LudicrousSpeed said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
No....exclusives amount fo first party income for a company and they help with increasing marketshare based on the consumers value of their internal offerings. The problem is that more people have chosen Sony as the primary platform and thus has resulted in Microsoft getting less sales for their exclusives and thus downplaying the concept of exclusives. Sony gets more because they give more, quite simply. The culture of multiplayer only gaming is hurting the Xbox single player games sales (for variety and overall health) for that reason. Outside of Halo and Gears im not sure any one of those three exclusives Spencer just paid for with most likely arrive next gen or the very end of this gen. If you look at the dismal yearly sales of XBox this year and why Microsoft is not talking about their sales after their Xbox One X Boost in november, that might be all they have in the tank until their only two heavy hitters come once more. One wouuld also assume that most who have an Xbox already bought one for Gears and Halo as well which means Xbox needs more heavy hitting content. You see....God of War at its height sold the most for the hack n slash subgenre of action/adventure games. Those who want God of War or even Spiderman will pick up an Playstation for those games (and it will reflect in their monthly sales).
Exclusives might not be the bottom line for Microsoft because they arent particularly good at making them. Sony and Nintendo however....they hold up tradition in the console realm, which is why when people question where single player exclusives are going....they increased consumer confidence as Microsofts competition.
|
And yet people were already picking PS4 over Xbone in droves long before this narrative of no exclusives started in 2017. We've had this conversation before and I've given you the numbers before, entering 2017 their wasn't a vast difference in exclusives Sony/MS made for their console. Furthermore you look at software sales for these super important exclusives and with a vast majority of them, they just aren't there. Then you look at something like the WiiU, which had more quality exclusives than PS4 and Xbone combined while it was around... it not only lost in console sales but it got trounced.
Has nothing to do with downplaying anything. It's very apparent MS simply doesn't care to cultivate a stable of exclusives the likes of which we see with Nintendo, or to a much lesser extent Sony. This is the console warz mentality creeping in to your post. And no one is saying they make no difference, just that the effect isn't nearly as big as people such as yourself make it seem :)
|
Well, maybe this is part of the reason why "people were already picking PS4 over Xbone in droves."
