This is complete utter bullshit.
Nintendo is an example of a developer who gives their franchises modest budgets in comparison to the competition, and delivers a quality experience while raking in the *most* sales for single player franchises in history. This isn't exclusive to Nintendo either. See: Persona 5, Nier Automata.
For those people bringing up Sony games, I want to bring up one point. While it is true that Playstation's first party titles have a history of selling less than Microsoft's or Nintendo's, this has been changing quite a bit this generation in favor of Playstation. Horizon Zero Dawn for instance, is on track to sell as much as Uncharted 2 by the end of the year. Uncharted 4 broke records, and there's a very real chance that with digital Lost Legacy will even beat out the first Uncharted game, which makes a lot of profit do to the reuse of engines and assets and less content. Beyond that, exclusive content is meant to sell hardware. Pretending like single player games can't bring in a revenue stream because they don't sell 10 million copies is missing the entire point. Exclusives are meant to *sell* consoles, the consoles are the extra revenue stream.
I remember one time a few years ago I said "Man, I want Sony to have a new multiplayer IP!" on a Playstation channel. And the content creator replied to me, saying Destiny and third party titles already have multiplayer covered. While I denied it back then, I have come to realize that to be the truth of the matter. Yeah, Microsoft might make more money on Halo 5 than Horizon, but which manufacturer is getting the hardware sales? The hardware sales that lead to games being bought? Those games being first party titles, or third party titles that get a massive cut given to Sony?
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