| Alkibiádēs said: Battlefront already released on the PS4, if people wanted to buy the console for that then they would have already bought it back then. Did Destiny 2 boost the PS4's sales considerably? No, not at all... The first one did. Playstation usually has an unremarkable holiday season line-up as they focus on the rest of the year. Those big third party block-busters are also available on PC and Xbox. If God of War or Spiderman would have launched this holiday, now that would have sold systems. Microsoft has Xbox One X to boost sales, Nintendo has Super Mario Odyssey and Playstation has a price cut (which Microsoft will likely match). So yeah, that's why Playstation has the weakest papers of the bunch this holiday. |
There are two Battlefront 2 bundles consumers can buy. Clearly there is a market for both bundles or otherwise, Sony wouldn't have bothered. We can both agree that they will not have the same impact as the Battlefront 1 bundles.
Destiny 2 boosted the PS4's sales to the point that the console was up YOY compared to last September. And considering that the only Destiny 2 bundle had the Pro instead of the standard PS4, that is a pretty impressive result in that it also gave a large boost to revenue, not just unit sales.
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