The 8th Gen 1st party reception and sales battle

[DonFerrari]

With the gen coming to an end this year and most noteworthy titles for at least Sony and Microsoft already being released or close to let's compare the reception and sales of the three platforms.

Reception will be from metacritic and GOTY from gotypicks.blogspot.com. Sales will be taken from VGC (so possibly twice as much was sold with digital).

Here for easyness of comparison I'll be calling 1st party all the true exclusives either made in house or contracted (so Until Dawn, Sunset Overdrive and Mario Rabbids count).

Sony

Astrobot Rescue Mission 90, 3 GOTY, 0.71M

Bloodborne 92, 31 GOTY, 3.11M

Days Gone 71, 2 GOTY,

Death Stranding 82, 80 GOTY

Detroit Become Human 78, 1.57M

Dreams 89, TBD GOTY Awards,

Driveclub 71, No GOTY, 2M Sales wiki, 2.37M

Ghost of Tsushima (TBD)

God of War 94, 198 GOTY, 6.15M

Gran Turismo Sport 75, 3.77M

Horizon Zero Dawn 89, 52 GOTY, 5.82M

Infamous Second Son 80, 3.01M

Killzone Shadow Fall 73, 3M

Knack 1 54, 1.88M

Knack 2 69, 0.47M

The Last Guardian 82, 15 GOTY, 1.29M

The Last of Us Part II 96,

Nioh 88, 1.07M

Nioh 2 85,

Ni no kuni 2 84, 0.89M

Persona 5 93, 10 GOTY, 1.64M

The Order 1886 63, 1.62M

Ratchet and Clank 85, 2.38M

Spider-Man 87, 16 GOTY, 8.76M

Uncharted 4 93, 165 GOTY, 10.33M

Until Dawn 79, 1 GOTY, 1.9M

Nintendo

Animal Crossing New Horizon 91,

Arms 77, 2M

Cadence of Hyrule 85,

Fast RMX 81,

Fire Emblem Warriors 74, 0.51M

Fire Emblem Three Houses 89, 

Luigis Mansion 3 86, 1 GOTY,

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle 85, 2.59M

Mario Tennis Aces 75, 1.87M

Metroid Prime 4 TBD

Pokemon Sword and Shield 80, 1 GOTY,

Pokemon Let's Go 80, 5M

Snipperclips 80, 0.12M

Splatoon 2 83, 7.04M

Super Mario Maker 2 88, 2 GOTY 

Super Mario Odyssey 97, 26 GOTY, 11.71M

Super Mario Party 76, 4.97M

Super Smash Bros Ultimate 93, 4 GOTY, 8.95M

Xenoblade 2 83, 1.4M

Microsoft

Crackdown 3 60,

Dance Central Spotlight 74,

Dead Rising 3 78, 1.63M

Everwild TBD

Forza Horizon 3 91, 1 GOTY, 3.93M

Forza Motorsport 6 87, 2.02M

Forza Motorsport 7 86, 1.52M

Gears 5 84, 2 GOTY,

Gears Tactics 81,

Gears 4 84, 3.38M

Halo 5 85, 4.92M

Halo Wars 2 79, 0.51M

Killer Instinct 73, 0.11M

ReCore 63, 0.26M

Ryse Son of Rome 60, 1.47M

Sea of Thieves 69, 0.69M

State of Decay 2 66, 0.36M

Sunset Overdrive 81, 5 GOTY, 1.16M

 

Summary:

	Sony	Microsoft	Nintendo
Sales Total	62M	22M	47M
Metacritic 90+	6	1	3
Metacritic 80-89	9	7	11
Metacritic 71-79	6	5	4
Metacritic Under 70	3	5	0
GOTY Awards Total	573	8	34

Last edited by DonFerrari - on 15 June 2020