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QuintonMcLeod on 26 October 2014
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Ka-pi96 said:
QuintonMcLeod said:
Ka-pi96 said:

What about the PS4 though, most if it's sales have come off the back of multplat games rather than exclusives. Proof that multiplats do sell consoles.

I'm really not too sure, and neither is Sony. Sony even said themselves they didn't know why the PS4 was selling so well. My guess would be that initial momentum Sony had a year ago. Some are predicting that momentum will end soon. As for me, I honestly just don't know.

What's not to know? They just made the console people wanted. If Microsoft hadn't screwed up their launch as much then the total numbers for PS+Xbox would still be about the same just with Xbox having a higher percentage.

Exclusives aren't needed to sell consoles, the highest selling games on most consoles are usually multiplats.

I think you're basing this from what you've been seeing this generation. That's fine and all, but the video game industry spans back over 30 years, and according to 30+ years of historical data, exclusives sell systems. This is also the case with other mediums such as VHS vs Betamax and etc. The content was on VHS, so it sold better.

As for console gaming, there's a significant shift in console gaming sales. The console market is shrinking, while the PC gaming market is growing (and very rapidly). I don't believe that the PS4 sold because it was the console people wanted. I think people felt that perhaps there was no other console solution to go to other than the PS4. As the months went by, gamers started to realize that their games weren't running in the fidelity they were promised and began migrating over to the PC.