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Zekkyou on 02 April 2017
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Snoopy said:
Zekkyou said:

Of course, not only did they all release recently but VGC's data is a month behind. Nier for example currently only has a single week in Japan listed, nothing else. Given a year, i'd say 5 of those 8 games (Nioh, Horizon, Nier, MLB, and Persona 5) will pass a million.

The thing about those "niche Japanese games that hardly anyone buys" (as you put it in another comment) is that there are quite a few of them, and most of them do actually tend to do relatively well. I wouldn't be surprised if the combined sales for the PS4's nicher Q1 titles was equivalent to MS's holiday line up.

 Selling around a million on a 60 + million install base is like braggin if a game sells half a million on xbox one. A mediocre COD game can outsell those games easily. People care more for the multiplatform games more thus the reason why Microsoft is trying to make the best experience on xbox. 

I never said it was something to brag about, but i also don't see why we'd mock them. Individually they're very tailored experiences that often have tiny marketing budgets, it's hardly reasonable to expect them to pull in Horizon numbers. Collectively though, they're a fairly valuable asset.

I didn't mention multi-plats as you didn't bring it up in the comment i was replying too, though i'm sceptical as how relevant the Scorpio's advantage will be there. A lot of the significance of the PS4's advantage was tied to price, which is a factor the Scorpio is likley to lack. Even then, i'd say it was a helping push rather than anything decisively victory defining.

A lot will depend on how MS market the Scorpio, because as it stands its target audience is quite limited. If someone cares about performance and doesn't already own a console, they're probably already a PC gamer. If they do own one, they then need to care enough to own/buy a 4K TV, then another console that doesn't play any(?) new games.