How the heck did Sony manage to retake the console market again?

[Chazore]

Cerebralbore said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

If you look at sales for these exclusives, seems people don't really give a crap about most of them. Or the metascore, either.

2014: Infamous
2015: Disgaea 5? Tearaway I guess, though it's a remake of a Vita game. And, Bloodborne.
2016: What counts as "AA"? Does "Score Rush Extended" count? Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted 4.
2017: Gravity Rush 2, Yakuza 0, Horizon, Nioh.

What am I missing that bridges this 11 vs 19 gap? Seems you're including games that are on other platforms or I am just missing some. Do some of these wonky Japanese titles count as "AA"? Wtf is AA, lol. What's the difference between say, a AA game and an indie game? Either way, the PS4 didn't get its real big heavy hitters exclusive wise until we were like.. halfway into 2016, and it had long been blowing the Xbone away in sales by that time. The sales dominance began long before any exclusives worth pointing to were out.

Your PC list seemed awfully low and this just confirms how pointless it is to argue about what counts as a "AA" title. I counted like 10 titles I would consider to be big games just in 2014 for PC, but you have 10 for 2014-2017 combined. There's really no competing with the PC when it comes to quality exclusives.

Anyway as for the question posed in the thread I'd say a combination of Sony being safe and smart plus their competition doing terrible jobs. The Wii U was a horrible console, which I say as someone who owns one, and the Xbox reveal pretty much killed the Xbox brand for this gen.

I came up with the numbers by searching gamerankings for games with at least ten reviews, that scored at 80 or higher. DLC packs, and Sports games are not counted in the totals. If a game was on XB1/PS4 but not on PC then it counted as an exclusive for PS4. The same goes for PC games that were on the XB1, but not PS4 Arkham Knight was counted as an exclusive since it was borderline unplayable on PC.

Here's the list...

PC 2017
Nothing Yet

PC 2016 3 AA or AAA Exclusives. 12 Indies.
Civ VI
Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun
Hearts of Iron
Owlboy
Stardew Valley
Pony Island
Planet Coaster
Devil Daggers
Quadrilateral Cowboy
1979 Revolution Black Friday
Duelyst
Zombie Night Terror
Tyranny
That Dragon Cancer
Offworld Trading Company

2015 3 AAA exclusives. 6 Indies.
Pillars of Eternity
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Heroes of the Storm
Undertale
Westerado Double Barrelled
The Bug Butcher
Zenzizenzic
World of Warships

2014 4 AAA exclusives. 8 Indies.
Titanfall
Galactic Civilizations III
Age of Wonders III
Wildstar
Elite Dangerous
Endless Legend
Legend of Grimrock II
Wasteland 2
Broken Age
Sunless Sea
SuperHot
Hearthstone

PS4 2017 4 AA or AAA Exclusives
Nioh
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Yakuza 0
Gravity Rush 2

PS4 2016 9 AA or AAA Exclusives
Uncharted 4
Odin Sphere
Ratchet and Clank
Guilty Gear REVELATOR
Dragon Quest Builders
The Last Guardian
Gravity Rush Remastered
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X
Rigs: Mechanized Combat League

2015 4 AAA Exclusives
Tearaway Unfolded
Disgaea 5
Arkham Knight
Bloodborne

2014 2 AAA Exclusives
LittleBigPlanet 3
inFamous Second Son

If you can run a game on a mid range gaming PC from 2002, then it is an indie game and not a AA or AAA title.

You have a very strange way of telling us what is and isn't exclusivwe as well as setting down a guidline as to what can outright not be considered a AA or AAA based on your build as well as the game's design.

Also what about cowd funded games, you know the oens that make a ton of money, like Planet Coaster, who's funding was more than met, or Star Citizen which was funded millions upon millions.

 

I find your logic to be very iffy tbh.