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Is this truth>?

yes 168 42.21%
 
maybe 58 14.57%
 
no 172 43.22%
 
Total:398
theprof00 on 04 April 2013
AndrewWK said:
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 -.-

jesus christ
Actually you're right. Tomb Raider was originally released on Saturn and then ported a year later to PS. I guess that means all my examples are wrong now. Sigh.



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theprof00 on 04 April 2013
foxtail said:
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

Every resevil game has been multiplat. The game was never an exclusive on sony platforms, only a timed exclusive, and even then not by much. Like I said, whoever said RE going from exclusive to mulitplat obviously has no idea that resevil was never exclusive.



Chris Hu on 04 April 2013
TheLastStarFighter said:
Gran Turismo:

GT3: 14.33
GT4: 11.36
GT5: 8.83

Gran Turismo should have stayed a Sony exclusive!

Good one.



AndrewWK on 04 April 2013
theprof00 said:
AndrewWK said:
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 -.-

jesus christ
Actually you're right. Tomb Raider was originally released on Saturn and then ported a year later to PS. I guess that means all my examples are wrong now. Sigh.

Kinda, DMC 3 was available for PC as well



KHlover on 04 April 2013
AndrewWK said:
theprof00 said:
AndrewWK said:
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 -.-

jesus christ
Actually you're right. Tomb Raider was originally released on Saturn and then ported a year later to PS. I guess that means all my examples are wrong now. Sigh.

Kinda, DMC 3 was available for PC as well

The Kingdom Hearts games never went multiplat, they just changed consoles.



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theprof00 on 04 April 2013
AndrewWK said:
theprof00 said:
AndrewWK said:
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 -.-

jesus christ
Actually you're right. Tomb Raider was originally released on Saturn and then ported a year later to PS. I guess that means all my examples are wrong now. Sigh.

Kinda, DMC 3 was available for PC as well

Games on PC don't tend to interrupt historical console games. We've always considered exclusive to mean console exclusive here on vgc...otherwise 360 wouldn't have any exclusives.



J_Allard on 04 April 2013
Turkish said:
Not only franchises but devs themselves who went multiplat damaged themselves. Ninja Theory went from Heavenly Sword to DmC

Looks like a win for Ninja Theory, especially when you also throw in Enslaved.



yo_john117 on 04 April 2013

So Prof; i'm curious, do you accept that your original hypothesis is incorrect (or should i say the smallest reason why those titles have not sold as well)?



Wright on 04 April 2013
theprof00 said:

Games on PC don't tend to interrupt historical console games. We've always considered exclusive to mean console exclusive here on vgc...otherwise 360 wouldn't have any exclusives.


But then, Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad would still be a 360 exclusive, which crushes the competition without a blink. I mean, not even The Last Of Us can hold against that game.



superchunk on 04 April 2013

Sometimes the franchise just isn't as much in demand. Additionally, with this last gen the console market isn't so heavily Sony... many of those that bought it on PS2, now own a 360 meaning the combined sales are accurate and would have been significantly less had it only been on one console, regardless of which one.