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BMaker11 on 02 July 2014
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starcraft said:
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Titanfall followed by MK8. Reserve my judgement on destiny till launch.

Yea I think there's a trio, Titanfall/MK8/Watch Dogs.

I think MK8 lived up to/exceeded everyone's expectations. Overhyped requires the game to be below everyone's expectations.

People that are saying Titanfall must be seeing something different to me.

Based on the information we have, Titanfall got an 86 on Metacritic with no campaign, is the highest-selling title on the Xbox One, and still has a healthy online community 4 months after launch.

It also boosted the Xbox One's sales at the time.

Were there some idiots saying it will be the game of the generation or single-handedly lead to the Xbox One taking a permanent lead over the PS4? Sure.  But only a tiny minority, and that does not equal overhype.

As some have said, the most obvious answer is Watch Dogs. Mario Kart 8 seems to have done quite well in terms of sales and quality.  Those games that are most overhyped might not actually be known yet, such as Drive Club, Destiny, Sunset Overdrive and the Order...all of which are prime candidates.

Goddammit, no it didn't. I've been saying this since we got the numbers from March. First off, we don't know if Titanfall, itself, had any kind of affect because it was not only bundled, but had a price cut as well. But more importantly than that, March had 5 weeks. On average, March was a lesser selling month than February for the XBone, in the US at least, where the XBone sells best. To have an extra week of sales compared to a previous month is not an honest comparison. Everyone looks at February NPD and sees 258K XBones sold, then look at March and see 311K XBones sold and say "TF is a system seller!". Long story short, had February had 5 weeks of data like March did, based on its average, February NPD for XBone would have been 322.5K. It's not a valid comparison when all things aren't equal. PS4 went from 285K in February to 371K in March. Was inFamous: Second Son a huge system seller or something? It never really was in the past, but sales boosted almost 100K! Oh wait....PS4 only went from a 71.25K weekly average to a 74.2K weekly average, and I:SS released towards the end of March, so only a week or so of sales would be factored in. 

OT: Despite all the Titanfall comments, I'm gonna go against the grain and say Watch_Dogs. TF was hyped, people were saying "you'll buy an XBone for this game", etc etc...but after the 2012 reveal of Watch_Dogs, I don't think TF stacks up to it. Hype may have subsided when the game was "downgraded", but TF never got to the levels of WD hype, so WD wins.