Amazon U.S. March bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[Nuvendil]

xl-klaudkil said:

Nuvendil said:

Yeah i don't think the PS4 will be hurt by the Switch.  People talking about this and that potential trouble for Playstation and Switch are imo missing the actual brand in trouble: Xbox.  Sony has Nioh, Horizon, Nier, and Persona 5.  Nintendo has Dragon Quest VIII and Fire Emblem Echoes for 3DS and Zelda, Bomberman, Arms, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Splatoon not long after those plus other smaller support titles.  Microsoft has...Halo Wars 2 (shared with PC) and the cancelation of Scalebound for pretty much the first *half* of the year.  I know everyone will say, "But Scorpio!"  Yeah that won't help unless the Xbox brand has muscle behind it in the form of games.  Playstation got away with the Pro's initial usefulness being somewhat underwhelming because 1) PSVR and 2) the Playstation brand is red hot.  The Xbox brand is not red hot and Microsoft's current behavior is making it worse. 

Switch  wont  hurt sony, it doesn't  have  enough  games.

Also you forgot. 

Yakuza 0

Gravity rush 2

Gran  turismo 

God of war

Detroit 

Dreams

Deaths stranding 

Crash  bandicoot 

Ys8

Fate extella

Tokyo xanuda explus

Days gone

Wipeout  omega. 

....and many,many,many many more

I was speaking of early launches, not the whole year.  The italics do not fall into that category.  If I was talking all year and further combined, the Switch has a pretty dang solid exclusive lineup for a platform's first year and even has some big deals beyond that.

I was also highlighting MAJOR releases, the bolded do not  count for that.  Not talking quality, talking impact.  If I was going to list every single solitary exclusive or console exclusive, I would have done so and listed all the little things like Snipperclips, 1,2, Switch, FAST RMX, Blaster Master Zero, SteamWorld Dig 2, Runner 3, etc etc etc.  But I wasn't.  So I didn't. 

I don't think it's the lack of exclusives on Switch that makes it not a threat to PS4, it's the sheer strenght of the Playstation brand, their dominance in 3rd party sales, and the exclusives lineup they have.  The lack of those things is why I say Xbox is in real trouble this year if they don't do something.  And their small E3 presence sure isn't instilling confidence.