Sony exclusives that went multiplat have largely failed

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theprof00 said:

wilco said:

So what exactly is this thread supposed to prove? Is it meant to show that Sony fans will punish developers for giving up exclusivity?

Are Sony fans really so petty that they would refuse to buy a good game just because it also came out on a rival system?

Don't know why you're getting huffy. One of my explanations was multiple console owners simply buying the game out of convenience of the console they play the most. Secondly, these games usually existed to sell consoles. A person who doesn't have to buy the console just buys it on the system they own. It's not sony fans not buying the games, it's people who COULD be buying the games on a sony platform buying them on something else INSTEAD.

It also affects hype. A game that is exclusive tends to get more hype. It's not the gamer punishing devs, they're just not getting as hyped and blitzed by media. Media loves exclusives, not multiplats, and best-friend gamers talk aboute xclusives too.

that makes no sense, if all those people who didnt buy say Tekken for 360 and instead bought it for PS3. Then the numbers still would be lower than Tekken 5. So what would you say then? That is even taking into account those xbox fans would have bought it anyway. Maybe they bought it on 360 because they have NO PS3 and was just happy to play it on something they have, it being exclusive would have lost Namco a sale or two. And no they werent spending money to buy a PS3 to play it.