Bristow9091 said:
Ganoncrotch said:
Spiderman has a lot of TV advertising over here in the EU though, can't get through a show without seeing a advert for it and possibly information about bundled console to go with it, while I agree with you that the game will be bought by a ton of the 80million strong ps4 fanbase, you have to admit that Sony/MS/Nintendo don't invest in these huge titles to sell software, they do it to sell hardware, if software was the goal then they would make the game and sell it on all 3 platforms.
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Oh of course, I have no doubt it'll sell hardware, I just think that this late in the gen it isn't going to give as big a hardware bump as people are hoping. Don't get me wrong, it'd be nice if next weeks numbers were huge in comparison (Since this is September 8th, only a day after Spider-Man came out), but I'm not not really expecting to see that, it'll just be a nice surprise if it DOES end up being the case.
Also yeah, in the UK and there are literally adverts all over tele, even on billboards and buses, and had the same few adverts play before YouTube videos too, lol. They really ramped up the marketing for it!
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I'll be honest, as a fan of gaming, marvel and the playstation I love it, it's a whole bunch of the things I love all being shoved down peoples throats :D makes a difference from f'ing car insurance adverts and comparing various meerkats.
I think that you could be right that the ps4 isn't going to double the numbers in any particular week all of a sudden, but I think as we get closer to Christmas having the titles there like God of War and Spiderman from this year might help peoples choices in asking Santa what to bring them, sure it wont have a huge surge in system sales right off the bat, but I think the long term goal of the game will be to keep the PS4 from declining as long as possible considering it's already in the 5th year but it's still selling like a spring chicken, Sony are gonna wanna keep that happening for as long as possible especially when you consider that at this point in the generation they've probably got the manufacture of the ps4slim model down to the lowest cost to Sony per system so the profits will be greater now than ever if they can keep the train rolling.