Titanfall boosts Xbox One UK sales by 96%, Tea and Crumpets for all!

prwxv3 said:
nah they got paid. The real loosers are respawn unfortunately since they wanted to port it to PS4 later.
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No. Respawn's main goal was to make money and to create brand awareness. Which they did quite well in both departments. Titanfall is nothing but a success for the company.
 
Does MS have access to PS4 hardware sales? If they outsold the PS4 I think they would have said so. I could be wrong.
 
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BigSpleenAttack said:
Anyone who thinks TF is staying xbox exclusive is dillusional in my opinion, EA already must be realizing what a dumb decision that was. How can they take oN Destiny, COD with it being relegated to an xbox only game?
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Is there any precedent for a company breaking an exclusivity contract? None spring to mind. Point is it was a timed exclusive originally and despite PS4 sales EA signed up to make it a full exclusive.
 
The thread title makes it look like titanfall had a hand in the ps4 sales increase lol, thats how it reads.

If ps4 sales rose 72% in the same week the x1 rose 96% with titanfall coming out thats pretty bad for ms.
 
Riky said:
Is there any precedent for a company breaking an exclusivity contract? None spring to mind. Point is it was a timed exclusive originally and despite PS4 sales EA signed up to make it a full exclusive.
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Not sure if there was ever an exclusivity contract, but people thought so with Square Enix and Final Fantasy XIII.
 
Riky said:
Is there any precedent for a company breaking an exclusivity contract? None spring to mind. Point is it was a timed exclusive originally and despite PS4 sales EA signed up to make it a full exclusive.
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Sounds like this deal went in place before the new consoles were shown, when EA thought the Xbox was going to clobber Playstation.
 
PS4 was beating X1 3:1 right?
So PS4 sales >>>>> X1 sales even on the week of Titanfall's release in the UK?
Not good news for X1 IMO.
 
Guymelef said:
Pretty sure XBO did better than PS4 last week, low stock and Killzone didn't chart.
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I will be very interested to see if that's the case. Whatever the speculation, those numbers should be very intriguing.

Edit: This thread title change, funny as it may be, seems to be absolutely destroying this thread. I appreciate the joke, but maybe let's change it as it seems to be creating a lot of confusion for whatever reason.
 
DBT85 said:
In isolation from the PS4, the Xbone sales are great in comparison to pretty much every previous console release ever. That should not be understated at all.

The issue that some see is that it is already out in its two strongest markets (NA & UK), where the 360 held a 3:2 advantage over the PS3. It was those two markets that tipped the scales to keep PS360 sales at parity at the end of last gen with circa 80m each. The Xbox brand is weaker in (I think) every other country on the planet. The Xbone is already out in the ones that really paid the 360 any great attention at all. So the quantity of markets it is available in isn't really going to do much for its sales.

So far this gen, the PS4 is narrowly beating the Xbone in the US, is about 3:2 in the UK, and more in other countries. The Xbone doesn't have the territories secured to drive to parity of adoption and the PS4 is heavily supply limited despite selling better. The thinking being that as the gap widens between the two machines, less 3rd party games will get Xbone ports, devs might put less effort in and so the reasons to get one gets smaller as time rolls on.

Frankly, it's just interesting to see the seachange in public perception from one generation to the next. People who were PS2 gamers but 360s first, people who were 360 gamers bought the PS4 first.



It all depends on how much margin we think they have. If we think they can drop to £400 in the UK and still break even on the hardware, then £300 + a game is £100+ a go. If they did that worldwide for say 6 months before they could get the BOM down, that's say 6m units sold at a cost to them of £600m. Fine, they get money from games, lets say £15 a game, 2.8 games per unit sold, Still only £252m. add in the Gold sub at £60 for the roughly what, 50% of people that buy Gold?, Thats another £180m. Still £168m shy.

All depends on numbers we just don't know.
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Fair points though I do feel should the XBOX1 continue on its current trajectory MS will eat that £168m just to get more units into homes even at a loss. Guess we'll have to wait & see though I don't expect it until at least August/September time.
 
Riky said:
Is there any precedent for a company breaking an exclusivity contract? None spring to mind. Point is it was a timed exclusive originally and despite PS4 sales EA signed up to make it a full exclusive.
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i think he means future Titanfall games.
 
BigBearJohnson said:
It is definitely disappointing. I wish it was doing better because it has some really good games right now that I think deserve better recognition.
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It's not doing badly enough to blame the system's performance for individual games going under the radar. Absent of context (competition and expectation), it's selling very well, actually. All systems have games that don't get the recognition they deserve, unfortunately.
 
BRocknRolla said:
I will be very interested to see if that's the case. Whatever the speculation, those numbers should be very intriguing.

Edit: This thread title change, funny as it may be, seems to be absolutely destroying this thread. I appreciate the joke, but maybe let's change it as it seems to be creating a lot of confusion for whatever reason.
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No one is confused. There are just a couple of people who are annoyed by it because they are too serous about console warz to find it humorous.
 
Still don't have enough information to really make out how much good news there is here for MS. Sales were likely suppressed in the prior week due to the announcement of the Titanfall bundle, so some of this is just bounceback. The real tell will be whether its sales are sustained, and that sustained level is higher than what it was doing before. That said, I think it's likely they got a good sales bump overall. (Independant of the PS4 news, which just indicates how much further behind MS would be if Sony had greater supply.)
 
Fletcher said:
Yeah. I'm sure it hurts.

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Not only did it make them as a company a lot of money, but they were pretty much guaranteed funding of whatever they decide to do next.
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So you think they are happy they prob are missing out on more the double the profit and user base, and damaging any chance it had against The big FPS titans coming this year? Not to mention the damage is prob already done with it being associated with the xbox brand ala Final Fantasy sales on xbox.
 
Jomjom said:
No one is confused. There are just a couple of people who are annoyed by it because they are too serous about console warz to find it humorous.
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You know? I just don't know if I can tell the difference anymore... There's evidently a fine line between willful misunderstanding and actual misunderstanding these days.
 
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