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Farsala on 14 December 2015
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Farsala said:

Repost from NPD thread, as I think it is more fitting here.

In the end The Order 1886 (PS4) outsells Tomb raider (XB1) during the holidays and with a 20% less install base. Guess exclusives during the holidays matters more right? That is of course US only,

I am sure worldwide it is an even worse case. Sony's spread out exclusives gets the media against them, but it is clearly working.

 

Oh and The Order 1886 is seen as a flop, yet it has outsold every single XB1 exclusive for 2015 aside from Halo 5.

I think the reason The Order was considered a flop was that it sold very slowly... I mean, it's higher than GoW Ultimate Edition, but it had more time to sell and it's obvious GoW has legs, so there's that too...

RotTR flopping did not surprise me, but Forza did... other than that, it seems most of our exclusives this year have been digital, compared to 2014 where we had lots of disc exclusives... I think this might have something to do with why we didn't take this November... it also seems Halo is starting to suffer from fatigue...

Perhaps it's time to shelve Halo and move on to a new IP... Titanfall perhaps...

 

I was only referring to first month sales. They all had similar timeframes to sell, but The Order comes out on top, with a smaller userbase in US.


I can only hope that MS new ips do well, and was sad that Sunset Overdrive didn't do so hot. I would rather MS try to innovate new franchises, then to just hold onto their old franchises. Reboots of Rare, Ensemble, and FASA studio games would be nice too.