Polygon: Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity likely means more sales, higher profits

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MoHasanie said:

vivster said:

MoHasanie said:

vivster said:
Lol. What kind of chimp wrote that thing?

Sure they may be making more money. That's probably what this deal is about. But selling more units? That is just bullshit. The whole "calculation" they did is absolute nonsense.
First of all pretending that 50% of gamers own both consoles is a joke. Secondly ignoring that the cut off gamers are 2 thirds of the market and not just half is another joke.

They can be happy if the controversy about the game pushes it up to half of the possible sales. And yes I'm ignoring that it's only timed exclusive.

Well 50% may be too much, but by the end of 2015, a significant amount will own both consoles. Maybe 20 - 25% will own both. 

Do you really believe this?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=180192

This is a forum of made out of core gamers. Do you really believe it looks better with  the mainstream consumer?

Its been only 8 and a half months since the generation started. Later on more people will buy other consoles they don't own. 

Sure, but 2015 isn't later on, it's still early in the generation when the vast majority of people only won one console. Let us look at gen 6, how many multiconsole owners could there have been? PS2 had 70% market share. That means a maximum of about 40% of PS2 owners purchased a second console that generation. The actual multiconsole ownership rate in gen 6 would be far lower than that. Gen 5 would be a similar picture. The length of gen 7 and the fadness of Wii probably means gen 7 has a relatively high multi console ownership rate. But among people I actually know the pattern of ownership is either console only or Wii +1. I know quite a few people with a console and I don't personally know anyone with PS3 and 360 Combo. Oh also plenty of people who're PC +1.