| TheLastStarFighter said: Even if TR does double or tripple or more than a title such as Batman:AC (which launched on a userbase 1/10th of what TR is launching to), |
This needs to stop. If being a launch game is such a detriment to the sales of a title then you'd never see anything but first party software on a console at launch, ever. Userbase doesn't matter as much when there's launch hype and people are picking up titles to play on their new machine.
If it's really bothering you that much then why don't we use an improved late port on WiiU instead, like Deus Ex which opened to a 3k first week and 36k LTD? But that would obviously make matters a lot worse, so...
| TheLastStarFighter said: At .1 of the sales of top software on 4One and .03 of the sales of the original release, it is - mathmatically speaking - much, much more of a realative bomb compared to other releases and at 2-4X Batman:AC much, much closer to Wii U late ports, relatively speaking. It isn't really up for debate where its sales lie. 4X and 30X are not relatively close. It is far more accurate to say that it performed similar to Wii U late ports than to say it performed much better than them. |
Then yeah, we're just talking about different things.
To use the PS4 as an example (because it's what I've been going with so far), Tomb Raider has sold 114,978 in Europe + USA (with more regions to come). The top selling PS4 game (both at launch and LT, as far as I can tell) is CoD Ghosts. FW in Europe + USA was 625,470.
114,978 / 625,470 * 100 = 18.38%.
If we compare it to Arkham City WiiU (since we've been using it all along), which had a FW in Europe + USA of 35,577:
35,577 / 114,978 * 100 = 30.94%. Not exactly close, but far closer than the picture you were trying to paint.
So .18 compared to .31. Sure, if you want to be absolutely correct you can say it was more of a bomb compared to other PS4 launch titles than Arkham City was a bomb compared to Tomb Raider. But again, Tomb Raider was a vast improvement (both in terms of sales and revenue) over the sales of Arkham City; sales which were good enough to ensure the next instalment came to WiiU. And at the end of the day, isn't "getting the userbase familiar with the franchise in preparation for the next instalment" what these late ports are all about?
