| kowenicki said: I go with a no. Its only fanboys that throw their toys out of the pram when a game becomes a multiplat, sulking and pretending they wont buy it. The general gaming public do not think this way. Would Infamous, Viva Pinata, LBP, Alan Wake and Heavy Rain sell more as multiplats?... of course they would. |
well it's easy to think that when you can think of it as if today they were released on other platforms but at launch? If some of the games loose their marketing and backing from sony or microsoft they could very well have sold less on the one platform they were on and if there isn't other marketing to replace it. Sales aren't only a relationship between how many people can buy it. There is also a realtoinshipa with how much it's marketing who it's marketed to and what it's competing with. Sometimes though the "fanboys" buy something that is just on their console if one game is multi and a similar game exclusive they would pick up the exclusive. There is also that sometimes when a game is multiplatform it doesn't work great on any of the the platforms its on but when it it made for just one it can work really great on it and that can lead to more salse then then would be had for doing the multiplatform version.
I do believe though that most cases being multiplatform will cause a game to sell more that would more that regain any costs of making it multiplatform.
