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Bonzinga on 11 June 2020
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goopy20 said:
Bonzinga said:

It is a small drop in the ocean if we are including the entire gaming industry which I am, hence why I said gaming industry and not just the console industry. I am including everything like the Mobile, Portable and PC markets which eat up a lot of the gaming market and considering consoles are becoming a lot more like PCs like sharing the same architectures etc, it means developers have a lot more options than just one high selling console brand. PS5 could go out and sell another 100m consoles life time, however we know the industry is a lot bigger than 100m consoles, we also know the console market is at least 3 times that size since Gen 7 sold roughly 270m consoles. Now include the PC eco-system and than the mobile industry to that 270m number and you see my point, 100m is a small amount in a industry that big. Potential sales is just too big to miss out on overall however I wont doubt Sony and MS will money hat developers to force gamers to their platforms, Stadia has already started doing it with 15 timed exclusives on there way to Googles platform.

I dunno man. Sounds kinda hard for a developer to support everything. Either they are making mobile/ indie games or they are making AAA type games that typically sell big numbers on consoles. It would make little sense for an Indie developer to go exclusive on ps5, but for the studios that make games that historically sell 3:1 on a Sony console, they absolutely might. 

It's not that far fetched to see a bunch of exclusives from Capcom, Square Enix, From Software, Team Ninja, Kojima etc. At least not if it's really that much easier to develop for the ps5 like we've been hearing.

Its not weather or not a dev wants to support the entire industry or just the consoles, its the point of grasping as much as you can as the bigger the audience equals the more chance of sales. Example: Why should a dev choose to develop a game on 50m consoles compared to selling there game on 150m consoles? If the platform holders want to spend their money to keep it off other systems, than it becomes anti-consumer and a loss of sales as 1 system does not make up the pedigree of the gaming industry. Do we want our favourite games being locked up? because it easily goes both ways in this business. What Sony locks up will push Xbox to lock up games and than we get a snow ball affect where all platform makers are buying the 3rd party games and your libraries will be all over the place.

Anyway will wait and see, I have no doubt Sony will want to buy as many 3rd party games as possible to showcase their new SSD technology. I am also sure this will lead to competitors counter reacting and doing the same. Time will tell.