Are you? Actually you shouldn't be, this late in the cycle, big games sell to the userbase instead of increasing the userbase. Except the game is entirely different than everything before on this platform.

I agree.

Indeed

and the fact that is still $300 base/$400 Pro.

The fact that it took this long for saturation to become very apparent is crazy.

Spider-Man or no Spider-Man, this 5 year old console is still selling at $299. No specific game bundle is going to make a jaw dropping difference in numbers from here on, not even RDR2. Only price drops are going to increase or continue the sales trend that exists. A $50-$100 drop this holiday and going forward will be necessary.

when you look at the numbers and think that in Japan for almost every 1000 people that come out of game stores with a Switch, one guy comes through the crowd holding an Xbox 1.

It must feel pretty special to be that guy... real Special.

Spiderman has a lot of TV advertising over here in the EU though, can't get through a show without seeing a advert for it and possibly information about bundled console to go with it, while I agree with you that the game will be bought by a ton of the 80million strong ps4 fanbase, you have to admit that Sony/MS/Nintendo don't invest in these huge titles to sell software, they do it to sell hardware, if software was the goal then they would make the game and sell it on all 3 platforms.

Oh wow almost 100k for ps4 in Europe.
Wondering when will the ps4 get its next official price-cut, maybe next year.

I'll be honest, as a fan of gaming, marvel and the playstation I love it, it's a whole bunch of the things I love all being shoved down peoples throats :D makes a difference from f'ing car insurance adverts and comparing various meerkats.

I think that you could be right that the ps4 isn't going to double the numbers in any particular week all of a sudden, but I think as we get closer to Christmas having the titles there like God of War and Spiderman from this year might help peoples choices in asking Santa what to bring them, sure it wont have a huge surge in system sales right off the bat, but I think the long term goal of the game will be to keep the PS4 from declining as long as possible considering it's already in the 5th year but it's still selling like a spring chicken, Sony are gonna wanna keep that happening for as long as possible especially when you consider that at this point in the generation they've probably got the manufacture of the ps4slim model down to the lowest cost to Sony per system so the profits will be greater now than ever if they can keep the train rolling.

Why were people expecting this to move consoles? The only bundle available for it is a $400 bundle with the PS4 Pro. Now if it was bundled with a 1TB base PS4 at $299 that would have been a different matter.

Yes I don't see any price cut this year neither.