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Miyamotoo on 30 October 2016
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Swordmasterman said:
Miyamotoo said:

Yes actually totally have sense, especially if you look attach rate.

You missing point, it not about point how much would Splatoon would sell on Wii (totaly difrent platform and time), or Halo 5 on Xbox 360, but for instance how much Splatoon would sell on twice bigger Wii U install base, obvious and more logical answer would be around twice better. If instal base of Wii U is twice lower, sales for games would be around twice lower, including Splatoon. For instance I were pay attention on sales of MK8, attach rate of MK8 on Wii U was constantly around 50-60% (you basically had on 1m Wii U sold consoles around 500-600k sold copies of MK8), that basically proves that my point, higher instal base higher sales for game.

Onother example that proves my point, look at sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, on PS3 /Xbox360 and on PS4/XB1. You will see that sales of that game are identical on PS3 and Xbox360, but that game is sold twice better on PS4 than on XB1. Why do you think is like that!? Beacuse of instal base offcourse, PS3 and Xbox360 have identical instal base and sales of that game are identical, while PS4 has twice bigger instal base than XB1 and that directly effecting on sold copies, because its logical that same game will sale better on bigger instal base than on lower.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Call+of+Duty%3A+Black+Ops+3

 

You basically saying that instal base does not effect on sales of games!? You trying to say that U4 sales would be same on PS4 if instal base were 30m, 20m or 10m, instead of 45m!? Will U4 continue to sell, offcourse, beacuse more people will buy console and some of them will buy U4, basicly higher instal base wil affect on higher sales of game, and if we look curent attach rate around 10% of new owners will buy U4.

That isn't how it works, we aren't talking about oil sales or any other thing. The consumer has hundreds/thousands of games to chose from and Installbase's influence has a limit in those sales. But, for you, it has unlimited and exactly proportional influence.

Mario Kart sold nearly the same on GmaeCube than it did on the Wii U, won't take that into account ?

Metal Gear Solid's franchise has almost the same number of sales between plataforms with 100-155-80 millions of installbase.

 

Call of Duty is selling more on the PS4 because   it is a worldwide success while the Xbox is just a USA and UK's success. Playstation is very popular in  Europe, as always, where Uncharted has the majority of sales. The Xbox is more popular now on the USA than it was when Halo 3 launched, 75-80% of Halo sales are on the USA. But, even so, it underperformed and sold less than 1/3 of what Halo 3 did on launch with some millions more  people to purchase in the market where it sells the most.

 

You missing point, how much MK GC would sell if instal base of GC is higher, or how much MK8 would sell if Wii U instal base is twice of actual instal base. Thats my point when people comparing sales of U4 on instal base of 45m and Halo 5 on instal base of 23m.

Call Of Duty selling exactly twice more on PS4 than XB1 because there are twice more people having PS4 instead of XB1, attach rate for that game is identical on PS4 and XB1.