Horizon Zero Dawn beats Zelda to No.1 in UK ( PS4’s biggest ever new IP launch)

[Peh]

naruball said:

Peh said:

Sadly the source doesn't state how much units of the game were sold in the UK, so I just go with my hypothethical number and say 100k. Were I already said, that would be just 1,8% of the people who own a PS4 in UK. So, the rest of 98,2 % didn't bought the game for various reasons.

1. "Zelda has zero competition. If you bought a switch, you most likely also bought Zelda. There aren't many other reasons to do so."
That competition is limited by how many devices you can sell to the UK, which were only 80.000. And not everyone seems to like Zelda or bought it as a digital version which will not be listed in that statistic.

2. "A ps4 owner has thousands of other options and may as well wait to buy it later on when it gets a price cut. Same can't be said for the Switch."

How many AAA exlusive titles came out during that month for the PS4? Maybe they filled a drought with the game? Maybe they build a hype for that game. Did you took those things also into account?

That's all the points you had, and they simply don't hold.  

You saying that they don't hold, doesn't magically make them so. That's not how an argument works.

1. Again with the number of swiches sold. Nice. 4th time in a row and has nothing to do with my point. Didn't say that everyone likes Zelda, hence the "most likely" part. Feel free to pay closer attention next time.

2. Several AAA and non AAA exlusives came out. Ps4 owners have backlogs that Switch owners don't since this is the very begining of the console. As for the rest of your point, I'm not sure what you're trying to say. It's not phrased well.

They don't hold because I already stated why. You still havn't showed me a valid argument why I should think otherwise.

Again, you say Zelda has Zero competition, yet ignore the fact that people make lots of comparisions between those 2 games even on this board. Second, there is only a limited number of Switch Units available for people to actually buy the game as I already stated to you, which you still don't get why Horizon sold better than Zelda. If there were twice as more Switch units available for the UK at launch, guess which game would be on top. And like I said, we don't know the certain numbers of software sold. But I doubt that it is higher than 120k.  Again, even if PS4 has thousands or even millions of other options, this is just in favour for my argument. Because as I said, the attach rate could be around 1,8 % depending of how many software were sold. Thus more than 90 % of PS4 gamers didn't care about Horizon Zero Dawn or bought something else.

We got an attach rate of 78% vs less than 10%? So, what are you trying to sell me?