| BloodyRain said: Will having all these indies really tip the scale in terms of general consumers? I'm not sure how big the core is, prob pretty big, but makes up only a fraction of consoles.. Wouldn't it be the huge AAA titles that really push the systems. |
Of course Sony will have its first party AAA exclusives, too, but those take time to make and in the meanwhile they simply can't afford to fight Microsoft when it comes to buying up Titanfalls all over the place.
So they make a number of smaller bets, none of which will kill them if they lose and one or a few of which might actually hit it big. The more of these bets they make the better the chance that they may even stumble on the next "it" game, the next Minecraft or League of Legends or Puzzle & Dragons or what have you (though that is admittedly pretty doubtful because those games tend to get so big because they're on platforms that are already ubiquitous). Plus with just generally being an open and inviting platform, they will get a lot of games without having to spend one thin dime.
Whereas Microsoft is going to be talking up Titanfall every time it opens its collective piehole for the next year or so because they have $50 million riding on it, and a lot of people will be sick of hearing about it before it even releases. Hell, it's already kind of a joke ("Have you seen Titanfall?").
