That makes perfect sense.. A big game will move consoles... If it's a multiplat, it'll move both consoles or the console with better marketing. Why did Destiny sell so much systems despite it being on multiple consoles?
While the success isn’t entirely unexpected – Sony was calling the game a system seller when Destiny had been out for just one day – the fact that it appears to have blitzed through sales predictions completely is. SCEA’s VP of developer and publisher relations Adam Boyes explained that,
“The game broke records for being the fastest purchased and most played PS4 game during its first week on sale. In fact, last week was our single biggest PS4 hardware sales week since Christmas 2013.”
Boyes even went on to say that Destiny is “the fastest purchased and most played PS4 game [to date].” That would usually be bad news for other console exclusives like inFamous: Second Son as people would ask ‘what went wrong for those games for them not to sell a huge amount of systems’ but here it’s quite the opposite.
Instead it highlights a smart business move from Sony. Arguably the thunderous chatter surrounding Destiny and the fact that it’s “the most shared and most broadcasted PS4 game during its first week on sale” were helpful to PS4 sales but the exclusive Destiny content and the PlayStation beta, along with the fact that Microsoft were prohibited from marketing the game for Xbox consoles, were likely the biggest factors.
So Destiny fastest selling PS4 game, made PS4 move the most units since the Christmas before it and it's not a system seller??
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