Amazon US September monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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UltimateGamerConsole said:

Pionner said:


Holidays don't only count. PS4 has more games than XB1. Stop putting so much focus on a couple of the year.

I didn't say only holidays count. Sony won when they were releasing games in Q3-14, so the one who releases games in Q4 should win it. Sony aren't the same now as they wer during PS3 days, I want them to return to that form.

So if Sony had pushed Until Dawn and Tearaway Unfolded into October it would all be OK? The ND collection isn't the be all and end all of PS4's holiday strategy, it's not even the main exclusive thrust. What's going to sell PS4's in the exclusive library are all the games that have released during the year. It's good to release high profile exclusives in the holidays to create a higher profile, but it's not necessary and when you are already high profile it doesn't matter all that much.

For the first 2 or 3 years of PS3 the whole mantra was PS3 has no freakin' games, someone even made a video parody about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo63IX2vZAM

Seems like people have short memories about PS3. I don't think you really want PS4 to emulate PS3 in the early years, unless you want PS4 to do worse. In 2008 it got a nice lift with MGS4, but that released in June, not the holidays. 2008 equates to 2015 so the line up going in to these holidays isn't any less impressive than LBP and Resistance 2 was for holiday 2008. Given tearawy Unfolded is more than a straight port, and comes from a console almost no one cares about the position of this game and it's potential level of interest should be the same as LBP. And Resistance 2 ended up being a little underwhelming sales-wise. PS3 made a huge leap in 2009 with UC2 and $299. That equates to 2016 for this generation. And by all accoiunt 2016 is looking as impressive, or more impressive, than 2009.