PS4 Marketed Destiny Gives XB1 Significant Boost in UK, #Mythbusted

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Seece said:

So over the summer we've had to endure plenty of people here stating that multiplats won't and do not sell XB1's, they all go to PS4 instead. This is despite the evidence we have that multiplats have sold very well on XB1 already. But here today we have even more proof that multiplats do indeed shift XB1's.

"It outsold Xbox One hardware by two consoles to one, but it wasn't a bad week for Microsoft either, who also posted a significant sales hike week-on-week."

Destiny gave PS4 a whopping 300% boost, far more than XB1, (and that isn't just because it was marketed with it, it would have done it without it).

Nobody (sane) has ever disputed multiplats will give PS4 a better and bigger boost. But as you can see, a game that was marketed with PS4, has given XB1 a a significant sales boost as well.

We can take a look at Madden as well, the ball is in the other court on this one as it's XB1 that got the exclusive marketing. PS4 still outsold the XB1 counterpart, but it still boosted XB1 sales to double in the US.

Game marketed on XB1? Boosts sales
Game marketed on PS4? Boosts sales
Game generally marketed? Boosts sales.

Stop with this unfounded and stupid myth simply because you want it as a bullet point as to how XB1 won't sell well/beat WiiU this holiday.


Assassins Creed: Unity, Call of Duty: AW, Aliens, Grand Theft Auto V, Dragon Age, Far Cry, Project Cars, The Crew, Evil Within, Just Dance, Skylanders and more will shift XB1's this holiday.

Are you arguing with your imaginary friend again? Who are these people who say popular multiplat games won't move Xb ones? At this stage in the generation you could probably predict that for every hundred thousand pre-orders (taking USA as an example) of a game the HW will be boosted by X%. I have no idea what X is, but I bet X is a fairly reliable number regardless of the game.

What can we guess with the UK? According to VGC the week prior to Destiny was 8.6K that means a 300% boost will give ~34K PS4's for the week. Though it depends on what they mean by "boost", it could be 26K if what they mean is triple the previous week's number. If PS4 is 2:1 vs Xb one and PS4 is 34K that means about 17K for Xb one. That's a 200% boost, which is great.