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Azzanation on 12 March 2024
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IcaroRibeiro said:

2) and 3) don't make sense

Playstation got exclusives, but Playstation and Xbox hardware are basically the same. Nintendo don't have exclusives and sometimes release whack hardware (Wii U)

Playstation is also the one who invested more in their own first party, even when it had exclusives. Nintendo invest strongly in their own IPs even when they indeed had almost all exclusives (NES, SNES)


Releasing good hardware and investing on their own IPs don't seem to correlate with having (a lack of) third party exclusives

Let me explain 2 and 3.

2) Console Manufacturers will have to invest more into their hardware, focusing on creating exclusive features that the opposition doesn't have, to help sell over rival hardware, instead of just money hatting IPs to get people to buy their consoles. Gen 9, both companies have played it very safe, the X/S is a more powerful version of the XB1 arguably with less features, and the PS5 is just a more powerful PS4. No risks were taken to innovate over the other. PS5 and X/S are practically the same machine with a different badges. Why innovate when they can just pay for 3rd party exclusives to get you buying the machine anyway. 

3) Exact same thing as 2, only with 1st party content. Push these companies to invest even more into their IPs, New and Old, instead of playing it safe and rely on moneyhatting IPs to carry the load and hampering your competition. Majority of gamers buy a PS5 and X/S for 3rd party content and the 1st party content is a secondary for the majority. Do what Nintendo do and make the majority buy the consoles off 1st party bangers. Just look at the top 10 lists of both Xbox and Playstation, it's all 3rd party, then look at Nintendos. 

We want even better games and even better consoles. We want these companies to compete by building rival games and better hardware rather than building similar machines and instead of making IP counter parts, they just money hat, instead of pushing eachother to make the best FPS, Fighters etc. Only rivalry we have is GT vs Forza. 

These companies are not pushing boundaries, we want them to. 

Last edited by Azzanation - on 12 March 2024