Weekly hardware/software 23 August 2014

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Dyarwolf said:

elazz said:

Fusioncode said:

elazz said:
If this is Madden week I'm going to laugh to all the people who said that it would do relatively better than PS4. HAHAHAHA! I think all the naysayers need to except PS4 as the beast for now. Especially with Destiny where I think that the PS4 will have a 500k (full 7 days), and even some people think Destiny can change something about the position of Xone.

Now I don't even think that the Halo Collection will move a lot of consoles. Maybe Halo 5

Madden is next week. Though I don't see why anyone would think it could push XBO ahead of PS4 worldwide. Unless they're just completely delusional. 

Well they mean globally in the US obviously. Which means PS4 in US outselling Xone worldwide I guess. 

Jokes aside I literally read a lot of posts like this:

"Just wait until Madden releases. Xbone will definitely gain a big boost and will be ahead of PS4 in US that particular weak" or "Just wait until Madden gets out on Xbox One"

And they use reasoning that the franchise sold better on 360 or that it is a US game and Xbox One is a US console or some of that bullshit. 

It is a US game (if you mean by easily outselling EU and RoW). And it does sell better on Microsofts consoles.

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Madden NFL 25	X360	2013	Sports	Electronic Arts	1.82	0.05	0.00	0.11	1.98
2	Madden NFL 25	PS3	2013	Sports	Electronic Arts	1.40	0.03	0.00	0.09	1.52
3	Madden NFL 25	PS4	2013	Sports	Electronic Arts	0.56	0.07	0.00	0.04	0.68
4	Madden NFL 25	XOne	2013	Sports	Electronic Arts	0.51	0.03	0.00	0.03	0.57
5	Madden NFL 25	iOS	N/A	Sports	N/A	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	4.29	0.18	0.00	0.28	4.74

I don't think the XOne version will outsell the PS4, but the margins will be much closer compared to any other multiplat game.

Think about the install base now vs then though. They were roughly even on launch timeframe, but 2014 has put a ton of air between them.