| forevercloud3000 said: @nem Userbase doesnt equal fanbase. Thats what im trying to get across. If FFxiii remained exclusive it would have sold just as much if not more. Sales numbers from similar situations dictate this. MGS4 sold more than mgs3. Ever old ps exclusive that went multi..... Sold the same or less. If the company paid more money to development just to make it multi how is that making them more money. This is y i say going multi to achieve sales is a lie propagated by those who would benefit. Im just reading the numbers and data |
I didnt say userbase equals fanbase. I already said that twice, i dunno if you're even reading my posts. I'm gonna make this real simple and you were even saying that previously while agreeing to the other poster: Userbase= fans+nonfans(potencial new buyers). Both fans and non-fans are influenced by several different variables that will dictate their buying behaviour. They do not repeatadly do the same thing, as they arent robots, they are people and can change their mind with the changing of the factors that influence them. This is why when a new generation starts the results are not known at the start.
You are assuming that every fan would buy a PS3 to buy the game, that is a wrong assumption. Beeing a fan of a game = buying a copy. As i said before you are also butting out new adopters that have the other system. Its tireing having to repeat this again so i wont do it anymore.
Your sales example are incredibly annoying for trying to fool people. You are trying to throw dirt in peoples eyes and that is extremely irritating. User base DOES matter. The PS2 had the majority of the market share during its generation, wich justified making the games just for it as it tapped most of the market. EVERYTHING will sell less comparably, unless theres some problem with the PS2 games. MGS3 was a prequal, in a different setting with some crap mechanics that made some like myself just ditch the series completely. It sold less, cause it didnt have the same appeal as its predecessors and it was released on other platforms many years later when it was no long a high-end product. This whole theory that games are gonna sell and have more quality if they are exclusive is completely pulled from the rear end. There is NO conclusive evidance of that happening, aswell as it not making ANY sense whatsoever. You are spinning the data selectively to try and support your case.
This is also why i didnt want to have this conversation. This retorted logic is completely insane. There is a reason why companies decided to release games for both platforms, and guess what, they wouldnt have done that if they thought they wouldnt make more money that way.
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