This thought was sparked by Watch Dogs numbers, with the PS4 doing obviously better than the X1 and third party games thus doing better on it as well (especially with the right marketing ;)), could it become better for medium/small developers to just make their games exclusive to PS4, if the generation continues on the way it's doing right now?
For the big developers that expect to sell millions of copies of their games, it'll always be smart to release on both platforms, but if you're a smaller team an maybe only expect your game to sell 1,5 million, why not just go PS4 exclusive?
Some advantages of this would be:
Porting obviously takes resources, those resources could instead be used to work on something else if the game was on only one platform. The Devs could put more manpower into making the game better or just have it be done faster, which would lower its development costs.
Exclusives generally get an attention and hype bonus (e.g. that russian PS4 exclusive that nobody would've ever mentioned if it wasn't going to be exclusive). Also Sony would possibly be willing to carry some marketing costs for exclusive games from third parties as well.
The big disadvantage would of course be the loss of a still very big audience, but for smaller games that could probably be balanced out by the advantages I listed.
So do you think that we might see some more third party exclusives for the PS4, if the gen continues like it started?











