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Darmik posted...

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except they dont need exclusives to turn things around. people dont fucking buy consoles for uncharted and persona 5

Games like Uncharted, The Last of Us, BOTW, Mario Odyssey etc. absolutely do sell consoles.

The fucking Xbox probably wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for a certain exclusive the brand launched with.

let's take halo 3 as an example (im assuming you're referring to halo). halo 3 sold around 11 or 12 million copies and around 90 million 360s were sold. that means like 85% of 360 owners never bought halo 3.

i was wrong. the most popular games of all time may sell around 10-15% of consoles

That's still 10 million people who may have never bought a 360 otherwise. That's a massive chunk of people that brought the 360 into the zeitgeist and helped make it into the mainstream console of that generation (until around 2009 when things started to equal out). Consoles rely on gaining momentum. Exclusives like Halo and Gears most certainly helped Xbox do that.

The Xbox 360 didn't reach 10 million consoles sold until mid 2008 btw. Despite this Halo 3 was the best selling game in 2007. It launched in September. You seriously think this was irrelevant to the 360's success?

That's figure is close to being a third of the current Xbox One userbase. That isn't some low figure to scoff at.
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Darmik