JRPGfan said:
Kyuu said:
To add to Curl's comments: The market is super stacked with games many of which overshadowed by established titles. Someone's failure/success can determine the success/failure of another. I'd rather have a game with more effort and higher quality be the one benefitting from the harsh reality and rules of competition. If you go back to my ABK aquisition debates and concerns, I was rooting for COD leaving Playstation, because it would have a) forced Sony to work harder, and b) cut COD's sales and promoted other franchises. Imagine how bad Black Ops 7 sales would have gone if it wasn't available on Playstation. Most gamers are capped by money and time. I'd prefer the money/time going to quality gaming, which is abundant. Most gamers inevitably miss out on countless wonderful experiences thanks in part to trendy mediocre games. Black Ops 7 selling 10 million+ (I think it'll still sell over 20 million) won't really be a "failure", and my comment wasn't that serious. I'm happy that a mid series will decline if better games can capitalize on it. Total failure isn't required, COD is currently too big to fail. I don't want COD or any mediocre series to fail per se, I just want them to improve. Until then, I'll of course celebrate their decline because someone more worthy of success will benefit. |
Didn't they release numbers that hinted at like 90%+ playstation adoption rate (on the console side).
Ei. if they cut Playstation, they would have 1/10th of their normal sales total on consoles.
We don't have to imagine. On Xbox most people playing it, where playing it on gamepass.
It lead to them saying it cost them more than $300m in CoD sales, having it there (on gamepass).
And also caused them to restructure and raise prices on gamepass, before the next CoD released (this one).
This is why, Gamepass is now 30$ a month.
I think it does go on to sell 10m+.
I don't think BO7 reaches 20m, I think it falls short of that.... feel free to quote this in like 5years time, if that proves wrong. |
The less it sells the better! But no, the PS versions of the last BO6 weren't that dominant globally (counting PC). Skipping Playstation would probably lead to many Playstation gamers playing it on another platform (millions already have access to other platforms, and a couple of million would buy one), but most would skip it and look for another game. Battlefield 6 for example would have benefitted from it and sold even more than it did.
BO7 without Playstation would have probably fell to around 60%-70 of what it'll end up selling.
