| colafitte said: For starters, you're comparing shipped numbers vs sold to consumers numbers. Second, despite launching both in 2017, Horizon numbers are as of Feb 2019 while Splatoon 2 numbers are as of end of June 2019. And God of War launched a complete year later, so.... Another ridiculous notion that i'm tired of hearing everywhere is that every Nintendo game is sold at 60$ for eternity and each Sony game ends at garbage bin price in just a few months. That's not true, period. Like Banaking has said earlier, Sony games can be very cheap with offers on PS Store because is absolute pure profit for Sony. Digital works very different than retail. And you can find cheap Splatoon 2, GOW and HZD in a stores everywhere if you like... And for last....those PS4 games are still selling too. You're the kind of person when TLOU and Uncharted 4 sales news came could not believe those games sold that much, because how???, "Sony games have not legs!!", and that's because Sony doesn't care to update sales from their games as much as Nintendo, but because they don't do that it doesn't mean they are not selling well too. Splatoon 2 must be around 8-8'5M sold to consumers which amazing on its own merit and it's going to surpass 10M, but Horizon Zero Dawn can be perfectly around 12M right now, and GOW should be close to that too. Those games keep selling, like Spider-Man and will probably end with more than 15M each. And i'm not entering in the theory that Sony games have way more competion on PS4 than Nintendo games on Switch because i know some people here don't want to accept that at all, but in my opinion it's something really to take into account. |
I'm going to offer some counter-points, because I think you are grasping for anything you can use to defend Sony in this post. Kind of like when a guilty party hires a lawyer; that lawyer will come up with the best case they can to spin things in their favor, and that's what this seems to be.
Your first point is that the Horizon numbers are out-dated while God of War had a disadvantage because it came out a year earlier. It's kind of hypocritical, because Horizon launched before Splatoon 2, so how can that be a disadvantage. Even the timeframe discrepancy offsets the release dates in favor of Horizon.
Your second point is that you are tired of hearing about how every Nintendo game is $60 for eternity while each Sony games ends up at a garbage bin price in a few months. Is has been said before that Nintendo values their IPs by not lowering the price of their games very much. This is just a true statement, good or bad. It is what it is. But no one is saying what you said. You are putting words into other people's mouths.
The odd thing is that you state that the aforementioned point is not true, but then go ahead to say that Sony games are on sale because digital is pure profit. So they are selling for a cheap price? Or aren't they? See my point?
Going back to digital games being pure profit, wouldn't a digital sale at $60 be pure profit also? Who makes more money?
And something you probably didn't consider... I can only assume you are referring to used games when you refer to those "cheap" Splatoon 2 copies you say you can find in stores. Those don't count as a sale for the purpose of the numbers we are looking at. And you can bet that Nintendo loses a lot more money to used game sales by keeping their games at full price for so long.
I apologize if I have offended you, as that is sincerely not my goal. In fact, I have lived long enough to come to terms with the fact that some people are willing to defend their platform of choice on any grounds. It doesn't matter what the debate is, you will always be there for Sony, and I respect that. And no, I'm not trying to sound condescending or to patronize you. I truly, truly mean well. I don't know how to express my most profound sense of gratitude other than to extend my metaphorical hand out to you in friendship.
