Sony relying on heavily bundled and/or deep discount just to get games into million sellers list?

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Jay520 said:

happydolphin said:

theprof00 said:

ignore sales2099.

He hides behind a thin veneer of business conscious posting.

It's marketing. That's why you give previous games away, so that you can sell the newer games for higher price. It's just like ps+. Give away quality early entries to get someone to play something they might not have tried yet.

sales doesn't understand how strategy works until ms does it.

I actually find his PoV far more interesting than that of many others here.

If the strategy would work, then you would have a point. But the problem is, as he pointed out, they're bundling all their mega-hits with controllers, so it makes one wonder if they're having trouble selling these games on their own, as trad controllers never needed bundled games to demonstrate their use (a contrast with Nintendo's strategy).

Mega hits? When those games were bundled, it was long after they released and they weren't selling amazing numbers. The only game you could say was an amazing hit is LittleBigPlanet. And yes, Nintendo bundles too. Mario Kart, Wii Play, Wii Sports, NSMBWii, all saw bundles with some form of hardware AT LAUNCH.

I bought my Zelda: Skyward Sword day 1 bundled with a Wiimote+, which was only $15 more expensive than a regular Zelda game. Sony never came close to something like this, definitely not with these old games that you guys posted in this thread.