Famitsu Sales: Week 9, 2021 (Feb 22 - Feb 28)

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Ka-pi96 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

It's one of the big reasons.

In Generation 7, the XBox360 did well because:
-It had better first party support than XB1
-It had almost the same 3rd party games as PS3 (both Japanese and Western)
-It was often priced better than PS3


-In Generation 8, the XB1 did not do nearly as well because:
-It had inferior first party support than XBox360
-The PS4 had more 3rd party exclusives (especially from Japan)
-It was priced worse than PS4 at launch, and about the same shortly after that

The main things that matter are software and price.  The PS4 had quite a few games that the XB1 didn't.  The two systems are so similar in a lot of other ways, that the games that are exclusives end up being an obvious advantage.  A lot of those exclusives were Japanese 3rd party games.

It's really not. Probably wouldn't even make the top 100.

How many Japanese games on PS/Xbox sell over 3m? Excluding Final Fantasy (which Xbox One still had) you could probably count them on one hand. Yet you think they were a big reason for a 60m+ sales swing?

Do you know which games are not responsible for a 60m+ sales swing?  GTA5, COD, Minecraft, etc....  You can play these games on either PS4 or XB1.  These multiplatform titles make both platforms more attractive.  They do not differentiate one platform from another.  Instead you get some people who say, "I want to play both COD and Persona 5" or "I want to play GTA5 and Yakuza 6".  GTA and COD give people a reason to buy a game system, but exclusives often make them choose which system they are going to buy. 

If you can play COD on either system, then why not buy a system with more exclusives?  When the PS4 has all the XB1 games you want to play, plus some more, then that makes it a better system to buy.  A good amount of those exclusives are Japanese third party games.