Titanfall will probably have some sort of a long tail, but more on PC and maybe 360. To be able to exploit the tail, you have to have a large pool of laggards that bite when the price is cut. Attach rate on Xbox One is apparently quite high already.I'm actually interested in seeing the tail on Titan Fall.
Also, Titanfall's long tail may be hurt somewhat by it being a multiplayer only game. For example, I have bought both Call of Duty Black Ops games, when I got them for cheap, but I never touched the multiplayer. Kinda weird, I admit, but it's not unreasonable to assume that consumption habits of late adopters differ from those of early adopters.
I don't think Sony needs to justify the purchase of PS4 by telling the consumers that they can only play Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy on PS4. It is quite enough that people want to play those games on PS4 (for whatever reason).Answered a bit in my previous post, but I'll expand on that. It's not about list wars, but rather generating that mind share of "well I can only play X, Y and Z games on PS4 " even though Joe Casual may not have explicit interest in buying games X Y or Z. Sony severely lacks that kind of mindshare anymore with only a handful of high profile first party titles from ND and GT that can actually pull it off.
You mean cost. The value is improving, when the games selection grows and you start finding first wave of games in bargain bins.The PS4 will probably take about a year. It will start to fall under but they'll get a big boost around September since it's an easy go-to gift and they'll undoubtedly have some very enticing packages available since the value of their hardware is rapidly declining.
What do you guys think about the production numbers of PS4? It looks like supply is the only thing holding PS4 back at the moment, and it's only half a year until next holiday season. With a million produced a month, Sony could sell 15M by end of 2014, but this could mean another supply constrained holiday season, and I'm not sure that's a good thing for Sony.
Are they waiting to be able to cut down manufacturing cost or are they just playing it safe?