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More third party exclusives coming to PS4?

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This question recently came to my mind since many multiplat games, specially medium/small sized and Japanese games are selling many times as much on PS4 when compared to the Xbox One. This is nothing new, since the late PS3/360 games things are working this way, but the difference is increasing even more with the time.

Take as an example MGSV: The Phantom Pain. According to VGChartz, on its first week, it sold 1.6m on PS4 versus 0.23k on XB1. The gap is 8:1. You may say it means nothing, but recent announced games from many Publishers are indeed exclusives to PS4. Take Square Enix as an example: before the generation started, they already had FFXV and KHIII in the works for both PS4 and XB1, but all of their Japanese recent stuff are PS4 exclusive. I believe some of these games would be multiplat if the XB1 was more sucessful among different genres/sold better.

So, in the future will we see more and more games becoming exclusive to PS4? Will the trend continue? What do you think about it?



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Maybe Japanese devs but that's as far as I can see this going. 



Yeah I think so. Especially due the push for first party that Spencer emphasized, there would a lot less tug of war, and now Sony has a bigger plate to acquire. How much they get, however, I would have no idea.

**Actually some of the bigger 3rd party titles, like SFV, might only be "console exclusive". With the the growing PC community, devs are not willing to ignore them as much



If a title is going to sell well in North America, then I think an Xbox release is well warranted. The more the split favors regions other than North America, the more the logic of PS4 exclusivity comes into play.



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Its about the same distribution as late last gen. Only AA's would really move to the dominant platform at this point. And the few that are end up being funded by the major manufacturers anyway.



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Japanese games have slanted PS4 just like it did PS3 last gen. It makes sense.

The rest is pretty much even, as it should be.



lol is this a troll/trick question? Of course Devs are flocking to the PS4 because this is business & their livelihood is on the line. They follow the money. X1 has sold 14M vs PS4 27M. Also PS4/Sony has more lax rules for Indies, 2nd, 3rd, 1st party games. They give their Devs more freedom with less restrictions. Also easier to port PC games to PS4 due to it being more powerful & closer to PC builds. (1080p/30-60FPS on PS4 vs 900p/30FPS on X1) Then you also have the MMORPG aspect of PC & PlayStation players allowed to game together on the same servers. Also PS has the JRPG market on lock too! MS really screwed the pooch on this Gen imo. Same with Nintendo with Wii U. Imo we are 5 years or so away from NES becoming a handheld only company while leasing their 1st party games to PlayStation due to them being the Japanese Company as Xbox has a putrid following in Japan. (like SEGA or Atari before did with their propeties or outright sell them to Sony) NES can still be relevant as a handheld company while also leasing their top 1st party games like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bros etc to PS. I could also see in the near future every PC game coming to PS4 or PS5 too. (although atm like at least 75%+ PC games are already coming to PS4)



I think publishers in general are moving towards sales



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So the PS4 has double the install base - which helps a ton. But everyone also has to keep in mind that some third party games are selling 3-5 times better on PS4, and so it has just flat out become the third party console of choice.

Thus it would not surprise me at all if Sony continued to get more and more third part exclusives like Near.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]