Jay520 said:
Comparnig weekly sales are relatively unimportant, because the market one week may not be representative of the general market. Comparing the PS3 and 360 are relatively unimportant, since their difference is likely to be less than 1% so it really doesn't matter, and since both are losers anyway. Comparing sales of two games that sold 500k each is relatively unimportant, since neither of those games would have made any significant impact on the market. Yet VGC users are very interested in these things and much more pointless comparisons. Comparing Halo and GT tells which console has the biggest exclusive. Like I said, you can call it pointless, but having the biggest exclusive is important to many. I'm not interesting in discussing if it's important since importance is subjective. I'll accept that it's pointless (I really don't care what you want to label it). Just know that many pointless comparisons are the basis of this site. Questions for you though. You seem to be implying that comparing games of the same genre and comparing consoles are objectively more important that comparing the biggest exclusives of two different consoles. Why? Why is it important to know which console had better marketting? Why is it important to know which FPS game is more popular? And what makes those more important than knowing which console has the biggest exclusive? Please, only objective answers. |
Weekly sales - accurate trends over large periods of time. You can see when a game boosts a console sale in a given week e.g. Wii U and Monster Hunter.
Comparing the PS3 and 360 is actually more important than that as you have to factor in launch dates and cumultive changes over time. E.g. 1% weekly difference adds up over time.
What does it matter if a console has a "bigger exclusive"? Are you suggesting that the 360 should now invest more into Forza? Should GT start to include Spartans to increase it's audience? Having the biggest exclusive is just horn bashing with nothing really to be gained from it at this stage considering consoles sold etc. Something like SSBB was interesting as 35% of all GC owners owned a copy but there is no significant here between these games. It seems to be more a part of the "my console is better than yours" mentality that plagues console gaming.
Comparing games of the same genre can indicate how receptive the market is. For example, look at Grid vs GT, or any arcade game vs GT. It shows possibly that a well established name is important, or maybe that audiences currently prefer realism. Or maybe it's testament to one dev producing something of a higher quality than another.
It's important to know which console had better marketting than another because being a sales site this site should be (be sure as fuck isn't) used for gauging future success of other consoles and therefore help you with investments whether it's avoiding a console or buying stocks and shares. Basically, do you gain any business insight from knowing if GT sells better than Halo? If the answer is no, then why ask the question? In comparison you can learn a lot about consoles and games of the same genre by comparing sales.
