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:

mjk45 said:

I have a question for you guys concerning the third party/exclusives situation in regards to whether or not you see any substantial change happening,I'm not talking so much about changes to the ratio of third party to First party in the top ten or twenty best sellers, more along the lines of those top selling first party games starting to sell at a rate more inline with similar ranked third party games. I did a quick look at the top 15 or so PS3 titles and only GT5 had reached 10m+ and the rest had much lower numbers in comparison to the  third party games around their mark.

Looking at PS4 paints a different picture yes that picture is murky due to VGC changes, but if you take into account the developer numbers the first party growth has been phenomenal with numbers being over double and even triple in some cases and they are now more in tune with and in some cases exceeding what you expect from their similar ranked third party counterparts,now this was not a comprehensive delve into those sales but on the surface there seems to be changes afoot in PS4's case anyway. and Rol can knock sense into me when needed it seems there first party is becoming Nintendo lite.

First party game sales on the PS4 have seen a huge improvement over the PS3, but it shouldn't be expected that the PS5 will see growth at the same or a similar rate. Reasons being that Sony's game output won't increase by a signficant degree (there won't be more than two big games per year on average) and that Sony may try to profit more from it (on the PS4 they cut their software prices fast despite good sales). Multiplats will remain more important because the yearly rhythm of Call of Duty and FIFA alone already matches Sony's two big games per year on average, and there are a lot more big multiplats than just those two of them.

Microsoft is going to see more sales growth than Sony in the first party game department, but that's moot when Microsoft is working from a much, much lower base, so outdoing their Xbox One efforts by a big margin while still being notably behind Sony's PS5 output aren't statements that contradict each other. First party sales performance is a lot like the overall thread question; it's not about whether or not Microsoft can beat Sony, but whether or not Microsoft can make things closer than in the PS4 vs. XB1 generation.

Good analyse Rol ,so it's like looking at a weekly sales  chart where  Switch or PS4 increase sales say 50k each and xbox increases 5k but xbox gets the bigger % increase.