JayWood2010 said:
I just see more people waiting for games than buying it purely because it is sony and the promise of games. The early adopters would have already flooded in by this point unless it is just selling out nonstop. |
You're only choosing to look at part of the picture.
x360 was the only "HD" console out for over a year, had gears, fable, viva pinata, PGR, Kameo, Dead Rising, Saints Row, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Crackdown.
Yet was still outsold launch aligned by a system with no games.
There is something wrong with your logic formula here, and the answer, if you take a step back and look at the bigger picture is what I'm saying.. my "theory" fits all the criteria you are putting to it.
A system sells early on based on potential. Having games improves that potential. As long as your system is viewed as having potential, it will sell.
What you're saying is that it is because of the games themselves that xbox360 did better than xbox. The answer is yes and no. Games helped the system sell, yes. But it's not necessarily the games themselves that did the selling, but the potential value those games created for the system.
Otherwise, using your metric, you still can't logically explain why ps3 outsold 360 launch aligned.
Unlesss......and here's the kicker, you resort to saying that it was the playstation brand itself that sold the system. While that would also be slightly innaccurate, it does come to the same conclusion that we will now be looking at yet another playstation brand console release. You could argue that ps3 degenerated the playstation brand and so that will result in less sales, but preorders and first year projections would say if anything it's ony strengthened since ps4 is now the most preordered console of all time.
