Gemmol31 said:
ratolmc said:
Well obviously Sony's 1st party software sales pales in comparison to Nintendo so no need to add them genius. However I do want to add that Sony this generation with the playstation 4 have been reaching Nintendo's first party sales (or close to) with titles such as GoW, Spiderman, UC4, LoU, and Horizon. Obviously these IPs wont reach Mario and Pokemon sales status and may never will but guess what? They dont need to. Nintendo needs to live off their first party titles due to their lack of 3rd party titles while Sony has a strong mixture of BOTH 1st and 3rd party titles. You take away Nintendo's 1st party title, they'd be left with nothing! You take away Sony's 1st party titles, sony's console will still have Call of Duty, GTA, Elder Scrolls, Fifa, 2K, Fallout, etc. And these titles sells in the 20million+ which Nintendo misses out on which is why nintendo gamers are left with no choice but to purchase mario, zelda, pokemon etc. However I do understand the switch has been gaining 3rd party support recently though not at the level of Sony and Micro but that will definetely change as next gen arrives next year with Cyberpunk, GTA6, Elder Scrolls 6 releasing next gen. Im sure if we were to tally up overall software sales Sony would come out top. Its important to remember games like CoD, Fifa, 2k which releases every year about 20 million each and GTA V which has sold more than 100 million, Sony gets a piece of that money due to platform royalties. Nintendo will never get a piece of that money because they dont have Cod and GTA although they do have Fifa and 2k but they dont sell well on Nintendo platforms. So anyway my point is Nintendo's 1st party sells well because they typically have no competition with 3rd party because well theres barely any 3rd party titles on Nintendo consoles lol.
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I will tell you one thing once you bring up Sony first party you already lost the debate.
First of Sony cannot compete with Nintendo first party because once a game stop selling well for Sony that will be the end of that game, it’s not something magical about they always want to make new IP, it just simply not selling well. Over Sony years there are many examples of games you can use for an example for current game we can use little big planet that came out for ps4 or which ever you like.
people may want to bring up 3rd party games as a saving grace but it makes your case worse because if all those 3rd party developers got together to make their own system or online streaming store it would be a wrap for Sony they do not have first party content to keep up with Nintendo and nowhere close to half the money to keep up with Microsoft.
NPD charts, Mediacreate charts, all charts basically show the majority of games people play on their Sony or Microsoft system is 3rd party games so no first party is not a big deal for majority of the customers it’s only for a small vocal online community the same online community that came after Pokémon and realize how small they are compared to the bigger fan base who do not see the huge problems they see
check the charts in a top 10 best seller for Sony systems or look at the last 12 months from NPD or go further back and you will see Sony only takes 1 or 2 spots in the top 10 best sellers for its system with everything else filled up with 3rd party
then you have word of mouth from Sony ceo a year or two back who says only 3 or 4 out of 10 Sony games make money but they still take chances on new games
numbers support Nintendo being okay in a future being on their own
and cut it out with saying Sony recent numbers show they keeping up with Nintendo look at horizon it drop price after 3 weeks from launch then Sony bundle it a lot to increase its sales which Sony do more bundles than Nintendo it help inflate the game sales
look at Spider-Man last year those sales inflate the number for Black Friday selling the game with the system which the system sold very well on Black Friday
how many bundles do you see Zelda or smash bros in? Look at last of us Sony best selling ps4 game it was basically given out for free Groupon at a time sold it for 5 to 10 dollars
and last part if Nintendo system sell well only people that can compete with it are 3rd party Mario kart Wii before it got bundle sold 30 million it took grand theft on two systems Xbox and Sony which both sold over 150 million together to sell 30 million on PS3 and Xbox 360
switch will reach 3 years old In March and it already have more 10 million sellers than Sony
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