Sony's Woes Show Just How Bad Nintendo's Are

[Mr Khan]

maxleresistant said:
Exclusive games have never been the only selling point of a console. So stop obsessin about it, PS4 is selling because she have all the biggest third party franchise, all the features that the gamers ask for and even more, and she is the most powerful of the 3.

Never? Every generation winner up until the PS4 has won on the strength of exclusives to a certain extent, PS2 being the iffy-ist of those, but still getting a hell of a lot of games that nobody even bothered making for Xbox or GameCube simply because it sold so much (though that's a chicken-or-the-egg). But exclusives were foundational to NES, SNES, PS1 (with the migrated 3rd party games), and especially Wii.

What this generation shows us is simply that critical hits don't sell consoles necessarily, but that's far away from meaning that exclusives don't sell consoles.