Quite surprised Xbox isn't getting many 3rd party exclusives in 2009

[Ail]

CGI-Quality said:
@ Ail

I do understand, but what do you think GTA IV would have sold on PS3 or 360 as exclusives?

 

At best in the wildest dream it would have reached a WW attach rate of 30% on the given platform.

You can't really do more with the different demographics of each platform...( and even that is hard because in countries like Japan the game doesn't do so well).

 

So somewhere south of 10 million units on the 360 and around 7-8 million units on the PS3 ( I'm convinced the exclusivity would have boosted PS3 hardware more than 360 hardware due to the fact that last gen it was a PS game..).

 

But we're speaking GTA4, for more medium less known games/franchises, going exclusive just loose you the gamers of one platform with little benefit ( because Microsoft isn't going to pick up the marketing tab of every game and the majority of gamers aren't as shallow as on this site and won't pick a title over another because it's exclusive and the other isn't. They will pick the better/more fun title and that's it).