart: 550k

DonFlamenco said:

80-90% of current switch owners will buy MK8 whereas only roughly 3% of PS4 owners will by Persona 5.

Sony has great exclusive games but they usually have an attach rate of less than 5-10%.

In fact, not a single PS4 exclusive to date has an attach rate of more than 15%.

Hell, only 4 out of every 100 PS4 owners bought HZD! (2.61m sales to 60 million consoles is only a 4% attach rate)

People that say PS4 has sold so well because of it's exclusives make me laugh.

It sells so well because it's got the best versions of all multi platform games... Until this fall anywa

Its always been like that for every non Nintendo console for exclusives. PS4 is selling great cause they have something for everyone, small games, niche games, big AAA games, best marketing, etc 



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Maybe NPD got pushed back a week :D



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DonFlamenco said:

80-90% of current switch owners will buy MK8 whereas only roughly 3% of PS4 owners will by Persona 5.

Sony has great exclusive games but they usually have an attach rate of less than 5-10%.

In fact, not a single PS4 exclusive to date has an attach rate of more than 15%.

Hell, only 4 out of every 100 PS4 owners bought HZD! (2.61m sales to 60 million consoles is only a 4% attach rate)

People that say PS4 has sold so well because of it's exclusives make me laugh.

It sells so well because it's got the best versions of all multi platform games... Until this fall anyway.

Yea, sure.  That's why it's selling so well.  So, again, why did the PS1 and PS2, and even the $499 PS3, sell so well?  Cause the PS1 got multiplats that were on par with the N64.  And I guess it can't be because of exclusives like FF7 that only have a 10% attach rate.  The PS2 had inferior multiplats.  And the PS3 had inferior multiplats for the first year or two of its lifespan.  Lol, if you honestly think that's the only reason it sells so well, you are going to be sadly awakened when the Scorpio does little to put a dent in the PS4's lead over the XBO.

You see, using attach rates on a system that has sold so well is really misleading.  You can make it seem like a game sold poorly, yet it sold 3M-6M, even 10M, which is great for a game.  Especially a more niche title, which the PS4 has plenty of those that have done 1M+.  And everyone of those games that can only be played on the PS4 just brings more and more attention to it.  More and more people.  More and more HW sales. 

People like a varied library, with varied exclusives.  And the PS4 has that in spades.



Maybe MS had such bad results they can't really spin a positive pr. Nintendo might be satisfied with their Mario Kart pr and Sony have sold less then switch would rather say nothing. Although they're very quiet even when they win.

Hopefully I'm wrong and they all release pr tomorrow.



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DonFlamenco said:

80-90% of current switch owners will buy MK8 whereas only roughly 3% of PS4 owners will by Persona 5.

Sony has great exclusive games but they usually have an attach rate of less than 5-10%.

In fact, not a single PS4 exclusive to date has an attach rate of more than 15%.

Hell, only 4 out of every 100 PS4 owners bought HZD! (2.61m sales to 60 million consoles is only a 4% attach rate)

People that say PS4 has sold so well because of it's exclusives make me laugh.

It sells so well because it's got the best versions of all multi platform games... Until this fall anyway.

Wow someone sounds very angry. Relax dude. It's just video games. 

 

As for mario kart selling so well, it's probably because there's not much available to play right now since it just came out two months ago. As for PS4, it has hundoof games to pick from, not 5-10 like Switch currently has. So it's not that hard to see why MK8 sold as well as it did. 

 

But you knew that already 😉



UltimateGamer1982 said:
DonFlamenco said:

80-90% of current switch owners will buy MK8 whereas only roughly 3% of PS4 owners will by Persona 5.

Sony has great exclusive games but they usually have an attach rate of less than 5-10%.

In fact, not a single PS4 exclusive to date has an attach rate of more than 15%.

Hell, only 4 out of every 100 PS4 owners bought HZD! (2.61m sales to 60 million consoles is only a 4% attach rate)

People that say PS4 has sold so well because of it's exclusives make me laugh.

It sells so well because it's got the best versions of all multi platform games... Until this fall anyway.

Wow someone sounds very angry. Relax dude. It's just video games. 

 

As for mario kart selling so well, it's probably because there's not much available to play right now since it just came out two months ago. As for PS4, it has hundoof games to pick from, not 5-10 like Switch currently has. So it's not that hard to see why MK8 sold as well as it did. 

 

But you knew that already 😉

People still don't understand that the choice on PS4 matters. It's laughable. Yeah, only 5% of players will buy one exclusive, but when you have tens of exclusives every year it makes a lot of 5%+5%+5%... And so all of these smaller audiences can have the games they want. 

 

People thinking that the PS4 sells more thanks to better multiplat are several years late. The PS4 Pro already proved that wrong anyway, the Scorpio will only prove this further.