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CosmicSex on 05 June 2015

FIFA would have the most immediate impact.



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Barenziah on 05 June 2015

I prefer the meltdowns of Sony easily winning gen 8 myself and all those games selling miles more on PS4,much fun for the vgc forum



  

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Proxy-Pie on 05 June 2015

GTA, obviously.



Acevil on 05 June 2015
pokoko said:
Yeah, but what if Nintendo lost the rights to ... hm.


Been there and done that, that is essentially the N64 era! :P



 

torok on 05 June 2015
SWORDF1SH said:

GTA is the biggest franchise


I'm not sure if we can affirm that. Of course, GTA V sold gangbusters, but we only had two GTA games for PS360. In the meantime, we had like 9 CoD games and since MW/BO they sell an easy 20M every year.

I took a look at sales and CoD did around 160M on PS360, while GTA IV+V did around 60M on the same platforms. We can apply the same logic to Fifa, because it sums up 70M+ on PS360.  So I think that which franchise does the biggest impact is pretty much debatable.

However, back to the OP, I think it's hard. But any franchise tied to the Wii U will more likely suffer than help the console. Because if any of the would become exclusive to PS or XB, you could buy that console and still play all other 3rd party games. If one of them went Wii U exclusive, you would have to choose between that franchise and all the other 3rd party games.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

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MoHasanie on 05 June 2015

GTA would have the biggest impact.

The most interesting case would be if GTA was exclusive to the Wii U. It would have the biggest impact on sales but I think the Wii U would still be in third place.



    

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Ultrashroomz on 05 June 2015

Most likely GTA.



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BHR-3 on 05 June 2015

COD on PS4 would have the bigger impact there released yearly we just had gta5 on ps4 and xb1 so it will be yrs before we get another gta game on consoles and im pretty sure R* will release rdr2 or some new ip before that



                                                             

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SWORDF1SH on 05 June 2015
torok said:
SWORDF1SH said:

GTA is the biggest franchise


I'm not sure if we can affirm that. Of course, GTA V sold gangbusters, but we only had two GTA games for PS360. In the meantime, we had like 9 CoD games and since MW/BO they sell an easy 20M every year.

I took a look at sales and CoD did around 160M on PS360, while GTA IV+V did around 60M on the same platforms. We can apply the same logic to Fifa, because it sums up 70M+ on PS360.  So I think that which franchise does the biggest impact is pretty much debatable.

However, back to the OP, I think it's hard. But any franchise tied to the Wii U will more likely suffer than help the console. Because if any of the would become exclusive to PS or XB, you could buy that console and still play all other 3rd party games. If one of them went Wii U exclusive, you would have to choose between that franchise and all the other 3rd party games.

In that sense yes COD is a bigger franchise. What I meant that GTA has more unique sales so gta appeals to a larger audience and would have the bigger impact. It's pretty close though. Looking at last gen GTAv sold about 35M on PS3/360. BLOPS (highest selling COD) sold about 26M. So the GTA deal would affect 35M while the COD deal would affect 26M. Altough the COD deal would be a more lucrative because it sells more copies.



Teeqoz on 05 June 2015
SWORDF1SH said:
torok said:
SWORDF1SH said:

GTA is the biggest franchise


I'm not sure if we can affirm that. Of course, GTA V sold gangbusters, but we only had two GTA games for PS360. In the meantime, we had like 9 CoD games and since MW/BO they sell an easy 20M every year.

I took a look at sales and CoD did around 160M on PS360, while GTA IV+V did around 60M on the same platforms. We can apply the same logic to Fifa, because it sums up 70M+ on PS360.  So I think that which franchise does the biggest impact is pretty much debatable.

However, back to the OP, I think it's hard. But any franchise tied to the Wii U will more likely suffer than help the console. Because if any of the would become exclusive to PS or XB, you could buy that console and still play all other 3rd party games. If one of them went Wii U exclusive, you would have to choose between that franchise and all the other 3rd party games.

In that sense yes COD is a bigger franchise. What I meant that GTA has more unique sales so gta appeals to a larger audience and would have the bigger impact. It's pretty close though. Looking at last gen GTAv sold about 35M on PS3/360. BLOPS (highest selling COD) sold about 26M. So the GTA deal would affect 35M while the COD deal would affect 26M. Altough the COD deal would be a more lucrative because it sells more copies.


That's presuming the people buying CoD are the same people every time, but you can't be sure some people bought AW and not BO (I know I did for instance.)