PS5 could see even more 3rd party exclusives than PS4

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Darwinianevolution said:

This new generation is going to see an escalation of the exclusivity side of the console wars. Between big companies buying out the smaller ones, and publishers really needing to keep reasons to go to their exclusive platforms within platforms, platform holders are going to try to keep as many games as possible for themselves.

I actually don't think so. Exclusivity is dying out.

There's no game on Xbox Series X/S out or in development that won't at least be on Windows as well. And most of them will still be on Xbox One for the time being.

Sony also has some first-party games as cross-gen releases all the way up to a year from now when Horizon: Forbidden West releases. And considering you can play Horizon: Zero Dawn and a few other 1st-party Sony games on Windows, more will be coming. Sony admitted as much. I don't think we'll see God of War or Uncharted on PC anytime remotely soon. But I would not outrule Ghost of Tsushima or maybe even Marvel's Spider-Man.

Even Nintendo has very few third-party exclusives now compared to in the past. There's a few dozen third-party Switch games you can't get anywhere else. That will probably hit 100 or a a little over when all is said and done. Wii, on the other hand, had well over 200 third-party exclusives. And Wii has less games than the Switch has and will have.

I'll be pretty surprised if PS5 has more third-party exclusives than the PS4, the way things are looking. Console exclusive? Very possible. But only on PS5 and not PS4 or PC? Unlikely.