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theprof00 on 24 October 2012
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phenom08 said:
theprof00 said:

I get caught up in exaggeration sometimes. Oop, it seems I didn't clarify something else though. Let me do that now.

psp had some very good 3pexclusives that helped them stay in the game. 3DS still doesn't really have the quality of third party exclusive games that PSP had, but they still have more third party exclusive games than VITA does currently. My point here was that third party exclusives aren't what keeps a system competitive, citing that psp is an exception because its third party was strikingly good, while supporting my statement by saying that 3ds has more 3pexclusives than vita, though it's not those games that are selling the systems.

I agree with some of what you are saying but there are things you are ignoring. PS1, PS2, and PSP all benefited greatly from 3rd party exclusives. Timed exclusives count as well because not many people are going to wait a year for one game when they can already pick it up on another platform. We have seen what happens when Sony doesn't have many 3rd party exclusives (PS3, Vita). PS3 worked thanks to Sony supporting it with 1st party titles, it still sold far less than PS1 and PS2 though. Vita, well Vita is the Vita. The point is, you support a company that's been relying on 3rd party support for a while, and now we see what happens to Sony platforms without much 3rd party support like the Wii.

Oh, I'm not missing anything that isn't directly important to mention. While ps1,2, and psp are good counter-examples, they don't make ps3,wii, or xbox disappear. What it does prove is that 'some consoles need 3rd party exclusives, others do not'. But again, this is not me saying that vita will be fine without 3pexclusives, but that in this short timeframe (factoring in announcement time periods, title shifting, etc) of jan-april 2013, there not being any BIG titles (the 4-5 smaller games that he refuses to acknowledge because of being downloadable titles or not big enough) is not a problem that warrants such scrutiny.

The problem, not to deride your own point, is that we aren't "seeing what happens when sony doesn't have many 3rd party exclusives", we are looking at really just a few months in a brief period of time and using ONLY exclusives to support it. PS3 did not rely on third party exclusives, but it did get quite a bit of help from third party multiplats like, gta4, ff13, which again, is only more counter-evidence to the OP. Third party EXCLUSIVES are not the whole case.

In the end, I could just rewrite this same sentence over and over without giving as much clarity, but it boils down to "It's all about the library". It's not all about the 3rd party exclusives, or the first party exclusives, or the 1st party g

It's all about the library.