Xbox Exec Responds To Claims That Microsoft Has Too Few Exclusives In 2017

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CGI-Quality said:

konnichiwa said:

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.

It's not as touchy as it is exaggerated. One of the big reasons the PS3 became a must-have option for people was because of its exclusive library, for example. This spilled over into much of the excitement for the PS4. Of course Nintendo platforms sell more in-house software. That wasn't up for debate. Claiming exclusives are "losing importance", however, is.

Considering the amount of SW sold, 20% being 1st party is quite a lot... 20% of PS2 SW would mean 300M SW, on PS360 about 160M, healthy sales.