| Spectrumglr said: i wouldn't say that...X360 sales last christmas holiday have beeen huge, much higher than during it's first christmas...if GoW wasn't a system seller tell me what is a system seller.
and BTW even if GoW wasn't a system seller (let's consider for a moment) i don't think this thing makes much of a difference from a dev point of view...when you sell 5 millions copies you are happy and willing to make a sequel. |
I wasn't saying that it didn't help sell systems (in fact I would say that it had a big 'system seller' effect) what I was saying is that 'system sellers' sell far fewer systems than people expect.
Games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Halo 3, and Super Mario Galaxy will sell systems to people because they are highly anticipated, high quality games that will have huge marketing budgets. Many people assume that these games will sell Millions of consoles to people which I think is way too high of an estimate. At best I would say 10% of people who bought a game will buy a system specifically for that game while an additional 10% will buy the system for a combination of released and pending games (including the 'system seller').
