FFXV ships 5 million worldwide

[DonFerrari]

BraLoD said:

squibbfire said:

actually I confused it with the PS2... which sold over 140+

Install base is key. btw...

You can only sell so many games on 13 million wii u's....ya know.

That is not an one side road, you know...
For example, as much as the install base start increasing, the attach ratio keeps decreasing to basically all franchises/genres.
When you have a concentrated install base for a certain kind of game/genre, attach ratio may look huge, but that's because that's almost all that is driving people to actually get said system, so lesser selling systems have higher attach rates.
You can also look at high profile games, as Halo on XBOX 360, has games selling more than they did on XBOX but getting lesser attach rate, because of the higher install base, now Halo 5 may look better than Halo 3 because the XBO sold so much less, which is pointless.
Systems that sell huge numbers receive more games and have more variety, thus sales spread and do not concentrate, also they gather more casuals, that buy less games, and make the actual install base, of active gamer, much lower than the total install base.

Install base is rarely a factor to be discussed to determine series sales differences, unless it does have a so capped install base that it becomes mathematically improssible or highly improbable that a game can keep selling what the series used to, I don't see much point, and the contrary is actually not true, as the install base increasing, even exponentially, does only mean more people are interested in said system, not said franchise, so it doesn't have to sell more now because there are more of those system out there.

That's how I see it.

Another point is that if the game is the defining game of the platform if the platform fails to sell great numbers it's already a show that the franchise lost it's power.

tbone51 said:

squibbfire said:

pretty sure they bundled that out with some consoles there big guy....

The old "bundled" it! Lets be real you think even 1.5mil were bundled? I mean 8mil how much do you think of that was bundled

Even if 8M was bundled. Considering how much WiiU have sold it would be more of the case that MK incentivized the sales of the bundles than the opposite. So any mention of MK being bundled justifying the high sales of MK it should be the opposite.