| lultor said: I guess ill explain a few things in a simple way: Exclusives will bring people to a console wether its 1st party or 3rd party, and it will benefit the console maker double if their 1st party titles are the main attraction as they make a big profit on game sales aswell as producing more console sales. The reason people say wii 1st party titles dont count is because some people dont like the type of games nintendo produce, for THOSE PEOPLE ps3/xbox360 has a much better line of exclusives and therefor they will want those consoles to "win" until wii can show them the type of game they like aswell. So both people sides arguing in this thread are correct depending on which perspective you are looking from. |
Agreed. Exclusives are the ultimate system sellers (though with the Wii controls probably played a bigger part). Like GTA? You can get it for either PS360. Want MGS4 or GT5? Get a PS3. Bioshock/Halo gotta have 360. That was the point of the original article, Nintendo has a lot of helpful exclusives that they make and it helps them sell games. If Sony had been able to buy 50+% of Rockstar, there is no way GTA would be on a M$ console.
It's nice to see someone write about how important exclusives are to a console and realize that 1st and 2nd party titles are key (the orignal article that started this thread.) Nintendo always gets bashed for having so many successful 1st party games that 3rd parties can't compete. Great 1st party games kept them alive the last 2 gens (both of which they lost), and gave them a good library before AAA 3rd party titles would even go into development.
Exclusives built the Sony brand, but quite a few past system sellers have become multi plats. Sony & M$ need to bring a larger amount of high quality 1st and 2nd party games to the table, that way a PS3 might not have such a scary first year. Sony has a lot more than M$, with God of War, GT5, Ratchet & Clank, etc.
Sony's catching up now, but if M$ hadn't gotten any of the previous PS exclusive heavy hitters on their system, Sony would be in 3rd in this race. Why is M$ going after so many exclusive RPG's? To take some of that market that Sony has dominated the last 2 gens.
I mean really, 3 years ago who would've expected we'd be wondering if M$ could pull off selling the most copies of a GTA game?
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