Titanfall not a system seller

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jabberjawky72 said:
Titanfall: Xbox One: 206,000 preorders
Titanfall: PC: 58,000 preorders
Titanfall: Xbox 360: 52,000 preorders

Its gonna sell a good amount of copies and push Xbox Ones. It will even persuade some customers from one system to another.

Flawed logic here too.

Firstly PC pre-orders are meaningless because a huge number of PC gamers download, so hard copy pre-orders do not at all reflect the demand for the game on PC.

Secondly, pre-orders of 258K for TF Xb one would be better than pre-orders of 206K. So every sale on 360 is a potential non-sale of the Xb one console. Let's say I was a 360 owner who is really anticipating Titanfall, and at the same time on the fence about Xb one or PS4 (say I was one of those millions who was a PS2 fan but then went to 360, for one of many possible reasons). Titanfall is not a reason to get Xb one, so it isn't helping to get me off the fence and into Xb one.

Multiplatform, multigeneration titles that are new IPs are rarely system sellers, so there's a lot of relatively unprecedented expectation placed on TF.

OTOH multiplatform, multigeneration existing IP, especially the annual releases such as Fifa and CoD are very important system sellers. Both PS4 and Xb one sales would have suffered a lot if CoD Ghosts and Fifa 14 weren't part of the launch schedule. Much as it galls me to say it because I wish the CoD "fad" (well the whole FPS craze actually) would be over already. Of course if Cod anf Fifa had been only on nexgen consoles they would have sold a lot more consoles, but Activision and EA would have sold a lot fewer games, and Acti and EA are about selling games first and helping nexgen sales second.