Titanfall exclusivity proved to be (quite) pointless

[sales2099]

BMaker11 said:

sales2099 said:

Squeezol said:

I must say that I think making Titanfall an Xbox One exclusive didn't do much good. It didn't boost the XOne sales that much and this should've had the freedom to be on PS4 as well. Microsoft probably had to pay a lot to keep it exclusive but in the end it proved to be not worth the effort. I personally also hate the way Microsoft seems to think that by just making something exclusive everyone will buy an XOne (that's at least what I seem to get out of their behaviour towards Titanfall), but that's a different discussion.

I could list the sheer amount of PS3 exclusives that outright bombed and caused studio closures. That said......you shouldn't blame the company for trying.

Its a multiplat not on PS4. It boosted X1 sales, and is selling millions. Nuff said. Yet another bitter not-on-PS4 rant.....until Titanfall 2 coems along. Then you guys will magically love it, just like you guys now magically love Bungie ;)

Technically, it didn't (VGC numbers were wrong). Only reason March's NPD had higher numbers than February for XBone was because March had 5 weeks of data and February only had 4. But weekly sales-wise, February was the better month (not to mention, you don't know if the cause behind March's sales can be attributed to TF....or the price cuts at Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc). And TF sales are dropping off quickly. Granted, the XBone only has 4.2M and the game is sitting at a 32% attach rate, it should obviously sell more as the XBone install base increases....but Xbone's sales are about to hit pre-TF levels soon and it doesn't have the install base, right now, to have strong legs like a CoD would (after selling like 10M at launch, then going on to sell another 7-8 million). I'm not agreeing with the OP here. Exclusives are necessary in order to distinguish one console from another. They aren't pointless. You're just wrong in some of your points here. And I'd like to see this "sheer number" of studios that closed due to PS3 exclusives bombing. There weren't many notable 3rd party PS3 exclusives last gen, so I can't think of any studios that closed due to that. One the 1st party side, I can only think of Zipper and Incognito that got closed after PS3 games, although MS closed Ensemble and FASA after 360 games, so that's pretty much a wash.

And I guess no one on the Xbox side is looking forward to (magically, as you say) Sunset Overdrive?

In our defense, FUSE kinda turned us off to Insomniac. Just happy we stole them away is all ;). And COD never picked up until its 3rd entry in the 7th gen (after COD 2 and 3). Titanfall is surely off to a great start for T2 to knock it out of the park when its multiplat on PS4/X1