well, I think this is the last time we will see the XB1 get timed 3rd party exclusive anything, unless they literally fund the whole thing (like Titanfall) and in that case it would not be timed, just plain old exclusive.
So far this gen almost every dev that has bet on XB1 has lost (TRR is the worst of all). I am sure there has been a couple positive cases (I guess Titanfall would be one because it would not have existed without going with MS)
Dragon Age: Inquistion- EA gave marketing rights and times exclusive DLC to XB1. To date has sold 1.68 mil on PS4 and .75 on XB1. Surely EA would have gotten more return had they focused it the userbase that wanted to play it.
Witcher 3- Sold 2.67 on PS4, .86 on XB1. But XB1 had marketing rights.
Sunset OD- Isomaniac went with XB1. has sold .89 mil to date, and that was with bundling.
AC Unity- Oh boy. Impossible to judge sales at all seeing as it was probably the probably most bundled game in Xbox history (save Kinect Adventures). But the whole way AC Unity was handled from the marketing/bundles on the console that has never played it as much (even when the X360 was killing PS3 AC still sold better on PS3), botched launch, bugs, etc. It seems to have sent that series on a rapid decline. Which is funny because Black Flag was a major comeback for the series after kinda declining each year after AC2.
I know someone is ready to respond with "But the PS4 has a larger userbase thus the sales differences". no kidding. The 2 main things a Publisher should look at when giving exclusive marketing rights 1. User base 2. Audience. After that they can look and see how much they are willing to pay. If the Publishers analysis says going with X platform will reduce total sales by 200k, then if they are willing to cover that well why not. Guaranteed money I guess.
For example I saw some people are noting that BO3 is selling slightly better on XB1 in US, even with the PS4 having marketing. Ok. But which console is it selling more on. Look at WW totals. Which is all that really matters.
Activision seems to have figured this out. EA might be coming around (Madden on XBox makes sense as that game is almost completely US centric), but any company that goes with XBox as lead on anything at this point either was paid a shit ton of money by MS or they are stupid (which I believe Square falls into on TRR).
Please note I am only talking about marketing rights and some timed/exclusive content. Software sells well enough on the XB1 to warrant a port in just about every case (JRPGs being the only obvious exception).
psn- tokila
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