PS4's total software sales surpass those of Wii U

[DonFerrari]

QuintonMcLeod said:

DonFerrari said:

Ka-pi96 said:

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.

Maybe what you consider poor sales are enough to break even in those games. And even if a specific game bomb on PS3/X360 and get no sequel, the next game from that dev will come to both unless exclusivity is bought from any of the big 3. One game don't nullify the trend. And if you go and look there is no handheld (even from sony) so it was going to be deved just for consoles. On consoles Wii don't have enough power to compete with the 4 where it is being dev, so we just would need to figure why they jumped WiiU (and you know the audience for 3DS is different than WiiU right, that even justifies the gap in sales between both...) possibly because 3rd parties have sold poorly in WiiU or they didn't wanted to dev on gamepad, but could just be a stupid reason that they never cared explaining.