Destiny PS4 beats Titanfall sales on XB1 after only 1 week vs Titanfall's many months!

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Too_Talls said:

swbf2lord said:
Hypocritical, really, the people talking about userbase. People have made similar arguments about the Wii U vs PS4 or Xbox One, and it's always been brushed aside by either of the two camps.

So..............brushing aside the obvious elephant would be favorable because some people (no clue who and what you're referring to)

have shown a different stance on some other thing?

 

This logic should be avoided. why bring random gripes from past arguments that are probably unrelated into something?

 

Personally I think the userbase issue here is too obvious to ignore.

Why don't we do some actual investigation rather than blind speculation, which has provided us with wonderful gems like "95% because of price".

Destiny: September 11th on all platforms, PS4 Userbase at the time 10 - 11 million (VGC)

TitanFall: March 11th X1 and PC only, X1 Userbase at the time 3 - 5 million [1] [2] [3]

That is a gap from 5-8 million consoles.

The time between releases was 6 months exactly, or 184 days.

VGC numbers (probably undertracked, does not include bundles, and digital)

Notice the distribution

figures in millions

Destiny

PS4

2014

Action

Activision

1.17

0.75

0.09

0.26

2.27

Titanfall

XOne

2014

Shooter

Electronic Arts

1.44

0.57

0.03

0.12

2.15

Its very interesting to note, that Europe and Japan, the regions that the XB1 is getting curbstomped in Destiny is outseling TitanFall. Furthermore, the userbase excuse isn't consistent when considering Destiny PS4 (US) vs TitanFall XB1 (US). If the PS4 is outselling the XB1 everywhere, wouldn't Destiny do the same if Userbase was the only reason?

Globally however, lets look at the sales over time versus the disparity in userbase, completely ignoring the fact that TitanFall had 173 days to increase its user base.

2150000/(184+7) = ~11,257 sales per day

2270000/(0+7) = ~324,286 sales per day

324,286/11,257 = Destiny(PS4) sold at a rate 29 times that of TitanFal(XB1)

8000000/3000000 = at most the PS4's userbase 2.67 times that of the XB1's userbase at the time of TitanFall

 

While this doesn't prove that the Userbase disparity is irrelevant, it does show that there are clearly a lot of other more significant reasons for this sales gap. Just dismissing it to userbase alone is obviously wrong and very foolish. Region alone, appears to be more significant then Userbase.