Bayonetta 2: Developers Explain Why They Sided With Nintendo

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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Play4Fun said:

New/niche games have a better chance of selling well on a new console. Customers are more open-minded at that time than they are mid to late gen.

If it was on PS360, it would probably have sold worse than the first considering how saturated the sales of those consoles are thanks to a gen that has been going on to long.

Even if this was true, putting the title on all three consoles would still result in the most sales.

It depends on thre marketing and so on.  Sometimes, by being an exclusive, you get added marketing and focus put on it, and it leads to more sales.  It would be suspect that Gears of War, for example, if it was multiplatform, would of done as well as it did.  There is a chance it would of fell into the Bulletstorm level, had it not been for the marketing campaign of Microsoft.  Being an exclusive makes a title special.  Besides the lower costs, going exclusive can end up getting the game attention it needs.