December 2014 NPD Thread! XBO, PS4, Wii U up! Many software up!

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Madword said:

DerNebel said:

true_fan said:

Neither Bloodborne or The Order are system sellers, they are games many with the current system will buy.

Bloodborne is selling the system to me. Lol

Yeah I think there will be quite a few console sales for that game, it's just one of those games that some people just wont get, but it will sell consoles.

In fact it's silly for anyone to say that AAA exclusive games dont shift consoles, they all do... its just difficult to quantify the actual numbers.... I see BB pushing a good number, and I feel even with the bad press that The Order will still have the effect of a strong HW sales push.

The Order is up for question as there's still a bit of low expectation for it.

But the Souls series has created a pretty decent fanbase on PC for this family of games, and there is no doubt in my mind that PC-based Souls fans will buy PS4 for Bloodborne. Perhaps not in their hundreds of thousands, but certainly several thousands. To imagine that "all Bloodborne fans already own PS4" is actually anywhere true is quite astounding. Actually what PS4 game has there been over the last year that would get Souls fans on board with PS4? Pretty much nothing. What is far more likely is that because Bloodborne was announce quite a while ago, many Souls fans have contented themselves with Dark Souls 2 on their PS3 and they are going to buy a PS4 with Bloodborne. That seems like a much more logical conclusion of how Bloodborne will impact hardware sales.