CGI-Quality said:
koffieboon said:
CGI-Quality said:
koffieboon said:
So you reason that by making those games only available on 360 all of a sudden 360 owners will flock to the stores to pick up these games? While they didn't show this behavior although the game is just as available on their platform when being a multiplatform game? I'm sorry, but that simply doesn't make sense. |
But it does. Think about it, had GTA IV been a PS3 exclusive from the get go, would it have sold better AND lots of PS3s? I would think so.
When you believe there's only going to be one version, you're more inclined to pick it up. Why do you think Halo Wars and Gears 2 aren't on PC? Maximizing sales!!! Microsoft knows what they're doing, which is why I can see where disolitude is coming from.
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We're talking about third parties here, moving hardware is not their problem. And an exclusive GTA IV would have sold millions of copies less than the multiplatform version. So how would that help Take Two?
No, you're not more inclined to pick up a game when it is only on 1 platform. The only difference is that if you want to buy the game you only have 1 available platform to choose from. And Microsoft is not third party, so of course they want to move their hardware.
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How not? Exclusives will convince folks on the fence about picking up a system, to go and pick it up. Take GTA III for instance, was it not the breakout PS2 hit? It was what move LOTS of PS2s. I have NO doubt GTA IV would have done the same for PS3.
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This thread isn't about hardware sales, it is about software sales. No doubt an exclusive will sell more on one platform when it is exclusive, but this is more than offset by the loss of all the sales on the other platforms.
