CGI-Quality said:
koffieboon said:
CGI-Quality said:
koffieboon said:
CGI-Quality said:
koffieboon said:
So you reason that by making those games only available on 360 all of a sudden 360 owners will flock to the stores to pick up these games? While they didn't show this behavior although the game is just as available on their platform when being a multiplatform game? I'm sorry, but that simply doesn't make sense. |
But it does. Think about it, had GTA IV been a PS3 exclusive from the get go, would it have sold better AND lots of PS3s? I would think so.
When you believe there's only going to be one version, you're more inclined to pick it up. Why do you think Halo Wars and Gears 2 aren't on PC? Maximizing sales!!! Microsoft knows what they're doing, which is why I can see where disolitude is coming from.
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We're talking about third parties here, moving hardware is not their problem. And an exclusive GTA IV would have sold millions of copies less than the multiplatform version. So how would that help Take Two?
No, you're not more inclined to pick up a game when it is only on 1 platform. The only difference is that if you want to buy the game you only have 1 available platform to choose from. And Microsoft is not third party, so of course they want to move their hardware.
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How not? Exclusives will convince folks on the fence about picking up a system, to go and pick it up. Take GTA III for instance, was it not the breakout PS2 hit? It was what move LOTS of PS2s. I have NO doubt GTA IV would have done the same for PS3.
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This thread isn't about hardware sales, it is about software sales. No doubt an exclusive will sell more on one platform when it is exclusive, but this is more than offset by the loss of all the sales on the other platforms.
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What I'm saying is, GTA IV may have ended up with more TOTAL sales had it been exclusive, actually, to ANY system.
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Now you are dreaming...
GTA4 as of now has a 26% attach rate on either platform in the US....
If it was a PS3 exclusive and even if it helped move 1 million more PS3 worldwide ( more than doubtfull), for the PS3 exclusive version to sell as much as the Xbox360+PS3 version together would mean GTA4 PS3 would have to sell over 11 million units WW and reach an attach rate of 50%+
This ain't just happening....
Aside from Games that come with peripherics you can't expect games to reach over 30% attach rate....
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
