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Neodegenerate on 22 October 2018
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ResilientFighter said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Let's see if your theory makes sense : 

According to VGC (very outdated numbers) PS4 accounts for about 81% of sales so that means out of the 3 million copies sold 2.43m are on PS4 and 570k were sold on Xbox One or PC.

Your theory states that somehow more than 570k people are petty enough to not buy a title they want, because it's not available exclusively on their favorite platform (PS4).  Again, not because it's not on PS4 but because the title is available somewhere else too. I have no doubt such irrational people do exist but not in a such a large number so I'm pretty sure the move to go multiplat has been a positive one.

Yeah thats your opinion. Exclusive games sell consoles just check nintendo and PlayStation vs xbox in the monthly chart. If sony had no exclusive games the xbox one x would probably be outselling the ps4 at the moment.

You realize that exclusive games selling consoles does not mean that people who own consoles only buy games because they are exclusive... right?

Let me give you an example:  Spider-Man might sell PS4s, but someone who isn't interested in Spider-Man isn't buying it strictly because its exclusive to PS4.  People buy consoles to play games they can't play elsewhere.  Then when people have multiple consoles they buy the games based on any and/or all of the following reasons (generally): 1. their friends are playing it on Console A.  2. It runs better on Console B.  or 3. They simply like playing on Console C the best so they buy most of their games there.

The number of people boycotting a game they like because the developer had the "audacity" to try to introduce it to a new audience of single-console players is much, much smaller than you seem to think it is.  If it weren't, no one would ever branch away from being exclusive.