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Conegamer on 11 July 2014

Well, there's really nothing at all surprising about this one bit.

Aside from maybe the PS4 - XOne gap, but that's all Watch Dogs no doubt. Will be interesting to see how things pan out from here.



 

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jlmurph2 on 11 July 2014
Conegamer said:

Well, there's really nothing at all surprising about this one bit.

Aside from maybe the PS4 - XOne gap, but that's all Watch Dogs no doubt. Will be interesting to see how things pan out from here.


If you look at the install bases + exclusive content, is that gap really that surprising?



Conegamer on 11 July 2014
jlmurph2 said:
Conegamer said:

Well, there's really nothing at all surprising about this one bit.

Aside from maybe the PS4 - XOne gap, but that's all Watch Dogs no doubt. Will be interesting to see how things pan out from here.


If you look at the install bases + exclusive content, is that gap really that surprising?

Not really no. But I wonder whether or not this difference will grow or remain constant (or even shrink) from here.



 

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ryuzaki57 on 11 July 2014
jlmurph2 said:
ryuzaki57 said: Playstation platforms kinda accounted for half of their sales

Sony didn't pay for those games, simple as that. Exclusive content isn't given out for free just because a studio sells well on a console. Besides, Sony paid for Far Cry 4 content, stop complaining.

I couldn't care less. Publishers shouldn't spit on the majority of their buyers.



 

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ryuzaki57 on 11 July 2014
Burek said:
ryuzaki57 said:
and after that those ungrateful bast** go sign with MS on AC Unity and The Division. Some publishers really have an attitude problem...

It actually makes excellent business sense. They need a few of those deals to stimulate sales on a weaker console. Because regardless of the AC deal, that game is still going to sell much much more on PS4, so they split the support. They support Far Cry on PS4, because it is objectively a weaker seller of the two, and by utilizing PS4 superiority will manage to do excellent numbers, and AC will not get hurt by not having that support. 

Not sure. Lots of PS owners will be pissed. Such badwill can have a negative impact at some point, in terms of brand image to begin with.



 

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Ucell on 11 July 2014
DolPhanTendo said:

And for some reason Ubisoft still releases games for the Vita. Vita was a percent less then the WiiU last year and yet Ubisoft threatens only Nintendo. Huge double standard BRUH!

Wii U and Vita both account for 0% of Ubisoft's sales.

And Ubisoft didn't release a single game for Vita in the quarter, compared to releasing Child Of Light on Wii U. STILL they are at the same place.

Now I think that it should make sense to you.



Arkaign on 11 July 2014

All they would have to do is make a compelling game for 3ds and it would sell tons. Not trying on a platform doesn't mean the platform doesn't have tons of customers willing and wanting to buy good titles.

If you build it they will come.



Burek on 11 July 2014
ryuzaki57 said:
Burek said:
ryuzaki57 said:
and after that those ungrateful bast** go sign with MS on AC Unity and The Division. Some publishers really have an attitude problem...

It actually makes excellent business sense. They need a few of those deals to stimulate sales on a weaker console. Because regardless of the AC deal, that game is still going to sell much much more on PS4, so they split the support. They support Far Cry on PS4, because it is objectively a weaker seller of the two, and by utilizing PS4 superiority will manage to do excellent numbers, and AC will not get hurt by not having that support. 

Not sure. Lots of PS owners will be pissed. Such badwill can have a negative impact at some point, in terms of brand image to begin with.

I don't think LOTS of PS owners will be pissed about a few costumes and a couple of missions that are just a filler nobody would notice if they were not there.

I mean, Watch Dogs on PS4 was advertised with "60 minutes of extra gameplay". I have no idea which missions are those, even though I played them all, and I'm sure had I played the game on XOne I wouldn't even notice the difference.

I highly doubt that any PS owner wanting AssCreed will not buy it because of that, or even buy another console for some meaningless DLC which will be sold for $2.99 in two months time.

And if people really get upset about those things, maybe they have a wrong hobby.



famousringo on 11 July 2014
zarx said:
famousringo said:
It's an outlier quarter, no doubt, but PC revenue collapse is the only interesting news I see here.

So handhelds are abandoned, Wii won't bring in easy profits anymore, PC sales aren't keeping pace, and mobile has largely been spun off to Gameloft. I'm not convinced that consolidating on two near-identical consoles is good news for a mega-publisher like Ubi.


What PC revenue collapse? Total sales were up 374% so PC revenue is actually up by quite a lot YoY. Watch Dogs being broken on PC (many people are still suffering from unplayable stuttering that is only fixable via obscure mods which don't work for everyone), Uplay going down rendering it unplayable for the first day because of too much demand and having heavy bundling with Nvidia GPUs (likely settled as a lump sum deal similar to PS+) of course hurt it on PC. Plus it was heavily marketed towards Sony with exclusive DLC etc which is why even the PS3 pulled above the X360.

That's how it goes. Pariah platform gets crippled version to drive customers to preferred platform, reduced revenues on pariah platform are used as an excuse to reduce investment and keep putting out crippled software. 

The problem with playing kingmaker is that, at the end of day, somebody else ends up being king. The big publishers may find that as diversity dwindles, the power in this relationship will shift to Sony.



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