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Killergran on 16 October 2009
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RVDondaPC said:

So what conclusions are those? You can theorize time and time again but I gave you a concrete example of how your data paints a flawed picture. 50% of EA's sales this gen have been on the 360, while around 25% have been on the PS3. You would have one believe that on average an EA title will sell twice as much on the 360 as on the PS3 but that is grossly inaccurate. Infact the Last two EA titles to be released (FIFA10 and NFS:S) have both sold more on the PS3 than the 360. Even a franchise like Madden which is greatly skewed towards the American market and thus the 360, still doesn't even come close to reaching the sales ratio's(39% increase compared to your data which is a 100% increase) that your data has one believe. So I ask you what conclusions can you come up with using this data? 

Even you alluded to in your own post that you can't determine how much to discount the one year head start. So how can you even start to analyze these numbers with such a big variable being unknown? The only thing you can do is go game on game sales to determine anything of use. 

It's pretty simple. EA has released 51 games on the PS3, and 63 games on the Xbox 360.

That means each EA game sells 900k average on the Xbox 360.
And each EA game sells on average 600k on the PS3.

So here's a nice conclusion I've drawn based on this nice little data. EA sells 50% more on average per title on an xbox title.

Ubisoft sells pretty much the same (480k ps3 vs 520k xbox), and Activision sells a whopping 75% more on the xbox (700k per title vs. 400k)

You really should stop cherrypicking data when looking at the big picture. It sort of defeats the purpose of looking at the big picture.

 

The funny thing is EA's xbox titles are selling very, very well, and those were the ones that you tried to show were pointing toward the data being flawed and useless. Ubisoft isn't getting much success on either platform, and Activision has the xbox crowd pinned down while absolutely failing on the PS3. It says a lot about which company's strategy is working the best. All companies have released more games on the xbox, and each company is selling more on the xbox per title.



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