hiccupthehuman said:
That 65:35 is from here PS5 and Resident Evil Village dominate May | UK Monthly Charts | GamesIndustry.biz "Pretty much makes it impossible for MS to get big third party exclusives and very easy for Sony to." I disagree. MS just got the entirety of Bethesda. They got other formerly third-party franchises (Hellblade, Outer Worlds, Starfield which was at one point multiplat) exclusive. These statements are mutually contradictory: 1) MS can't get an IP from a third-party to be timed exclusive 2) MS can get a third-party IP to be permanently exclusive, and get the dev/publisher along with it. |
Acquisition is not what I include in third party. Once someone is acquired they are 1st party. MS cannot buy every single publisher. Third party exclusives (different from publishing titles) are big.
You'll notice Playstation has multiple with multiple pubs. I can't think of a single one for Xbox. While you are right that MS can buy studios to counter act this, this is a losing battle as the biggest pubs with the biggest IPs will not be bought out, so your competition can easily secure deals with them at your expense.
hiccupthehuman said:
We do have revenue numbers for Xbox, and Xbox is healthier than ever.
“We exceeded $2 billion in revenue from third-party titles this quarter for the first time [in Xbox history]", Satya Nadella 3rd-party sales are very healthy on Xbox; they are not decreasing on Xbox, despite what the shrinking physical game market may seem to indicate. Every year, GameStop and Game closes hundreds of stores, and the ones that remain shift to gaming apparel... physical game sales do not tell the whole story... So yeah, Xbox is doing better than ever, 3rd-party revenue is better than ever. I don't know why some people seem so concerned for Xbox, as if Xbox didn't just acquire Bethesda last year. MS just got control of Elder Srolls, Fallout, Starfield, Doom, Redfall, etc, why are we concerned about MS getting exclusives lol? MS's got more exclusives than ever before. |
Revenue up a lot due to Bethesda acquisition. Also third party sales can be down by while revenue is up due to how pervasive MTX are nowadays.
The sales data explicitly show how Xbox has gone from 50:50, even 60:40 in their advantage during the 360 days, to 70:30 or 80:20 against them. That's a 30-40% swing. A massive decline.
BTW gameindustry includes digital data so no its not just physical.
In comparison, MS estimates PS's third party revenue to be $8.6B. Almost 4.5 times bigger.