I didn't say I think that Xbox will sell 2:1 next gen. Why is comprehension such a hard thing on this forum?
The knock on effect of games selling bigger numbers on the console that wins the battle of getting all the players that play the biggest yearly games on their console you mean? That does happen. The console that becomes the defacto for all of the "filthy casuals" as this forum would refer to them, the ones that but FIFA/COD/Madden/NBA every year and play fortnite and minecraft, they're the ones that drive sales of the console. More sales = more game sales. Why do you think games tend to sell more at the end of the generation? Spider Man wouldn't have sold 20 million had it come out in 2014 or 2015. It sold that much because the install base was there, built up over years and years by the people buying COD/Madden/FIFA/NBA/etc.
The stats aren't mine so I'm not going to rebut your questioning of them. I quoted a figure, was asked for receipts, I brought receipts. If you guys want to question it, shoot the research company that did it your list of questions. I didn't claim to have done the research or know their methodology, I just quoted their research findings.
Sony don't own the Spider Man IP.
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Since you laughed I am going to assume you think Sony
do own the Spider Man IP, so I'll give you a few links to read and then a tl;dr version:
Recently, negotiations between Sony and Marvel broke down over the rights to Spider-Man. Here is the full story of how Sony came to own the rights to Spider-Man in the first place.
www.cinemablend.com
In the nineties Marvel licensed film rights of well-known superheroes to film companies, including X-Men to 20th Century Fox and Spider-Man to Sony Pictures.
www.briffa.com
Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man on the big screen but when it comes to the web-slinger in video games, who is the one responsible?
apptrigger.com
tl;dr: Marvel own everything related to the spider man IP. Sony currently have a exclusive usage rights to spider man for movies. If they do not have a spider man movie in production/release every x amount of years, they lose the movie rights. The Spider Man IP is wholly owned by Marvel/Disney.