E3: Sony 'Leaps And Bounds Ahead' Of Microsoft

[Mr Khan]

brendude13 said:

Mr Khan said:

It really only has effect in the launch period, or at least it shouldn't have too much of an effect after that. You must realize that not all customers feel compelled to buy games all the time. They buy what they want, and don't buy what they don't want. It's not like "i bought the N64 with Mario 64, and now i have to buy Pilotwings because there's nothing else," you just don't buy anything else. Only a small segment of gamers will do that

If there is only one good game in a particular genre, it would sell substantially better if there were two good games in that genre.

People don't always look for a specific game, they look for a specific genre or type of game. If there is less to choose from, the odds are, what's left will sell better.

A good example is Halo CE on the original XBOX, at that time, it was probably one of the only games worth buying on the XBOX, if the XBOX recieved as much 3rd party support as the PS2 then the sales of Halo CE would have taken a huge hit.

I understand what you mean about people only wanting to buy one specific game, but if they can't find that they buy the most similar game. I have done this myself, back in 2008 I was going to buy Tomb Raider Underworld, but then I read the positive reviews for Uncharted and played that instead, because there was more to choose from, Tomb Raider Underworld lost a sale. If Uncharted didn't exist then Tomb Raider sales would be significantly boosted.

Point, but now we're talking about similarity in genre, which is a valid argument, but a different one than what has been made here (that so many games in different genres across Sony's first-party works is why none of them have sold spectacularly)