Barozi said:
alabtrosMyster said:
Barozi said:
certainly not. Just because there are less games appearing at the top doesn't mean that the sales are worse.
attach ratio (games per console)
PS4: 4.45 (official numbers, including digital sales 4.42)
X1: 4.31
WiiU: 4.73 (at the same time last year 3.58)
miniscule difference between X1 and PS4 (which both launched at nearly the same time) and almost 1 game more than WiiU at the same time last year. |
Devs do not sell ratios, they sell games, in the absolute sense.
Let's say you have a market size of 100 games a week for all consoles combined, you know that 5 will be sold on PS4, 3 on XB1 and 2 on the Wii U, maybe each XB1 owner bought almost as many games as their PS4/Wii U counterparts, however the market on this machine is already satturated in therms of AAA titles... so big companies will start to look at ways to adjust their releases to not overflow the market on the machine(s) with smaller install bases, because they know that game X will prevent sales from game Y if it's released on XB1, because of market saturation.
This is why less titles will be released on a console with a much smaller install base, no matter how easy it would be to port them, especially if MS put any kind of barrier in place.
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uhm okay, I don't quite see the connection.
The userbase (and more importantly the similar fanbase) is not that much lower to justify (from a pure financial persperctive) completely leaving out games because the X1 currently sold 7m less. The average X1 gamer buys just as many games as the PS4 gamer, so why choose to release a game on a 17m userbase when you could have 27m?
The games are so similar on PS4 and X1 and the attach ratio is nearly the same. That means, if the market was saturated for one console it would be saturated for the other one as well.
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Not quite. If 5m on each side bought dragon age, that meas next month at most 5m for xbox will buy the next realease beacue they would still be playing dragon age, while for the ps4 12m still have nothing so the chnces re higher that the next game will sell at a sooner time.
I know its not perfect and to some it might not make sense(Im also not good with the words), but keep in mind that not everybody likes the same games, so having the biggest install base will benefict the most variiarity of games. For instanses the highest sellers on xbox are shoters and free games like unity and blackflag, so they make up the majority of that atach ratio, while a lot more games varie on the ps4.
