And who was it that said exclusives were not important?

[Alkibiádēs]

CGI-Quality said:

Alkibiádēs said:

No one said it didn't matter, it's just not as important as most of you here seem to think it is... Otherwise sales of these exclusives (Persona 5, Nioh, Nier, etc.) would be A LOT higher. Persona 5 barely scraped past a million. 

"Those PS exclusives didn't sell a lot compared to the big multiplat games however..."

That spoke for itself. This has always been the case outside of a select few Nintendo games. With PSN and XBL basically canceling each other out, and price not being a factor at all, something else has to drive momentum. Exclusives are a key tipping point.

PS4 launched for $400 and was stronger than the Xbox One, which launched for $500. That's the key tipping point. 

That's what drove momentum... Xbox also has practically no presence in Japan and thus misses out on a lot of the more niche Japanese games (which also have a fanbase in the West). 

Also Playstation is simply a stronger brand. Even when Sony fucked up colossally with the PS3 they still managed to outsell the Xbox 360.