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Rainbird on 22 June 2009
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gebx said:
Rainbird said:
@ Gebx

I was providing insights into the composition of your list, as having a list and providing an average for the sales of some of the games on that list is not very descriptive.

And the point of my final sentence is that bad games usually wont sell well, though I realize I should have expanded on that. Taking platform and userbase into account is important for how well a game does as well. You can't just expect one game to reach the same attach rates on both platforms, because the platforms have a lot of similarities.

To add to the whole thing though, three of the games on your 360 list were quite heavily bundled, and some games that were released a long time ago will have felt a greater impact from the smaller PS3 userbase, like Guitar Hero III or Call of Duty 3.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but looking at it from a perspective of black and white with no other nuances won't get you the full picture.

Even the bad games are doing far worse on the 360, I've addressed the bundled issue with the previous post, the 360 attach rate is 37% higher than the PS3 without the bundles.

GH3 - Release simultaneously (might be confusing with GH2 which I did not include)

CoD 3 - PS3 port was released two weeks after 360 version. Europe version released PS3 launch day. In both cases it had the advantage of being a launch title

 

And your right, Activision can't expect the same games to have similar attachment rates. Which is probably why they want a pricecut. They want the PS3 market to open up to gamers.

No, I wasn't confused by you not including GH2, but this example goes back to what I said with certain games for certain markets. GH is generally much bigger in America compared to Europe, so american sales of GH3 on the PS3 will have taken quite a hit from the PS3 being almost only a 4th of the install size of the 360 when the game launched.

And I wonder how CoD3 did such poor numbers compared to Resistance (although I realize Resistance was bundled, but it can't have been that bundled).

And I know they want a pricecut to help their games sell better, every single person with a hand in creating HD console games want a pricecut for the PS3 for the same reason, but I find it weird that this complaint comes from Activision when it's generally the same games that sell well on both platforms, the 360 versions just sell a lot more when totalled up. Why history channel games are even made in the first place is something I find astounding...