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

[Normchacho]

ICStats said:

Normchacho said:
Sooo... let me get that math straight.

Polygon is saying that half of all of the combined sales for the Xbox One and PS4 have been to people who own both consoles. That simply isn't possible because that's 2.5 million more sales than the Xbox One has...

Now, lets try to make this viable. Lets say that half of everyone who bought an Xbox One also has a PS4 (which is still being way too generous) That means that you have 2.5 million PS4 owners who could still buy the game.

That still leaves 7.5 million PS4 owners who cant buy the game until it comes out for the PS4. Or...50% of the market. That also assumes that nobody who owns both is going to wait for the PS4 version.

Needless to say the article is bull...

I posted the same above.

Acutually if 2.5 million have both, that means there are only 15 - 2.5 = 12.5 Million unique users, so 7.5 Million out of 12.5 Million is 60%.

If nobody had both consoles it would be 67%, so Polygon's point doesn't make a whole lot of difference.  Between 60 & 67% of the market won't have access to the game, and that's not even counting PC.

Oh yeah, my bad. I wonder if anyone at Polygon bothered to do that math out again just to double check before posting it? Do you think they didn't notice or were they just hoping nobody else would notice?