Circana (NPD) US sales December 2023 - PS5 (#1 for both) NSW (#2 for both) XBS #3 / MW3#1, Mario Wonder#2, Madden 24#3

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Entry point don’t matter. Fortnight pulling in more money than any full priced game on the market.

And no, price doesn't matter when it comes to engagement.
This is false. More people will try a sub 20$ game than a full priced 60$-70$ game.

Come on son

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Hardware numbers don't hold as much relevance to Microsoft as it does to Nintendo and Sony. The sheer fact that Microsoft is day and date on PC and console determines that fact. It is possible that someone could own every Microsoft produced game this generation yet never own an Xbox console. The same can't be said for the other console manufacturers and their self-produced games. Their games are made for closed ecosystems to grow numbers. I've played more Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield on my Rog Ally than I did on the Xbox Series X that I own. The console from Microsoft is just another means of delivery for games, not the only means of delivery for games.
 

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“try” =/= “spend time actually playing the game”

Lots of games that are for “sale” get played played once and thrown in the bushes
Try = engagement.

Word to all those Starfield folks who never got the first achievement but were counted in the “total players played” stat

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Ms trying to set up a mobile gaming subscription to get those 100m gameass subs lyin ass Phil promised when the majority of mobile games have no interest in streaming/playing AAA games on their mobiles and will continue playing f2p games.
 

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Try = engagement.

Word to all those Starfield folks who never got the first achievement but were counted in the “total players played” stat

:manny:
Starfield has more playtime than BG3 and probably the most playtime of any single player game this year.

That number isn’t made by people trying the game for an hour and turning it off. That number is built by people spending lots of time playing the game.

As an anecdote my son got a PS5 with Same man 2 and cac fantasy for christmas. He “tried” same man, but had actually spent lots more hours “engaged” with cac fantasy :manny:
 

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Starfield has more playtime than BG3 and probably the most playtime of any single player game this year.

That number isn’t made by people trying the game for an hour and turning it off. That number is built by people spending lots of time playing the game.

As an anecdote my son got a PS5 with Same man 2 and cac fantasy for christmas. He “tried” same man, but had actually spent lots more hours “engaged” with cac fantasy :manny:
Yet he (or you) had to pay 70 to “try” Spider-Man.

Not everyone is paying 70 to see if they like a game. Folks are much more likely to try a F2P game
 
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