How MS could take a chunk out of Sony's sales this Holiday!

[Pionner]

Madword said:

Pionner said:
XB1's line up is nice, but we all know 3rd party games sell consoles and Sony has partnerships with almost all of them. Combine that with the expected $299 price drop and i don't think XB1 will outsell PS4 like you're expecting. TR shouldn't even have an affect on anything seeing how it's releasing the same day as Fallout 4 and days after BO3. What was MS and CD thinking?

Obviously lineups are subjective, but if you weigh all things up... only Halo is going to push consoles in any serious amount, and I'm not sure how much excitement there is for this game. I still think it will sell very well, but it's all a question of how many Halo users havent moved across yet and how many will when Halo comes out.

TR seems like a total waste of money now, and I suspect SE will be regretting it. They are going to see sales do very poorly on the XBO... why because of FO4 and the other big games around it. They were not to know it was coming out the same day, but I suspect that TR will get a delay or release date move now.

Third party games usually do well over Xmas, they always do, and even though there is a bit of apathy on COD and AC, they will still take a lot of sales. The two biggest games of this year/xmas are definately SW Battlefront and Fallout 4. Fallout 4 is going to be right up there for GOTY and sales wise will definately prevent TR from selling any reasonable amount (because some of those XBO users will buy FO over TR).

I've said this before but when people state that game ownership per console is in the low 2/3 games per console, having 4-6 big games coming out basically mitigates console exlusives. Just look at the next few months, these are the games that I would want to buy or big games that are coming out (not console exclusives):

September:

• Mad Max
• Metal Gear Solid
• FIFA 16
• PES

October:

• Rock Band
• Rainbow 6
• AC syndicate

November:

• FO4
• Star Wars Battlefront
• COD Black Ops

Theres more than that... but I think that shows the big problem for exclusives. I will probably buy about 8 of those, that's about 2 a month, and there are other smaller games I am interested in, this is why Exclusives at Xmas are not so important. I'm spending £100 on the collectors edition of FO... it all adds up.

Even Ms is starting to realise to move things to Jan-March after Sony has been doing this for years, the only problem is so many AAA games have also been delayed now to next year that again, exclusives are going to look even less appealing (unless they are big games) because so many other games will be competing.

Good points. I agree. The games i'm interested this holiday are mostly 3rd party. There's 2 exclusives i want in October, but i might hold off untill next year since i'd rather put my time in games like Fallout 4. I already have the pipboy edition preordered.