Intrinsic said:
Azzanation said:
Unfortunately many on this site dont understand this.
The way they think is if its not number in there imaginary world than its a failed product.
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I think you really have a myopic way of looking at things.
- this isn't 1994
- As with (1) the financial statement of gaming today is significant!y different than at a time when game development center around the use of sprites on a 2D plane.
- the average PS1 game cost $800k to $1.8M to make. the average snes game costs even less. The average PS4/XB1 game costs over $30M-$50M.
- in 1990's a game selling 1M copies was a big deal (platinum hits) today? a game selling 1M copies is a failure because it wouldn't recoup it's investment. Or at best it breaks even.
- lastly, what sense does it make comparing a console in this gen to the sales another console accomplished over 20yrs ago???!!! If you are gonna compare anything, compare it in a similar timescale with the platforms it's competing with.
The XB1 ends this gen not even matching the sales of the 360... and somehow you think that's not a failure? The PS3 finished last gen with around 80M in sales. And both I and Sony thinks it was a failure. While Sony won't. admit it, everything about the PS4 shows they set out to never make the same mistake again.
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How on Earth do you know this?
