Will the PS4's First/Second-Party be more influential to hardware sales than with the PS3?

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Torillian said:

Jay520 said:

kowenicki said:
Less. Fairly obvious given that Sony themselves have stated they have too many studios, which they have since followed up with closure of studios.

See above. The studios that Sony did close (Zipper, BigBig, etc) weren't significant this gen. So their loss won't be a noteworthy loss.

I would've agreed with you until Studio Liverpool got shut down, but now I can't.  Maybe I'm overestimating the importance of Wipeout HD, but it was significant to me, that's for sure.

OT: I think yes, but only because 3rd party exclusives will become fewer and fewer, so they'll be more infleuntial by comparison.  

well they kept 2/3 of the staff but relocated them I think. And the studio was 200 or so members. too big if you ask me given the output they had. I feel that sony is currently trying to trim the fat so to speak and reallocate the resources to focus on projects with more sales potential. I'm sure we will see another Wipeout sooner or later :)