June 2014 NPD Thread! PS4: 269k, XBO: 197k, Wii U: 140k

[mornelithe]

Intrinsic said:

mornelithe said:

BenVTrigger said:

PS4 also has probably the least amount of "next gen only" games in console transition history.

Once Uncharted and the other big next gen only game arrive it will pick back up again. There are still many people waiting. 

Is that true though Ben?  Not that I'm saying you're lying, I've just seen this stated allot lately, and as a Day 1 buyer of the PS3, I can't say this gen is any better or worse in the AAA exclusive category, in the first year.  I think all I'm seeing is that MUCH more indie games are showing up, than in the past, which seems to be giving everyone the impression that there are less major exclusives this gen, than last.

I could be wrong, of course, it was awhile ago.  But, yeah, have you really looked into the next gen only games launched for PS3/PS4 and compared?  Or is this just a perception thing?

I don't know about the PS2 or PS1, but I think they are right when compared to the PS3. I was gonna make an argument that this wasn't the case cause to me it really doesn't feel like I don't have games to play so I went about making a list.

Between nov 2006 and december 2007 of the PS3 a total of 33 exclusives were released. Thats 33!!!! Now like a third of those games were either Japan only, or an eyetoy game eg Eye of judgement, but there were still a total of 33 games. And this isn't adding indie projects like flow or corss gen exclusives like Ninja gaiden sigma.

However, if you look at the list of the 360 or wii over the same period, they all had a similar number of exclusives too. Simple deduction, there were more companies making games back then. There were also a lot of failures too, then most of those companies closed down. Sad....

While you're probably right, it's rather disingenuous to be comparing a 13 month games library, to a 7 month games library, don't you think?  Wouldn't it be more appropriate to judge Nov 2006 to July 2007?