CosmicSex said:
Not a stawman at all. You even suggested that "The likelyhood that the majority of people interested in GTA6 already own a PS5 is very big." The logical conclusion here is that PS5 doesn't see a sizable boost... because why would it if the majority of people interested in GTA6 already own a PS5? |
There are 100 million PS5 sold (well nearly). What do you expect. Do you expect 400 million views of the trailer lead to 400 million sold copies of GTA? No people watching multiple times? What numbers do you expect PS5 to sell in November and December? That is what I am saying with the majority already owns a PS5 that want the game.
Your whole claim is that GTA6 is big, sure. And that's why suddenly PS5 sales will skyrocket, annihilate everything the year brought and reverse course of sales even though that happened maybe once in console history: with the Gameboy and Pokemon. And only because Gameboy Color is usually lumped in to the Gameboy. Never again a console past it's peak was raised in numbers by a big game release.
That includes PS3 and GTA5. GTA5 sold 225 million copies. That is undoubtely massive. Yet in it's initial release it didn't stop sales from PS3 declining in 2013, it dropped from nearly 12 million in 2012 to 8 million in 2013. Now you may say that is different, because PS4 released in 2013 as well. But that doesn't work here. Because PS4 didn't get GTA5 for a whole year. According to your logic because GTA5 was undoubtely a massive release the PS3 whould've bucked it's downward trend for that year (and that was a September release too). But it didn't. Because that never happens in the industry. People don't suddenly start buying a console again after it has moved past it's peak.
Again, I say there will be a boost to PS5, sure there will be. But not enough to raise sales *enough* to beat Switch 2. That is all I am saying. You said people expect it does nothing for PS5. That *is* a strawmen.
