| SWORDF1SH said: 1- They are losing 3rd party exclusives like exclusive advertising, exclusive DLC, timed DLC, timed exclusives and full exclusives because MS will lose more money if they have to pay to keep it off of PS. As long as PS4 has the bigger market share it will always have the advantage because Sony can pay less for the deals. Say if Sony want to make Watchdogs 2 exclusives. Ubisoft project it will sell 2M on PS4 and 1M on X1 and they want $10 for every lost sale if it went exclusive. Sony would have to compensate them $10M while MS would have to pay $20M. So Sony have a better chance of making the deal work and bring in extra money (shift more consoles,PS+ etc). 2 - This is totally irrelevant. Its about what the publisher project their game will sell on consoles. Of course bigger install base equals more softaware sales but it doesn't go up drastically over time. A game rarely sells over 5M on a single platform. 3 - Colours showing a little here. I'm not even sure what's your point here. Games going to PC? NMS going to PC? What is your point? |
Exactly. Microsoft hid behind third party because they were winning and got so many deals. The victor tends to get the spoils and third party are running back to Sony now just like in the PS2 era. While they did that they built up no defenses and had a pretty big exclusives drought towards the end of the gen, proving that trying to emulate Sony's ten year plan is not exactly healthy for them unless they can stretch out their development cycle across a decade. This means they need more internally made first party franchises. People choose to be blind. Its good to read a refreshing comment when someone thinks.
