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Wonktonodi on 01 October 2014
QuintonMcLeod said:
Mr Khan said:
@ Quinton, et al.

Can we please stop this pedantic line of inquiry and get back to the topic at hand?


I believe I was stating that it's unfair for people to count multiplats against a console that is not getting those same multiplats. Its like comparing PC games sales to the consoles. The PC will obviously have more multiplat games that have not and probably never will grace the PS4, but counting them anyway. The best way, I believe, would be to compare total sales of exclusive titles for each system.

This is similar to when people celebrated the PS4 outselling the 3DS for one single month. I just don't see the significance in celebrating something so miniscule.

pc software doesn't give royalties console software sales do, what more do you want to break that down with digital and physical? Also would you count all software or just games? Do games bundled with Opperating systems count? Do the operating systems count? Would Office count as just one or many for all the programs? Also wouldn’t you break down PC sales by “generation” for years? For operating systems? Or just all PC software all time? Do sales on Macs count too?

If you are only comparing between 2 systems wouldn't all games that are on one and not the other be exclusive? Why shouldn’t the millions of sales of Destiny at full price count, when the millions of sales of bundled  Mario games do?

There are many ways to compare systems and how they sell. Trying to put limits on it “to be fair” come across as trying to make a preferred console look better. Is it fair to count games bundled? Games that never cost $60 games with special editions that cost more?



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QuintonMcLeod on 02 October 2014
Wonktonodi said:
QuintonMcLeod said:
Mr Khan said:
@ Quinton, et al.

Can we please stop this pedantic line of inquiry and get back to the topic at hand?


I believe I was stating that it's unfair for people to count multiplats against a console that is not getting those same multiplats. Its like comparing PC games sales to the consoles. The PC will obviously have more multiplat games that have not and probably never will grace the PS4, but counting them anyway. The best way, I believe, would be to compare total sales of exclusive titles for each system.

This is similar to when people celebrated the PS4 outselling the 3DS for one single month. I just don't see the significance in celebrating something so miniscule.

pc software doesn't give royalties console software sales do, what more do you want to break that down with digital and physical? Also would you count all software or just games? Do games bundled with Opperating systems count? Do the operating systems count? Would Office count as just one or many for all the programs? Also wouldn’t you break down PC sales by “generation” for years? For operating systems? Or just all PC software all time? Do sales on Macs count too?

If you are only comparing between 2 systems wouldn't all games that are on one and not the other be exclusive? Why shouldn’t the millions of sales of Destiny at full price count, when the millions of sales of bundled  Mario games do?

There are many ways to compare systems and how they sell. Trying to put limits on it “to be fair” come across as trying to make a preferred console look better. Is it fair to count games bundled? Games that never cost $60 games with special editions that cost more?

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at.

I mean, if a system is getting more games than another, then its only natural its total sales would be higher. That's the point I'm getting at here.



ICStats on 02 October 2014
QuintonMcLeod said:

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at.

I mean, if a system is getting more games than another, then its only natural its total sales would be higher. That's the point I'm getting at here.

You haven't really added anything new to your point in about 20 posts during 3 days.  Repeating the same thing over & over isn't going to make people agree with it.



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Teeqoz on 02 October 2014

Guys, a mod has already told us to cut it. This guy won't change his mind regardless.



QuintonMcLeod on 02 October 2014
ICStats said:
QuintonMcLeod said:

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at.

I mean, if a system is getting more games than another, then its only natural its total sales would be higher. That's the point I'm getting at here.

You haven't really added anything new to your point in about 20 posts during 3 days.  Repeating the same thing over & over isn't going to make people agree with it.

As long as you see the point I'm trying to make, then I'm happy.



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NickK on 02 October 2014

I think that is not true. Wait for official numbers before you celebrate.



truthinthedark on 03 October 2014

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GTAexpert on 03 October 2014
padib said:
GTAexpert said:

Any console can live on first-party games alone, what matters is how much they are able to sell with that. Clearly the Wii U hasn't been able to survive off first-party games alone. It had many third-party games in its early life when its sales were the highest. That indicates that it needs third-parties to sell.

Any console can, but few manufacturers are able to pull it off. Nintendo is the rare exception in the industry today. That fact is backed with numbers which I can provide if need be. The Wii sold a lot of Nintendo software, and would have been able to sell massively mostly on 1st party alone.

The WiiU has floundered even in 1st party sales, but it floundering still offers solid SW sales mostly on a 1st party level such that the leading competitor (PS4) took a while to outpace the U's SW sales despite having major 3rd party support.

That really shows Nintendo's strength as a 1st party publisher.

When most Of Wii U's software has been highly-rated exclusive games from major franchises for 2 years, while PS4's software has primarily been late ports/multiplats on 4 other platforms or a few B-rate AAA games from Sony's first-party for just a year the number seems far more impressive for the PS4. Next year will be when we can actually compare PS4 and Wii U's software portflio, and only at that time will the numbers be more indicative of anything.



ICStats on 03 October 2014
padib said:
GTAexpert said:

When most Of Wii U's software has been highly-rated exclusive games from major franchises for 2 years, while PS4's software has primarily been late ports/multiplats on 4 other platforms or a few B-rate AAA games from Sony's first-party for just a year the number seems far more impressive for the PS4. Next year will be when we can actually compare PS4 and Wii U's software portflio, and only at that time will the numbers be more indicative of anything.

Watch Dog broke records and Destiny just came out. I don't agree with you.

I have to agree with GTAexpert.  The point I think is Watch Dogs and Destiny are not highest tier AAA games, but they broke sales records.  Imagine how a 95 rated game with great marketing could sell.



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CosmicSex on 03 October 2014

I am sure that this has already been pointed out, but the figure now says:

33.3 million PS4
29.0 million Wii U

Thats one heck of an adjustment.
Also, by next week, PS4 should have 2 games at 3 million +