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Is this truth>?

yes 168 42.21%
 
maybe 58 14.57%
 
no 172 43.22%
 
Total:398
PureDante on 04 April 2013

So...everyones going to hop back to sony next gen?



All of this, of course, is just my opinion.

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forevercloud3000 on 04 April 2013

Uhg, Sorry double Post. Keep getting loading errors with VGC :/



      

      

      

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Leadified on 04 April 2013

Wasn't GTA SA also on the Xbox?



Lostplanet22 on 04 April 2013

Meh, how many Sony exclusives are not their who failed before they even could go multiplatform??



 

theprof00 on 04 April 2013
Leadified said:
Wasn't GTA SA also on the Xbox?

Not announced at the same time. As I've said to others, a game that is announced as exclusive tends to affect sales habits differently. If you believe that a game will be exclusive, then you're more likely to purchase said console for the title, or buy the title on the one system if you have both. When a game is announced multiplat, it's more likely that 2 console owners will buy for the system they use the most, and if it's timed exclusive, they will just wait. What this means is that it will skew sales.

Also, at people (specifically those xbox gamers) who are saying games on PC aren't exclusive, Fine. Guess 360 only has one exclusive franchise confirmed, then.



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tonymarraffa on 04 April 2013
AndrewWK said:
Wait when was Tomb Raider Playstation exclusive I remember playing it on my PC.

And seriously comparing MGR to MGS. That seems all sorts of wrong.

The Crash and Tekken games just decreased quality wise too much.


It never was. The original was also on Saturn.



richardhutnik on 04 April 2013
TheLastStarFighter said:
At the risk of being harsh, most of what you posted there is garbage. A franchise that declines from one itereation to the next is typical, regardless of gonig multiplatform. Also spinoffs and handhelds are silly comparissions.

Rachet and Clank: 3.33 million. Every game after that declines until we get offerings like A41 selling 1 million on PS3. OMG! Staying exlcussive killed the sales of the franchise!

Can you show any third party exclusive that stayed PS exclusive that had sales that actually increased this gen? No? OK, discussion closed.

That said, there is a seperate argument to be made that "masscote" exclusives are better off as exclusives. I am speaking of Crash Bandicoot. Crash is a weak character and a weak game but it had decent sales because Sony did great marketing of it in order to battle Mario. It probably would have sold like garbage if it wasn't pitched as the next Sonic. To a lesser extent you could say FF7 got a nice boost being pitched as Sony's "Zelda", so to speak. But these are 1st party titles really. As far as 3rd party titles go, there is absolutely no evidence to say that staying exclusive is good for them, or that exclusive/multiplat has any impact on sales.

Third-party titles going exclusive will get an extra boost of marketing.  If, for example, people seriously think Gears of War would of done what it did had it gone multiplatformed and didn't get the push that Microsoft offered it, they would SADLY be mistaken.  Gears is good in its own right, but it became a near flagship franchise, because of Epic's partnership with Microsoft.



Pavolink on 04 April 2013

Considering the dominance that the platform you are comparing had in those years compared to the non-existant of the succesor, multiplatform releases is the only logical reason. I doubt publishers are loyal to a certain hardware producer and more like bussiness men, with horrible decisions sometimes.



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AndrewWK on 04 April 2013
tonymarraffa said:
AndrewWK said:
Wait when was Tomb Raider Playstation exclusive I remember playing it on my PC.

And seriously comparing MGR to MGS. That seems all sorts of wrong.

The Crash and Tekken games just decreased quality wise too much.


It never was. The original was also on Saturn.


I knew (s)he was twisting facts twowards Sony -.-



foxtail on 04 April 2013
VGKing said:
Chandler said:
RE 3 - 3,72
RE 4 - 7,45

 

That's PS1 to PS2. We're talking the transition into the current gen.(PS3 7th gen)

Since RE4 wasn't a Sony exclusive, we can't even do the comparison with RE5.

The funny thing is that RE4 was a Gamecube exclusive, but sold horribly. Once it hit PS2, it sold really well. I know this is off-topic, but this is proof of how 3rd party titles tend to not be very successful when put exclusively on a Nintendo platform. People prefer to play games like Resident Evil on a Sony or Microsoft console.

The thing is that Capcom announced the PS2 version of Resident Evil 4 with added extra content before the release of the Gamecube version, and that hurt sales.

Capcom later did a simple Wii port of the Gamecube version of RE4 (with the added PS2 content & Wii controls) and the game sold really well.  

In fact, if you look at sales (GC + Wii sales) > PS2 sales