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Frogger on 12 April 2014
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pezus said:
DerNebel said:
spemanig said:
"MLB in April. Watchdogs in May. The last of us in Summer. Destiny in September. Order 1886 around Holiday 2014."

Oh boy.

First, none of those are "major pushes" except for The Order 1886. The Last of Us will barely push anything because most PS4 owners that would care probably owned a PS3 and already played the game there, and Watch_Dogs already pushed all the next gen systems it would have last holiday season during the launch period. MLB will push exactly nothing and Destiny will push what every multiplay pushes, which is nothing.

The PS4 will obviously outsell the XBO this year, but let's not be delusional about the reasons why be pretending that the year is riddled with killer apps and hardware pushing games.

bolded: That is absolutely false. Multiplats, just as every other type of game, push consoles. Just look at what GTA pushed last year or what Cod pushes every year. Considering that about 90% of all games are multiplats it is safe to say that multiplats push the majority of consoles.

Agreed. Destiny should be one of the biggest system sellers this year. It will give both PS4 and X1 a boost, but PS4 probably more so due to Sony's deal with Bungie/Activision

I think I'm being misunderstood. I was using hyperbole when saying that multiplats don't push systems. They do, but you're not going to see a situation where having a multiplat like Destiny will give one platform the edge over the other, like what the OP is suggesting. This isn't COD on the 360 anymore. Destiny will sell more on the PS4 than the XBO because the PS4 has a larger installed base, not because the PS4 is "the definitive Destiny console" like what the 360 was to COD. In that light, was I saying that Destiny will push "exactly no PS4's." And by "exactly no," I meant "not enough to be considered at all signifigant."

You won't be seeing a signifigant amount of people specifically purchasing a PS4 over the XBO for Destiny because of any particular benefits that the game has on the PS4 over the XBO is what I'm trying to get across. The "Destiny boost sales" will come from people who want a next get system so badly, but are just waiting for a game to justify the purchase, and are too moronic to realize that a game available on the current gen system they already own isn't a justifiable reason to purchase next gen hardware. These people have already made up their mind on what console they wanted with no regard to Destiny, because it's a multiplat.