DerNebel said:
The problem is that it's the usual shameful, misleading MS PR crap that some people are going to inevitably eat up as "hurrdurr Forza 5 and Horizon 2 sold 7 million units on X1", when that is not even remotely what this means. Here are the problems with this announcement: 1. The way they arrived at the number vs. what they are claiming what it is. Looking at the leaderboard numbers you posted it is pretty apparent that they arrived at 7 million by just adding up Horizon 2 and Forza 5 leaderboard numbers. What they claim this is though is 7 million unique users, which even if we ignore the idea of more than one account on one console is still completely disregarding a much more important point: the clear overlap that is going to exist between the userbases of these 2 games. 2. All the ways these leaderboard numbers can be inflated without anyone actually having to buy this game new. There is of course the used game market, but there's also the rental market, borrowing the game from someone, getting Forza 5 on the free weekend, possibly even just playing Horizon 2s demo depending on how that is set up and finally simply playing the game on more than one account on one system. So what this means is that the 7 million number tells us fuck all about the actual number of people that currently own Forza 5 and/or Horizon 2 |
Where are these people?
And i already tell you any god damn demo doesn't count in it.
And i already talked about your second point, read before post something repeated.
PR Crap? more like you people just keep the usual hate.
