Next gen PS5/XB1SX sales ratio will look the same as this gen's. Huge changes in console marketshare require huge changes in the industry.

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RolStoppable said:

Runa216 said:
I was going to write up another reply to Rol and Sales person, but I realized...their revisionist history is at odds with reality and no amount of arguing is going to make them concede the point. I don't expect them to agree with me, but If we're not even adhering to the same flow of time and see history from a completely different perspective than what is real, then there's no way this can be a fruitful discussion.

Rol, your assertion that 'exclusives' are the least important of the factors you listed is just so wrong I don't even know where to start.

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Start with Japan because that's the country we have the most reliable sales data for. The PS4 will have sold roughly 10m more units than the XB1 once it's all said and done; how much of a role did Sony's first party games play in that?

Then you move on to the USA and answer why the XB1 sold close to PS4 numbers despite Microsoft's anemic first party lineup for most of the generation.

I feel like that proves her point a bit more. For the past 18 years, MS showed that XB would never cater to Japan, while they show decent proficiency with American tastes. And when people talk about exclusives, they don't talk about just first party games, they talk about brilliant 2nd and 3rd party exclusives like Bloodborne, Nier Automata, DQXI (for a time), Persona 5, etc. as well.

In the US, XB1 does have decent first party to match their tastes like Gears of War and Halo 5