So Nintendo should go 3rd Party, right? What about everyone else?

[Azuren]

RossTheBoss said:

Azuren said:
                                         

Being a remaster doesn't disqualify a game from being in the top 20, and if it did then you should remove them to show the top 20, not the top 18.

A statement was made that PS4 has "great exclusives".  My point remains that the majority of the people flocking to buy PS4's are primarily buying games that can be played on other platforms (or remasters of previous gen games).  A console with great exclusives should have at least one exclusive (not remasters) in it's Top 20 games sold close to 3 years into its lifespan.  Shuhei Yoshida said himself that he doesn't know why the PS4 is selling so well.  It just happens to be the hot console in the public perception.  It's just ironic that the games being bought the most by the people buying the console can be played elsewhere.

Exclusives typically aren't big sellers. The purpose is to get people to buy a certain console to sway sales of big multiconsole games to be mostly on the desired platform. Based on present numbers, we can conclude that roughly 10% of the total PS4 sales are due to exclusives (3.3M from Uncharted 4 with a 0.7 bump to accommodate for variance in titles). That's not an easily dismissed number. 

 

Ganoncrotch said:

Azuren said:

Good point. Maybe we should go ahead and make a new list not counting all of these re-releases... I'm sure a couple of exclusives would worm their way in, then. 

 

ADDED: Uncharted 4 immediately pops up from removal of the two remasters; Second Son and Bloodborne pop up from the removal of games available on previous generations. The number may increase when taking note of the re-releases added into those numbers. 

Listed them all above, gets a number of exclusives in that top 20 when you stop filling spaces with games that "don't count" because reasons lol.

Nice. 35% of next-gen games in the top 20 were PS4 exclusives.