potato_hamster said:
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!
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Oh sorry! Cross gen game that runs better on current generation systems...
I was referring to non cross gen games Dr House...
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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!
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They are jumping over. People want to play the game on a current gen console unless they are too expensive...
As for Far Cry 3... I hate to use that word but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Cry_3#Sales
Undertracked...
Not to mention that there is another factor. The PS3 wasn't well received in America where these games do the bulk of their sales, whereas the PS4 is, but that isn't a problem since both sales are rather close anyways and my original point was how you can expect games for more popular consoles to sell more... when current gen outsells the former, it's great news, but it doesn't happen often...
