Chris Hu said:
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The Driveclub bundle, like most PS4 bundles this gen, wasn't just a free copy of the game, though. The bundle cost €439.99, while the standard PS4 in Europe costs €399.
It'd be like downplaying Destiny sales on PS4 because it was "heavily bundled"...but the Destiny bundle cost $450, not $400
Forza 5, on the other hand, was straight up free. It didn't add a dime to the cost of any XBOne console purchased. Matter of fact, I remember many retailers adding Forza 5 to other bundles, when XBOne sales were slumping after launch. F5 was the ultimate freebie, since, for example, Titanfall had its own bundle and retailers tacked Forza on it to try to incentivize sales, and the price didn't go up.
But hey, we can't knock bundled games, free or not. If Wii Sports is "one of the best "selling" games of all time", and any time you point out that it was bundled day 1 and sold with every console for free and even if you didn't want the game, you're still gonna get it because it comes with the console regardless; you're just a "hater" trying to do whatever you can to downplay it's "great" sales.....then it stands to reason that DC shouldn't be knocked for being bundled. Especially when you still had to pay for the game, and you had a choice to do so (as in, you could just get a regular PS4 for normal price or get a DC bundle) whereas in the case of Wii Sports and F5, you had no choice. If you bought a Wii or a XBOne at a particular time, it was coming with one of those games whether you wanted them or not. And it did you no financial harm because you didn't pay extra for them.
