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AG80 on 27 July 2015
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NightDragon83 said:
MikeRox said:
 

It still cracks me up. People on this forum constantly bang on about the importance of exclusives and first party. Yet throughout gaming history, with the exception of a few notable titles and Nintendo, 3rd party always has and pretty much always will be the driving force of the industry.

Hell the lack of 3rd party for Nintendo right now is clearly very damaging.

Yes a game like The Last of Us is cool, but when most gamers are playing Call of Duty, FIFA and Grand Theft Auto. Surely it's more important that you offer those titles?

Exactly.  In fact, one could make the argument that M$'s stable of 1st party exclusive franchises are much more crucial to their success and have a much greater impact on console sales than Sony's do, because IPs like Halo and Gears do far more for the sales of Xbox consoles than many of Sony 1st party exclusives like Killzone, God Of War, InFamous, Little Big Planet etc have.  Only Gran Tourismo has been the consistent 1st party console mover for Sony for every PlayStation generation.  Beyond that only Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot (when it was Sony exclusive) and Uncharted IPs have really moved consoles on a similar level to M$'s heavy hitters.  Even Jak & Daxter is way down the list on the PS2 software chart despite being a fan favorite IP.

That's a load of bullshit. MS have Halo, Gears and Forza as console movers, Sony has GT, Uncharted and God Of War, looks like they are not really that crucial to the success of Xbox (other than Halo, which is the only reason Xbox still exists). Should I make a list from VGC's sales database to tell you that? I thought, since you were so quick to list down PS4's best-selling games, you might as well take a look at XB1's best-selling games.

Oh, and on that note, PS4 has not yet recieved even one of Sony's big first-party heavy hitters, whle XB1 has alraedy got a Halo and two Forza games. But still, MS software sales are in no better position than Sony on eighth-gen consoles (rather, worse) despite them having already churned out their biggest cards o the table, while Sony saves their own for the future.