VGC 4th July Hardware/Software

[MoHasanie]

binary solo said:

MoHasanie said:

Yay, numbers! Even though they are more than a month old, this was the second most interesting week of the summer.
The hardware numbers are expected and good for the PS4. but I'm surprised to see Batman selling so much better on the PS4.

Why are you surprised?

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Batman: Arkham City	PS3	2011	Action	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	2.60	1.82	0.11	0.77	5.30
2	Batman: Arkham City	X360	2011	Action	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	2.92	1.27	0.04	0.40	4.63
3	Batman: Arkham Asylum	PS3	2009	Action	Eidos Interactive	2.19	1.30	0.07	0.59	4.16
4	Batman: Arkham Asylum	X360	2009	Action	Eidos Interactive	2.14	0.95	0.02	0.30	3.41
5	Batman: Arkham Origins	PS3	2013	Action	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	0.99	0.76	0.04	0.38	2.18
6	Batman: Arkham Origins	X360	2013	Action	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	1.08	0.55	0.00	0.14	1.77

And this is with the global install base being in Xb one's favour, by a fairly decent margin in 2009 when the first game came out. 

Now with PS4 approaching a 2:1 global install base lead a large difference in Batman sales should be expected. At week 2 Arkham City was at 2.5 million across PS360. At week 2 Arkham Knight is at 2.6 million. Sales basically the same, just proportionally weighted to PS4 because of the large discrepancy in install base worldwide. So this sales difference is actually completely expected if you think about it.

You should expect this sort of result during this generation for franchises that did better on PS3, esp while PS3 was behind. The proportional difference in sales this gen for such franchises will be much greater than the proportional difference in install base.

hmm, I didn't know Batman sold better on PS last gen. I guess it makes sense since action adventure games have usually done better on PS than Xbox.