Protendo said:
You are absoutetly right. It felt like just the other day I was arguing with Sony fans that PS Vita's cross buy stradegy is not going to save the Vita. This is what a company does when they are giving up on the console. This is a sign of the direction the company is taking on the device and nothing more. That sign is less exclusive support, and possibly the transition of less support in the future... History repeats itself indeed. I'm saying the same thing I said before. This will have a negative impact, and is a sign of things to come. |
To think the Vita could be saved was a silly thing anyway especially how they handled it in the west but cross buy certainly must have helped with sales though. I think if SFV/MGSV was also on Vita it could have helped the sales even if it was cross buy. Vita had many issues and for the West the lack of some great games that are on pc really hurts it sales. A GTA game could have helped but needed more than just a bad COD game. It is crazy to think that a PC game Minecraft is becoming one of the best selling games on the Vita. That should have woken up some Sony representatives.
If it didn't hurt the xbox 360 to have games like Fable/Gears of war/Oblivion/Bioshock/mass Effect as console exclusive I don't see why it would hurt so much for the xone to have Quantum Break or others as console exclusive. Like I said before Sony is like following the xbox 360 strategy. The PS3 bundles were all with games like Motorstorm/Resistance/heavenly Sword/Gundam etc at the beginning all exclusive. Go to a shop now and you see PS4's bundles with COD/SW BF/SFV/FC PRimal/etc.. because those are games people want and no game is exclusive :s. Is it bad? no because those bundles are super succesfull sales wise (well atleast the first two). Sony is investing in games and don't even care that they are also on PC and between now and 5 years Sony will probably invest more money in consoles exclusives than in first party and that is the normal way to go. We probably see a lot of NX threads in a couple of years 'NX is the console to get because so many PS4 exclusives are also on PC'
