Figgycal said:
I don't know about the specific launch week numbers, but MGS4 gave the PS3 a 200k hardware boost for that month-- doubling its previous numbers. And that was just the North American boost. |
According to Vgchartz MGS4 gave the PS3 a 95k boost in the US and a 65k boost in Japan during its launch week, no boost in Europe. The difference here is that MGS4 was supposed to be the finale of an already established, beloved IP. You had an already huge fanbase that was dying to see how the series would end, that and the game came about 1 1/2 years into the PS3s life, so the console already had a somewhat decent backlog, this game just gave many the final push to get the console.
With Titanfall I don't see it happening like that, will people buy the console for this game? Definitely. But will they all rush out and buy a console for it at release? I doubt it, a number of people will, but I'd be honestly surprised if it was 95k people in week one. I rather believe that people that don't already have a X1 will wait a couple weeks and maybe see how the feedback from players is that have the game, before they make a $560 decision like that. The backlog of the X1 is still too small for Titanfall to give it a MGS4-like push and Titanfall is at the end of the day still a new IP.
