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LipeJJ on 17 April 2015

Either way, most JRPGs from SE will stay within PS systems... SO5 and Dissidia already show this.



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outlawauron on 17 April 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:
shikamaru317 said:

Type-0 HD sold 74k first week on Xbox One according to VGC, that's not bad at all for a spin-off game. It'll probably sell 300k+ lifetime on XB1. FFXV, being a main series game, will probably sell at least 3 times that much, so 900k+ lifetime on XB1. Considering how easy and cheap porting between PS4 and XB1 is, that's a nice profit on the XB1 port.

Type-0 is actually overtracked for both PS4 and XBO in the US.

XBO: 42k < Type-0 < 50k

PS4: Type-0 > 158k

All JRPGs are overtracked in the US.



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TheGoldenBoy on 17 April 2015
outlawauron said:
TheGoldenBoy said:

Type-0 is actually overtracked for both PS4 and XBO in the US.

XBO: 42k < Type-0 < 50k

PS4: Type-0 > 158k

All JRPGs are overtracked in the US.

I guess that's an easier way of saying it



vivster on 17 April 2015
super6646 said:
Ali_16x said:

So I thought the reveal of Type 0 was weird, they just showed a picture and said it was coming to PS4 and XBO during E3. They could have easily announced the game during Sony's E3 conference or even Microsoft's E3 conference but they didn't. It's just weird isn't it?

I think Sony told Square Enix they should test the sales on both the PS4 and XBO, by giving it equal marketing on both consoles so they could see how the sales differed. FF15 is being marketed for PS4 already, but why not Type 0? So when it came down to future games, exclusivity would be easier no? 

Now March 2015 NPD sales have finally came out and 79% of Type 0 sales were on PS4 with 21% on XBO, and this was just in America, every other region had to be even lower for XBO no?

Do you think more games from Square Enix will be exclusve too Sony platforms? SO5 and Dissidia are definitely not coming to XBO, maybe because they looked at Type 0 pre orders and saw the same thing. 

Also I think it will be easier for other Japanese companies too go exclusive too Sony platforms, either way it just looks bad for Xbox One and JRPGs.

Is anyone surpised? 

I actually am surprised that the X1 ratio is that high. I expected below 10%.



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Wagram on 17 April 2015

I don't believe it will change anything from the bigger releases like XV. However, I don't think SE will be bringing the niche series such as Drakengard or Star Ocean to Xbox anymore. Doesn't seem worth it.



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NewGuy on 17 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:
NewGuy said:
shikamaru317 said:

Considering how easy and cheap porting between PS4 and XB1 is, that's a nice profit on the XB1 port.

Again, there's simply no way for us to know the cost of porting. It's not as simple as putting 2 programmers and 2 testers on the Xbone version, I can tell you that.

We've heard some developers say that it's so easy that you can practically dump the code from one console onto the other and have it run from day 1, albeit at a lower fps due to the lack of optimization at that stage. I get the feeling that even AAA ports could turn a profit from a few 100k sales.

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HollyGamer on 17 April 2015

Maybe or even there is super high possibility , but for sure the sales result, will help SONY or Nintendo to bargain some exclusivity cheaper and easier over Microsoft, especially Japan, well even in west Xbox is loosing sales compare to PS, it will be no brainier in Japan, Asia and Europe exclusivity thou.



tokilamockingbrd on 17 April 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:

I doubt it. Even with the small amount Type-0 sold on XBO, Square probably thinks it's better than nothing, which would have been the result if there was no XBO version.


I think the main point is, it would not take much for Sony to "make it worth it" to Square to make games exclusive. Ya square will do a cheap port to XB1 for most stuff but I would not take much at this point for Sony to buy exclusitivity.



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Aeolus451 on 17 April 2015

I think that most JRPG's will be exclusive on the PS4.