| Runa216 said: I agree with this wholeheartedly. They need more first party exclusives. I use the analogy of a steakhouse to compare Sony and Microsoft when it comes to the differences between offerings. Exclusives are the steak, everything else are the sides. Microsoft has outstanding salad, a great wine pairing, and a huge and well cooked stack of fries in the form of gamepass and third party strength due to the power....but Sony still has pretty damn good sides as well but they actually have a fantastic, thick, juicy, meaty steak at the center of it as a form of first party exclusives. Microsoft, however, has some week-old cut that's a little over cooked and not that big. It's actually kind of a bad steak, one you could get at home (On PC) While Microsoft may very well have the best sides, people dont go to their restaurant for their fries. and Sony's fries are almost as good but accentuate an outstanding piece of meat. The worldwide sales, brand recognition, and reviews for the games show that...yeah, clearly exclusives matter. They just do. this is a non-negotiable fact. They are a significant factor when it comes to choosing your console. If Gamepass and raw power and backwards compatibility mattered as much as Microsoft treats them...Xbox would be competing. But it's not. Because it lacks exclusives. That's just a fact. That's not even an opinion at this point. Hell, I probably dislike more games on PS than I do on Xbox...but that still leaves so many games I do love. I don't even like Old God of War games or Uncharted or The Last of Us or Killzone or Gran Turismo or MLB The Show or a dozen others...but I do love Bloodborne and Horizon and new God of War and Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank and Ghost of Tsushima, etc. I had someone try to argue with me both here and on Youtube that all of Sony's exclusives are the same because they're all third-person action-adventure games and...like, how does one even respond to something so blatantly stupid and wrong? Like, Uncharted is NOTHING like Bloodborne. Ghost of Tsushima is NOTHING like MLB The Show. The Last of Us is nothing like Gran Turismo. Being in third person mode does not mean they're the same. Such a stupid, nonsensical argument. |
Couldn't agree more.
People like to make it sound like exclusives don't matter, but they do. Platforms literally live and die on them. They are the primary reason most people buy one console over another especially when both consoles share a similar library base.
I mean take Netflix for instance, if everything out there is also on Amazon prime, Hulu, Apple, Disney Plus, HBO...etc, then what reason is there to get one over the other? And that is why all those companies are making exclusive original content. Like this is so obvious I find it stupid and mind-boggling MS (after three generations) hasn't figured it out.
It's why years ago when MS started with Gamepas being on Xbox and PC and having day 1 exclusives, I sai that MSis actually killing the Xbox brand as we know it and becoming something else. Because that model just won't work because you are basically giving people not only a reason, but an option to not own your console. So what happens if the majority of gamers buy a PS/ Nintendo platform, and MSgets only like 15% of that market share? Publishers shun the box, start releasing their stuff for PS/Nintendo/PC, and that has been happening a lot this gen alone.
I applaud MS for what they are doing with gamepass (even ifts an initiative ran outta desperation), and God knows I would love it if Sony did something similar with the PS, but I believe MSis going about it all wrong. I believe they shouldn't have games there on day one, make it at least 12 - 18 months, that doesn't only prompt people to actually buy the games, but makes it easier for third parties to put their games on the platform. And secondly... get more bloody exclusives.
And now with xcloud I don't even have to own an Xbox or PC? So what stops me from installing the app on my 65" 4K Android TV, paying for a one-month subscription, and playing everything Xbox has to offer exclusively for that year? Fine I am streaming... but come on, its just what? $10? Lots of sides indeed.
