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potato_hamster on 09 January 2016
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AsGryffynn said:
potato_hamster said:

Ohh so that's why Destiny on the X360 and PS3, a combined hardware total of 160 million dramatically outsold their next generation counterparts which only have an install base of around 55 million.

Let's look at those numbers!

X360/PS3 combined sales: 3.5 million
X1/PS4 sales: 8.5 million

How did that happen!?!?! The X360/PS3 should have outsold the PS4 and X1 "with ease", right?

It's almost as if there are other factors involved in a game's sales other than install base!

Oh sorry! Cross gen game that runs better on current generation systems...

I was referring to non cross gen games Dr House...

I'm sorry, why exactly should that make a difference? An install base is an install base.

But since you're so kinked up in knots over cross gen games. How about this one? Far Cry 3 for PS3 sold 3.4 million copies in 2012 in an install base of about 65-70 million consoles. Far Cry 4 for PS4 sold 3.7 million copies in 2014 in an install base of about 15-20 million consoles. But here we're talking single sku vs. single sku. PS3 was the current gen platform when Far Cry 3 came out. PS4 is the current gen platform when Far Cry 4 came out. Your contention is that examples such as this should not happen. So please, go ahead and explain how such things are possible!