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jlmurph2 on 12 October 2015
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Teeqoz said:
jlmurph2 said:

I brought it up because I was talking about install bases. They have all these new gamers (40%) and non-Uncharted players (40%) yet they don't jump on one of the biggest Sony franchises? Meanwhile, Xbox One has a majority of people who have already played Halo. Yet they still got MCC. There's gotta be another factor at play for the lower sales with the vastly larger install base.


The non Uncharted players that owned a PS3 are pretty easy to explain. They had the opportunity to play it all last gen and didn't, so chances are most of them just aren't interested in Uncharted. The other 40% are in a similar situation:

a) They aren't interested in Uncharted (When 2 thirds of the PS3 owners that have bought PS4s didn't play Uncharted last gen, it becomes rather obvious that a lot of these PS4 owners that didn't own PS3s wouldn't be interested in Uncharted either). I'd think that there should be a larger part of previous 360 and Wii owners that don't have any substantial interest in Uncharted, simply because if they had been substantially interested in Uncharted, they'd have bought a PS3.. So I'll estimate that 80% of the 40% that owned Wii/360s aren't interested in Uncharted. the remaining 20% of the 40% new users makes up 8% of the total PS4 userbase. Even that is likely too much, which suggests I've been highballing my estimates.

 

Last but not least, there is a very obvious reason: Halo is a bigger franchise than UC, especially in the UK and the US. Halo 4 had a three times higher first week than UC3 in the UK. MCC had a 2.5 times bigger first week than NDC (as you can see, the ratio has decreased a bit, which is likely due to the differences in PS vs Xbox installbases this gen compared to last, so there you have it).

 

Are you honestly surprised by this outcome (MCC on top by a large margin in the UK)?

Yes. I am.