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

[Ganoncrotch]

Azuren said:

RossTheBoss said:

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:

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. 

Yup the full list would be

1 Star Wars battlefront

2 Fallout 4

3 Assassins Creed Unity

4 Batman Arkham Knight

5 The Witcher 3

6 Tom Clancys the division

7 Uncharted 4

8 Assassins Creed Synicate

9 Infamous Second Son

10 MKX

11 Killzone Shadowfall

12 Need for Speed (2015)

13 BloodBorne

14 Tom Clancy Rainbow 6 siege

15 Driveclub

16 Far Cry Primal

17 The Order

18 The Elder Scrolls Online

19 Knack

20 Dying Light

As the modified top 20 to remove previous gen games