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teigaga on 31 March 2016
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AEGRO said:
teigaga said:

Microsoft saved you some money. 

It'll be nice for some conclusive evidence but I feel pretty confident that most mainstream gamers only buy 1 console per generation unless an anomoly like the Wii arises. Also feel pretty confident that 90% of playstation and Xbox gamers do not use PC as a regular gaming platform for anything other then mobas/mmos. The biggest selling titles like StarWars/COD/Fifa  etc and their sales paint a pretty clear picture that many console gamers do not see PC gaming as an interchangable platform.

Can you back up any of the numbers you are giving?

Nothing solid, which is why I say it'd be nice for some conclusive evidence :)

But again the prominence of third party games selling more on console versus PC is telling. Witcher 3 had a massive openning on PS4, yet the PC version also smashed the previous games records. The arrival of the PS4 didn't notably damage the PC's performance from what we can see, nor did the franchise's prominance on the PC act as barrier for the PS4's version sales. Most game sales paint the picture that PC and Console are not just interchangable platforms. When PC franchises are introduced to console, that hightens their sales significantly as opposed to the game featuring only slightly improved sales spread across more platforms. The elderscrolls is a perfect example of this. 

Equal things can be said about PS4 versus Xbox. Most third party games sell in close to proportion with the number of units out there, somewhere around 2:1 in favour of PS4. This gives off the impression that people have picked a console and are sticking by it. Looking really far back we saw that Gamecube and Xbox were unable to attain any notable piece of the market during the PS2's reign, despite tons of exclusives and super low prices. This suggests that when there is a very obvious choice, that one console will devour the market with people sticking with it and not picking up a secondary platform. Since then, competiton has been much stronger Sony has been much weaker which is why userbasse are split more evenly the last 2 gens. I believe 7th gen was the only era where secondary console purchases were actually a major thing and that was down to the Wii.