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konnichiwa on 20 October 2017
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CGI-Quality said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Exclusives aren't as important as they use to be because (outside of Nintendo) the highest selling games are third party titles.

Gran Turismo, The Last Of Us, and Uncharted definitely don't agree. In fact, this is why Nintendo and Sony platforms are valued so much around the world. People know they can turn to them for specific experiences.

 

torok said:

I would say that they are important even for Nintendo. Since they lost the 3rd party support that fuelled the NES and SNES, they had a lot of rough generations. Their road has been more bumpy than for Sony and MS. When Sony and MS screw up they still sell some respectable numbers, while it seems like Nintendo's screw ups cost them much more. Thirdy parties are really the blood of the industry.

I think exclusives matter to just influence you a bit. A X1 and a PS4 are quite similar consoles and the price is almost the same. In that situation, you will probably think "well, there are more games on PS4 that I can't play on the X1". Of course, a X1 priced lower would get a boost, but anyway it means that in a situation where price is simlar Sony would win by having exclusives.

I believe he's saying that exclusives only matter if you're Nintendo (based on sales numbers).

It is a touchy subject but it is hard to deny it, Switch total software sales are dominated by it's first party titles something you can't say about PS4 or Xbox one.  I think it is pretty rare that someone got a Switch but not a first party title with it while it is more common for people who buy a PS4 and certainly for Xbox one. PS4 and Xbox one sell because of third party and for the last one especially. The xbox one may sell 50-80 million games this year but less than 10% of those sales will be for first party games and I even believe that xbox one will sell more hardware this year than all of their first party game sales this year (someone may do the math) only if you include minecraft I will be totally wrong.