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Zekkyou on 30 July 2014
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sales2099 said:
Zekkyou said:

It's not a PS4 exclusive, but it is a PlayStation exclusive. Same way FH2 isn't an X1 exclusive, but it is an Xbox exclusive. If someone wants to play either of those games they're going to have to enter MS/Sony's gaming ecosystem. That's a win for them either way (and why they've opted to do it).

TitanFall on the other hand is on PC, a platform outside MS's gaming ecosystem. They may own Windows, but they don't get royalties from games sales, they don't gain any potential sales from a new Xbox owner and don't have the opportunity to sell them XBL. Unlike the purchase of FH2 or LBP3, no console maker profits from a sale on PC. In-fact that PC sale is a lost potential console sale.

Brand exclusives pose less value to an individual platform than a "true" exclusive, but a lot more than something on PC.

Yep, guess were going the platform exclusives route instead of true exclusive route. Of that I am happy to hear at least.

The Titanfall explanation (and subsequently its banishment from a Xbox 1 list comparison), just isn't right though. It can't be on the list, yet it is the highest selling Xbox 1 game, it isn't available on PS4, and was a system seller. Do we just ignore that out of some technicality? That is my point. Titanfall is something that Xbox One has over PS4, and we are to sweep it under the rug? But we count FH2 and LBP3 just because their multiplats on previous generations (but not exclusives all the same)?

TF wasn't "banished" .There are no universal parameters for what can and can't be done. There is no handbook of rules limiting which types of comparisons can be made. No "lol i'm not really on 2 other platforms" cards for games that sell well.

Contrary to the opinions of this strawman you have invented to represent non-MS fans, there is no controversy. There are different lists for comparing different things, same as always. Heck, i included both console and true exclusive graphs in my metacritic thread last year. Why? Because they're different things.

Brand exclusives do add more potential value to a brand than something available to anyone with a PC armed with 4GB of RAM and a mid range GPU from 5 years ago, but ultimately they're still multi-plats.