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QuintonMcLeod on 28 September 2014
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DonFerrari said:
Ka-pi96 said:
QuintonMcLeod said:


You say Nintendo will make money from 3rd parties, but Sony nor Microsoft are making money with them. Yoshida himself said they make very little money from software sales.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/07/04/shuhei-yoshida-only-four-out-of-ten-playstation-games-make-money-but-sony-will-always-support-talent/

So, what's the real solution?

The point I'm trying to make here is that the comparison isn't fair. A better comparison would be to compare the software sales of both the PS4 and the Wii U's exclusives. 

The article you linked to is actually about Sony's 1st party games, so nothing to do with 3rd parties at all...
Both Sony and Microsoft make most of their money from 3rd party platfrom royalties.

The comparison is fair. Consoles aren't just exclusive games, there are other games as well...
If we were comparing Sony and Nintendo as publishers then yeah only count exclusives. But we aren't, we are comparing software sales of the consoles. And regardless of who made/published the games they have still sold on PS4.

And we have several threads on publisher selling with Nintendo usually coming on top with EA, Activision, Ubisoft following then usually Sony... and when we see that the big 3rd parties sell a lot on Xboxes and very good on PSs and really poor on Ninties you can see why 3rd parties avoid putting most of their titles on Ninty platforms.

Well, it honestly depends. There's a lot of poor selling games on the PS3/X360 that are graced with sequels all the time. The 3DS version of Resident Evil Revelations will see a sequel on every system but a Nintendo system, even though the 3DS version was the highest selling version. There's plenty of examples that prove that sales aren't really the issue here.