Jereel Hunter said:
I mean, at all. Yes, price is a reason to get it instead of an X1, if you must have one. But if there isn't a single exclusive you want, then there's little real incentive to even get a PS4/Xbox yet. For most people, even the early adopters, there is at least 1 launch exclusive to make someone purchase the system. |
That's wishful thinking on your part.
People buy new gen consoles because the graphical difference is substantial.
Don't pretend like there isn't a reason to get a ps4. Not only is it HOT to have a new console, especially the ps4 with all the word of mouth and difficulty in getting one. YOu don't need an exclusive to buy the console, as you can plainly see by loooking what the top sellers are.
Guess what the best selling game early in 360's life was? call of duty 2. People upgraded in order to play a multiplat.
| Title | North America | Europe | Japan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amped 3 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Call of Duty 2 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Condemned: Criminal Origins | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Every Party | No | No | Yes |
| FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gun | Yes | Yes | No |
| Kameo: Elements of Power | Yes | Yes | No |
| Madden NFL 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| NBA 2K6 | Yes | No | No |
| NBA Live 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Need for Speed: Most Wanted | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NHL 2K6 | Yes | No | No |
| Perfect Dark Zero | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie | Yes | Yes | No |
| Project Gotham Racing 3 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Quake 4 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ridge Racer 6 | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tetris: The Grandmaster ACE | No | No | Yes |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | Yes | Yes | No |
The only exclusives here were perfect dark zero, kameo, and pgr, yet neither of them managed to exceed 220k in the first week, and the very best was 300k in a month.
Only three exclusives out of that list.
You see, it's not exclusivity that sells. It's the games. Perfect Dark Zero was an 81 metacritic, PGR was 88, and kameo was 79, yet the best selling was not pgr, it was perfect dark. Why? Because it was made by the same people that made goldeneye. So you see, it's not about exclusivity. It's about desirability. PGR was the highest rated game in that whole group.
Every multiplat on there was also on ps2 and xbox. Yet multiplats outsold the exclusives on xbox360.
Just listen to the facts: Every multiplat that outsold exclusives were on average rated lower than the exclusives. That should tell you something.
People upgrade because they want to. Not because of exclusive games. Perfect Dark just so happened to be an exclusive. Even had it not been exclusive, people would have still bought it because it would have looked infinitely better than the other consoles. That's not to say they would have outsold the other console's sales, but that they would have sold well, and sold systems, which they did, like call of duty 2, need for speed most wanted, and madden. Funny how those three games represent 3 of the biggest franchises in gaming. It's not a coincidence they sold better.
