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bigjon said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

No. In terms of Next generation games, the popularity is more like :

1. GTA V 2. Black Ops 3 3. Destiny 4. Overwatch

I think? Black Ops 3, Destiny, and Overwatch all have similar player numbers.

You said Black Ops 3 has 30 million players on just PS4? That's amazing. Destiny and Overwatch both have about 30 million total registered.

   Overwatch is very popular, but its market penetration is not nearly on the level other other games listed. What it has going for it is the fact its smaller userbase plays the game alot. So total play hours Overwatch may be competitve, sales? Nope.

That's not true. OVerwatch just isn't a physical sales/console heavy game. 

 

Destiny released in september of 2014 and didn't get to *nearly* 30 million players till april of 2016. Overwatch got 30 million users from late may 2016 to march of 2017. Keep in mind a lot of sales of Overwatch are on the PC, where you can't switch accounts to play the same game, essentially the games are linked to accounts so you'd need to rebuy the game for a 2nd account. Whereas a game like Destiny can be played on *any* account if you have it physically. Essentially even if people were making multiple accounts on Overwatch to play it, they'd have to rebuy the game. I don't know why you're talking about hours played... marketing teams usually don't use that metric. Total number of players isn't entirely accurate, but especially for account-locked games it's much more accurate than it would be for say, Destiny. Though I believe on console you don't need a battle.net account? I don't know, I don't have it on console lol.  I'm not saying it's sold more than Destiny, but the market penetration is there.



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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
bigjon said:

   Overwatch is very popular, but its market penetration is not nearly on the level other other games listed. What it has going for it is the fact its smaller userbase plays the game alot. So total play hours Overwatch may be competitve, sales? Nope.

That's not true. OVerwatch just isn't a physical sales/console heavy game. 

 

Destiny released in september of 2014 and didn't get to *nearly* 30 million players till april of 2016. Overwatch got 30 million users from late may 2016 to march of 2017. Keep in mind a lot of sales of Overwatch are on the PC, where you can't switch accounts to play the same game, essentially the games are linked to accounts so you'd need to rebuy the game for a 2nd account. Whereas a game like Destiny can be played on *any* account if you have it physically. Essentially even if people were making multiple accounts on Overwatch to play it, they'd have to rebuy the game. I don't know why you're talking about hours played... marketing teams usually don't use that metric. Total number of players isn't entirely accurate, but especially for account-locked games it's much more accurate than it would be for say, Destiny. Though I believe on console you don't need a battle.net account? I don't know, I don't have it on console lol.  I'm not saying it's sold more than Destiny, but the market penetration is there.

I was simply saying that people who do play Overwatch play it alot. CoD has a higher percent of casual players. I know a ton of people who play CoD casually. Where as I dont know a single person who plays overwatch casually (like 1 hour a week)



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

bigjon said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

That's not true. OVerwatch just isn't a physical sales/console heavy game. 

 

Destiny released in september of 2014 and didn't get to *nearly* 30 million players till april of 2016. Overwatch got 30 million users from late may 2016 to march of 2017. Keep in mind a lot of sales of Overwatch are on the PC, where you can't switch accounts to play the same game, essentially the games are linked to accounts so you'd need to rebuy the game for a 2nd account. Whereas a game like Destiny can be played on *any* account if you have it physically. Essentially even if people were making multiple accounts on Overwatch to play it, they'd have to rebuy the game. I don't know why you're talking about hours played... marketing teams usually don't use that metric. Total number of players isn't entirely accurate, but especially for account-locked games it's much more accurate than it would be for say, Destiny. Though I believe on console you don't need a battle.net account? I don't know, I don't have it on console lol.  I'm not saying it's sold more than Destiny, but the market penetration is there.

I was simply saying that people who do play Overwatch play it alot. CoD has a higher percent of casual players. I know a ton of people who play CoD casually. Where as I dont know a single person who plays overwatch casually (like 1 hour a week)

That's very true. Sorry, I thought you were talking about sales overall. I think if we're comparing hours, Blizzard games tend to be those games that sometimes make casuals into hardcore fans, but sometimes don't. I imagine a lot of people bought Overwatch as a shooter and didn't like it and stopped playing it haha. Whereas most people who like Overwatch play it a lot. I actually play it casually, unfortunately .... 



*Shrug It's cool that so many gamers play cod and the other main stream games but I'm not one of them.



Aeolus451 said:
*Shrug It's cool that so many gamers play cod and the other main stream games but I'm not one of them.

You have your own tastes and that is what matters, play whatever you enjoy. 

 

Myself I enjoy alot bf1 and Black Ops 3 online gaming but I also love games like Nioh which is more niche. 



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Ka-pi96 said:
GTA V?

Does that count as an 8th gen game?



VGPolyglot said:
Ka-pi96 said:
GTA V?

Does that count as an 8th gen game?

For Steam users it is.



Did the game have a free multiplayer weekend on consoles? I remember it had one on Steam