KylieDog said:
errorrrr said:
KylieDog said:
I don't think you can measure how many consoles will sell due to software.
How would you measure? Look at how many PS3s/360s sell one week, then see how much they increase next week when the games are released? There are a whole bunch of reasons why a console may sell more the week of the release, you cannot put that down to a new game out alone.
What if a console sold less the week those games are released? You'd count backwards?
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Um... it's pretty simple... If you see a sudden spike of a game and HW sales in one week over another, you can easily assume that the software was a HW pusher... Infinite Undiscovery, and Tales of Vesperia HAS PROVEN to push X360 in Japan... The fact that LBP will be BUNDLED will undoubtly sell more PS3 than Fable 2 will do for the X360. The fact that X360 also selled well on the week that Vesperia was out was also because Japan had a SPECIAL EDITION VESPERIA X360 Bundle. Also, another exmpale would be the MGS4 PS3 bundle. It pushed high PS3 sells.
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...or the week before there could have been a shortage, a fresh stock rolled out in time for those games releases, there are dozens of variables. Obviously those games will cause sales, but it is impossible to guage exactly how many increased sales are because of those games. Who is to say another previously released game won't drop in price in one store chain and make people rush out that week also, as one example.
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The answer might be ambiguous when it's a standalone game... but when a game is BUNDLED with a hardware... it's pretty noticeable.. you know they dont' just bundle a couple thousand consoles...
