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Which one do you think will sell more?

PSVR 18 21.18%
 
Switch 56 65.88%
 
Almost the same 7 8.24%
 
Results 4 4.71%
 
Total:85
Errorist76 on 25 January 2018
flashfire926 said:
DonFerrari said:

You must be a PSVR specialist.

We would then have to discount all the games that haven't sold anything relevant... but even with 2:1 options the attach ratio isn't 2:1 and the sales difference is 7:1

Well, Skyrim on Switch is competing with big names: Zelda, MarioKart, 3D Mario, Splatoon, Fifa, Nba 2k, etc. Is there anything as reknowned in the psvr library thats at the same caliber as skyrim? The only thing that comes to mind is resident evil, and that came out way back in last janruary.

Think about it.

If someone just bought PSVR, would someone go with Skyrim, a well known game that is often talked about, or these other 20-minute experience games whose name youve never heard in your life?

If someone bought a Switch, would they go with Skyrim, which they may have have already played on another console, or zelda/mario, two critically acclaimed games that they've heard a lot of praise about, and is exclusive to their console? 

That's basically true...Let's just say Skyrim VR, as noticed already around BF, is true console/system seller for PSVR. It surely isn't for Switch imho.



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DonFerrari on 25 January 2018
flashfire926 said:
DonFerrari said:

You must be a PSVR specialist.

We would then have to discount all the games that haven't sold anything relevant... but even with 2:1 options the attach ratio isn't 2:1 and the sales difference is 7:1

Well, Skyrim on Switch is competing with big names: Zelda, MarioKart, 3D Mario, Splatoon, Fifa, Nba 2k, etc. Is there anything as reknowned in the psvr library thats at the same caliber as skyrim? The only thing that comes to mind is resident evil, and that came out way back in last janruary.

Think about it.

If someone just bought PSVR, would someone go with Skyrim, a well known game that is often talked about, or these other 20-minute experience games whose name youve never heard in your life?

If someone bought a Switch, would they go with Skyrim, which they may have have already played on another console, or zelda/mario, two critically acclaimed games that they've heard a lot of praise about, and is exclusive to their console? 

Nope I never would buy Skyrim, still I bought DC VR, Rush of Blood, Batman VR, RE7, GTS talking about a handfull of VR games. Not to forget that it is much more likely that someone that have VR have played Skyrim before than someone with Switch.

But you trying to find several reasons to justify PSVR version outselling Switch won't make Switch number better... now imagine if for when to do a port someone can see that even a VR version outsell Switch version... for me that is good also.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

BeardofZeus on 25 January 2018

Perhaps I should have qualified. I mean really good games -as in over 90 (or at least 80) on metacritic. The switch has a lot of those - PSVR has very few. As far as I'm aware almost all of them are 50s, 60s and 70s at best. 



Errorist76 on 25 January 2018
BeardofZeus said:

Perhaps I should have qualified. I mean really good games -as in over 90 (or at least 80) on metacritic. The switch has a lot of those - PSVR has very few. As far as I'm aware almost all of them are 50s, 60s and 70s at best. 

RE7, Skyrim, Dirt Rally, Ultrawings (strangely not reviewed at all.. one of the best VR games on the market imho), Rez Infinite, Thumper. 

Oh yeah.. stop spinning and stop exaggerating please. 

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/ps4/all?hardware=psvr



flashfire926 on 25 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
flashfire926 said:

Well, Skyrim on Switch is competing with big names: Zelda, MarioKart, 3D Mario, Splatoon, Fifa, Nba 2k, etc. Is there anything as reknowned in the psvr library thats at the same caliber as skyrim? The only thing that comes to mind is resident evil, and that came out way back in last janruary.

Think about it.

If someone just bought PSVR, would someone go with Skyrim, a well known game that is often talked about, or these other 20-minute experience games whose name youve never heard in your life?

If someone bought a Switch, would they go with Skyrim, which they may have have already played on another console, or zelda/mario, two critically acclaimed games that they've heard a lot of praise about, and is exclusive to their console? 

Nope I never would buy Skyrim, still I bought DC VR, Rush of Blood, Batman VR, RE7, GTS talking about a handfull of VR games. Not to forget that it is much more likely that someone that have VR have played Skyrim before than someone with Switch.

But you trying to find several reasons to justify PSVR version outselling Switch won't make Switch number better... now imagine if for when to do a port someone can see that even a VR version outsell Switch version... for me that is good also.

"you" isnt everyone. The plain and simple truth is, skyrim is the most well known and most critically acclaimed out of the games you listed, and will easily be the best-selling psvr game yet.

And to the bolded, people are willing to jump into a game they previously played because TV screen --> VR is a much, much, bigger change TV screen ---> handheld, and so its much more justifiable to buy the game again because of the drastic difference. 

Lets face it, Switch has way, way more quality games skyrim has to compete with than psvr ever will.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

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DonFerrari on 25 January 2018
BeardofZeus said:

Perhaps I should have qualified. I mean really good games -as in over 90 (or at least 80) on metacritic. The switch has a lot of those - PSVR has very few. As far as I'm aware almost all of them are 50s, 60s and 70s at best. 

perhaps you need a bigger truck to move the goalpost

flashfire926 said:
DonFerrari said:

Nope I never would buy Skyrim, still I bought DC VR, Rush of Blood, Batman VR, RE7, GTS talking about a handfull of VR games. Not to forget that it is much more likely that someone that have VR have played Skyrim before than someone with Switch.

But you trying to find several reasons to justify PSVR version outselling Switch won't make Switch number better... now imagine if for when to do a port someone can see that even a VR version outsell Switch version... for me that is good also.

"you" isnt everyone. The plain and simple truth is, skyrim is the most well known and most critically acclaimed out of the games you listed, and will easily be the best-selling psvr game yet.

And to the bolded, people are willing to jump into a game they previously played because TV screen --> VR is a much, much, bigger change TV screen ---> handheld, and so its much more justifiable to buy the game again because of the drastic difference. 

Lets face it, Switch has way, way more quality games skyrim has to compete with than psvr ever will.

I aint everyone... your fault that you put "someone", that "someone" could be me... and since Skyrim didn't sold 2M on PSVR it is clear it isn't everyone buying it... so there seems to be a lot of "not everyone" not buying Skyrim... and RE7 and GTS are leagues better than Skyrim for me.

Sure I would prefer a new experience of VR than portable since I don't even care about portability... but since a lot here say one of the main reason for the success of Switch is it being portable, and looking at the Skyrim Switch thread there were a lot of people saying how much value was it being portable... but I do agree that there is more value on paying extra 300 to play it on VR than play it portably.

Let's face it, Nintendo userbase will more than anything buy something made by nintendo than a multiplat... but they will surely complain and bash 3rd parties for lack of support.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

flashfire926 on 25 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
BeardofZeus said:

Perhaps I should have qualified. I mean really good games -as in over 90 (or at least 80) on metacritic. The switch has a lot of those - PSVR has very few. As far as I'm aware almost all of them are 50s, 60s and 70s at best. 

perhaps you need a bigger truck to move the goalpost

flashfire926 said:

"you" isnt everyone. The plain and simple truth is, skyrim is the most well known and most critically acclaimed out of the games you listed, and will easily be the best-selling psvr game yet.

And to the bolded, people are willing to jump into a game they previously played because TV screen --> VR is a much, much, bigger change TV screen ---> handheld, and so its much more justifiable to buy the game again because of the drastic difference. 

Lets face it, Switch has way, way more quality games skyrim has to compete with than psvr ever will.

I aint everyone... your fault that you put "someone", that "someone" could be me... and since Skyrim didn't sold 2M on PSVR it is clear it isn't everyone buying it... so there seems to be a lot of "not everyone" not buying Skyrim... and RE7 and GTS are leagues better than Skyrim for me.

Sure I would prefer a new experience of VR than portable since I don't even care about portability... but since a lot here say one of the main reason for the success of Switch is it being portable, and looking at the Skyrim Switch thread there were a lot of people saying how much value was it being portable... but I do agree that there is more value on paying extra 300 to play it on VR than play it portably.

Let's face it, Nintendo userbase will more than anything buy something made by nintendo than a multiplat... but they will surely complain and bash 3rd parties for lack of support.

Point out where I said everyone with PSVR is buying Skyrim.

Skyrim didnt sell 2 million cause, the install base is like what, 3 million in total? Its not so hard to understand.

and let me copy paste what I just said:

"Lets face it, Switch has way, way more quality games skyrim has to compete with than psvr ever will."



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

DonFerrari on 25 January 2018
flashfire926 said:
DonFerrari said:

perhaps you need a bigger truck to move the goalpost

I aint everyone... your fault that you put "someone", that "someone" could be me... and since Skyrim didn't sold 2M on PSVR it is clear it isn't everyone buying it... so there seems to be a lot of "not everyone" not buying Skyrim... and RE7 and GTS are leagues better than Skyrim for me.

Sure I would prefer a new experience of VR than portable since I don't even care about portability... but since a lot here say one of the main reason for the success of Switch is it being portable, and looking at the Skyrim Switch thread there were a lot of people saying how much value was it being portable... but I do agree that there is more value on paying extra 300 to play it on VR than play it portably.

Let's face it, Nintendo userbase will more than anything buy something made by nintendo than a multiplat... but they will surely complain and bash 3rd parties for lack of support.

Point out where I said everyone with PSVR is buying Skyrim.

Skyrim didnt sell 2 million cause, the install base is like what, 3 million in total? Its not so hard to understand.

and let me copy paste what I just said:

"Lets face it, Switch has way, way more quality games skyrim has to compete with than psvr ever will."

You said "someone", I said I wouldn't, then you said I'm not "everyone", then I said that most of the "not everyone" haven't bought Skyrim... so we have something like 1.8M "not everyone" and 0.2M someones... seems like "not everyone" is a lot more significative.

Well Zelda sold more than the console itself on the first months... but Skyrim is selling to like 15% of PSVR userbase? Seems like it isn't like the only good experience that all should buy as you were implying... yet it isn't doing not even 2% of Switch userbase right?

Let me copy and paste what you said:

"If someone just bought PSVR, would someone go with Skyrim, a well known game that is often talked about, or these other 20-minute experience games whose name youve never heard in your life?"

Since PSVR have an attach ratio that crossed 4 and is nearing 6, and Skyrim on it is still only 15% attach ratio doesn't seem like PSVR owners think it is like the only option as opposed to what you are sayin.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

HoangNhatAnh on 26 January 2018
Megiddo said:
HoangNhatAnh said:

Except some games on Switch outsold other systems as we see new article almost every week

Wait, what? What articles are you referring to? What AAA non-Nintendo games have sold more on the Switch than other systems?

Not AAA but indie especially games from the West. I said some games, didn't mention it is AAA. Non indie you can see Lego and Sonic games which sold the best on Nintendo system



Megiddo on 26 January 2018
HoangNhatAnh said:
Megiddo said:

Wait, what? What articles are you referring to? What AAA non-Nintendo games have sold more on the Switch than other systems?

Not AAA but indie especially games from the West. I said some games, didn't mention it is AAA. Non indie you can see Lego and Sonic games which sold the best on Nintendo system

Right, but my original post (the one you quoted) said specifically AAA non-Nintendo games. We're talking about games like Skyrim since this is a thread about Skyrim sales between two platforms. How well some indie platformers or kid-friendly games like Lego and Sonic do on the Switch has nothing to do with how a title like Skyrim would perform in terms of sales.