Nintendo VS Sony Fiscal Years: Global Edition

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Endymion said:

I've never said that Sony/Microsoft are incapable to deliver popular first-party games (that was untrue even on the first PlayStation when Sony was just at the beginning) nor that third-party games can't sell very well on Nintendo consoles.

Now think for a moment about a hypothetical PlayStation console that for some reasons won't receive strong third-party support.

No Call of Duty, no GTA, no Fifa and so on.

Sony first-party offerings' sales would be negatively impacted by those absence because those huge third-party hits aren't just" the big bulk that brings the most money" they are system sellers.

This.

Most buy a Sony/Microsoft console exactly for those games, and the first party exclusives are the cherry on top.

Most buy a Nintendo system for the first party exclusives, and multiplats are the cherry on top here.

Exclusives do have an effect on a Sony or Microsoft console, but it's slightly different to a Nintendo console: Good exclusives decide whether or not to buy a Nintendo console, but not with Sony or Microsoft.

Here, it's more of a decider of which out of the two the players will buy in the end and when, not if they would buy one. (these cases describe games who only will buy one system and don't care at all about the others once the choice is made)