The Witcher 3 dominates on the PS4. Sells 1.7 million day one (all platforms).

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shikamaru317 said:

Protendo said:

I find the onslaught a bit suprising given the exclusive marketing advantage the Xbox One had. This is bad news for Xbox One RPG fans.

Sadly Microsoft barely used the marketing deal for Witcher 3, same goes for Dragon Age last holiday season. I saw very few ads for Witcher 3 with Xbox One branding, and it was only bundled in Europe. Big mistake on Microsoft's part imo. Xbox One is continually losing more and more of the RPG fanbase and that saddens me since Xbox had a large RPG fanbase last gen and since RPG's are my favorite genre overall. I fear the situation will only get worse, Micosoft has no announced RPG exclusives as of now. They do still have Fallout 4 marketing at least, they'd better use it much more effectively than they used Dragon Age and Witcher. I want to see a Fallout 4 bundle this Holiday season with plenty of stock. Fallout 4 preorders are huge so far, there is no doubt that a Fallout 4 bundle could help move a good number of Xbox's this holiday season and get more RPG fans on Xbox One.

 

Well Shikamaru-Sensei, I hope this can be turned around for games like BattleBorn and Fallout 4. I really want those two games to do really well on the Xbox Platform so that the playing field can be more even. The RPG scene on the Xbox Platform is either losing steam fast, or Microsoft seems bent on pushing the shooting genre to the max.

 

Another great point you mentioned was the RPG fanbase on the Xbox Platform. I remember going back to the original Xbox there were great RPG's. Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, Jade Empire (Still waiting Bioware), Black Stone: Magic and Steel, Fable (Lost Chapters as well), and of course, Shenmue II. Xbox 360 brought the house down with Lost Odessey, Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia, The Last Remenant, Infinite Discovery, and Magna Carta 2. Even for a time the Mass Effect Series was exclusive. Now, we really do not see much of any JRPG or any RPG support from Microsoft. I honestly thought Scalebound was going to put an end to this. Sadly..... that wasn't the case. I am still getting the game, but the fact remains is that Microsoft seriously needs to branch out to other genres that they should develop in house to obtain success.