| pokoko said: "Wall of text"? Seriously? Okay, I'll keep it simple for you, then. Your question has zero meaning because such a situation is not happening. No one is abandoning big first-party exclusives. What is happening is that console manufacturers are using smaller digital games to complement bigger retail titles, since they cost far less and can fill the cracks in the release schedule nicely. In fact, it doesn't make sense to not invest in a promising new digital-only game, since the cost is so modest. |
still not answering the question eh?
regardless that the possibility of my scenario happening is zero, the question still is, will you choose an indibox console with a couple of hundred puny exclusive indie games or an xbox one with just one game and that game is halo 5?
with the excemption of mincraft, which other indie games has sold butt loads and made muchos dineros?
your avoidance of answering the question must mean that you yourself will never buy a console just for indie games.
none, nada, zilch, zip, none.
the point is, indies will never EVER EVER be a true selling point for a home console. No one, and i mean NO ONE will buy a $400 machine just to play a bunch of small fry pixilated games.
removing all of the indie games in the xbone and the ps4 and the wii u's library, all three will still sell the same. but take away the major Full games and just leave the indies, none of them will sell and they would have all flopped.
again, in the grand scheme of things, indies will never ever matter in console sales.
much like how all those shovelware for the ps1, ps2 and wii never meant anything to console sales. face it, indies are the new shovelware. lots and lots of games, only a hand full of worth while ones and the rest are just a bunch of crap.
