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DerNebel on 30 July 2015
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sasquatchmontana said:
DerNebel said:

Take a look at real world interest instead of forum BS, take a look at Amazon rankings or Youtube views. Before Titanfall came out it was literally supposed to be the biggest thing since slices bread, supposed to "revolutionize FPS" and the game with the "Most E3 awards in the history of gaming", Tomb Raider isn't even the biggest thing that comes out on Nov. 10th. Also 99% of people don't care about any Tomb Raider exclusivity fallout.

99% of people? 99% of people don't even purchase a console of any kind. Why would they care? Who do you think games sell to? People with no interest in videogames.

It should have been pretty obvious that I was talking about 99% of gamers.

DerNebel said:

It wasn't at 7 million, everything beside that is simple speculation.

I never said it was, if you read what I wrote you would know that. Things that are not speculation however:

  • It outsold Gears 1 in March on a $499 console with a max of 2.4 Million users, vs a (average) $349 console with 3.3 million users in November
  • It had a Better US launch, than any 1st party* playstation exclusive ever (only using in case someone mentions GTA:SA)
  • Tomb Raider? November? 8M users and a shit storm of controversy? HAHAHAHA! Honestly, between Gears and Titanfall vs. Bulletstorm and Crysis 3, sometimEs its about the right partner, not the number of platforms.

So it was more frontloaded than Gears, big whoop, also hey US =/= the world, in case you forgot. And if you don't believe me about the frontloaded part just compare December 2006 NPD and April 2014. I'd link you vgchartz numbers but I have a feeling that you wouldn't believe them anyway.

Also how that Sony comparison is in any way relevant is beyond me, but GoW3 sold 1.1 million in the US its first month.

Again instead of laughing look at actual performance data, the majority of the market doesn't give 2 shits about this controversy. Tomb Raider is currently rank #553 on the Amazon.com gaming bestseller list, Fallout 4 on X1, a game coming out the same day, is currently #32. Try and step out of your bubble in which everyone is so weirdly involved in the console war and look at what is actually going on. Look at E3, did anyone at E3 talk about Tomb Raider? No, nobody cared, the game was completely overshadowed.

DerNebel said:

You aren't seriously comparing the retail split here are you? I don't think there's any sales indicator less usefull than PC retail sales in todays market

Titanfall PC is a ghost town, and that games been on sale loads of times.

Show me 5 entries in a 5M+ series that sold at least the same on PC as on console in the last decade. The closest you'll find is Minecraft and that had a 3 year headstart.

You don't know Titanfall PC numbers, period. They will mainly be digital and the split between them and X1 numbers is certainly not 9 to 1, logic dictates as much.

And I don't know why you want me to look for such a game, cause I certainly never said that Titanfall sold as much on PC as it did on X1. But just for the fun of it, do you wanna know about a 5 million+ game that sold more on PC than Xbox? Here, you go it's called Tomb Raider:

http://steamspy.com/app/203160