How much of the PS4 and One's Success is due to EA's Support?

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Salnax said:

This is sort of an ended question. I was thinnking about how EA's lack of Wii U support has been pretty bad news or that platform, and was wondering about the opposite kind of question for the other Gen 8 consoles.

 

Here's a look at all 11 million-seller games for the PS4 and Xbone combined.

 

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	2.02	1.63
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	1.65	1.24
FIFA Soccer 14	2013	Electronic Arts	1.71	0.81
Assassin's Creed 4	2013	Ubisoft	1.49	0.72
Killzone: Shadow Fall	2013	Sony	1.57	0
NBA 2K14	2013	Take-Two	0.8	0.52
Forza 5	2013	Microsoft	0	1.16
Need For Speed Rivals	2013	Electronic Arts	0.82	0.33
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		1.11
Madden NFL 25	2013	Electronic Arts	0.59	0.51
Knack	2013	Sony	1.01	0

 

Out of the eleven games for the "8 GB of RAM" consoles that have broken a million, five of them are from just EA, including one of the One's two exclusives. That makes EA the biggest publisher in this market by a huge margin, considering that they are bigger than Microsoft and Sony combined.

 

Total PS4 & One Game Sales: 26.57 million

Total PS4 & One 1st Party Game Sales: 6.34 million

Total PS4 & One EA Game Sales: 9.1 million

 

What do you think? Has the general success of the PS4 and Xbox One been largely due to EA's strong support of these platforms? And if so, can the argument be made that 3rd party publishers have the power to choose which hardware succeeds?

I didn't even realize this was still up for debate. Except maybe for the Wii, 3rd parties decide every generation.