All this negativity won't stop Xbox One sales

[osed125]

JusSayian said:

osed125 said:
Yep, the first Gears of War fans were already MS fans, after that the franchise expanded to a higher audience, but very few games can achieve what Gears of War did. Same applies to Uncharted, the first fans were Sony fans, but after that the series expanded.

You cannot prove that. Gears did attract new consumers cause the first game was such a hit, Uncharted one was not a hit, but uncharted 2 was so yes you are right here but wrong with gears. But lets just ingore these two games. You said new IPs cannot gather new consumers well

Explain Halo then?

My point is that the first fans will always be the current fanbase of the console, they are the ones that hype the game the most and the ones that get the game at launch. But no hype will make the game a success in terms of sales or fanbase (PASBR is a very good recent example).

Now, Halo is one of those games that was so critically acclaimed that Xbox owners bought the game and the fanbase started to expand, very very few games manage to do that, and in order to that the game needs to be fresh and good (and in some cases consider a masterpiece).

Word of mouth is what makes a fanbase grow. And my original point is that no word of mouth will make non-MS fans get the console just to play that game, an existence franchise might, but not a new IP.