Without any heavy-hitting exclusives right now, it seems that a third-party multiplatform game has had the most positive effect on PlayStation 4 sales.
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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I got the PS4 for The Last of Us Remastered and Uncharted 4. As a bonus I get to play Infamous: Second Son/First Light, Drive Club, The Order 1886, Bloodborne etc so I would say Naughty Dog is the PS4's Top System Seller. Don't give a damn about Destiny or any console FPS, I have a Monster PC for that.
"Without any heavy-hitting exclusives right now..."
Wow. Well that saved me from bothering to read the article.
Sir, I reject your premise.
Destiny is also on XBox One, and from what I hear, has near identical visuals. Why would it not be a system seller there as well?
(Or is it the timed exclusive content that is the system seller? Seems doubtful.)
Right now it probably is
People continue to act as though Multiplats aren't important but they sell more consoles than exclusives by a mile.