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S.T.A.G.E. on 04 October 2017
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walsufnir said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Exclusives keep mindshare consistent. Its the main reason why the Xbox sales have been dropping all year. Theres nothing to keep the mindshare up. Highly antificpated exclusives keep sales consistent over an extended period of time. 

I think it's a thing that originates at the beginning of the generation: Sony won. They were and are consistently cheap, get their marketing deals right and their exclusive contents right. They chose to do Destiny marketing and that game really was a blockbuster. They even were successful with watch_dogs, funny as it is. The Star Wars marketing also was a big win in the end.

I said it before: Look which games are sold at most. It's the third party games mostly. The crowd out there doesn't care about forum wars or list wars, they buy the "big" games which are advertised to hell. Sony has the champions league deal for ages and thus is associated to Fifa, one of the biggest games to be on consoles.

It's good to have games like Journey or Puppeteer or even Bloodborne and Bloodborne was a success but how is the attach rate of Bloodborne? This site lists it at no. 40...

Sony has more brand appeal in the world than Microsoft by default. They built up a high level name. Blu Ray is what theyve been invested in and now Microsoft is following. Third parties sell the most, but there are dry months to the year and Sony and Nintendo were wise to relocate theier games to correspond with those months opposed to the old fourth quarter when exclusives could survive. In Sonys case its worked. Microsoft hasnt had much to offer and without third party help they honestly dont have much in the tank for the rest of the gen. Sony covers the bases that they need to so that when they make deals outside of themselves they have all of their bases covered. Microsoft can make a great console with great online...but thats it. How they get their games does not show off how great they are as a developer. They acquired Halo and they acquired Gears. These are their two pillar franchises and both devs have nothing to do with them anymore. Think about it.

 

P.S. 

 

Microsoft did a lot of anti consumer crap at the beginning of this gen.

1st strike: Force bundling the Kinect agianst the will of the consumer.

2nd strike: Possibly imposing drm that would block used game sales.

3rd strike: Their launch price was $500 vs a more powerful console which sold for less. 

Plus Sony makes more games and won back a lot of gamers last gen when Microsoft couldnt run with the ball because their exclusives are lacking and because of that it couldnt keep their mindshare consistent.