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My question is:

If people dont buy consoles for its Exclusives but for Multiplat Games, why is it that the Xbox One keeps selling when the multiplats looks and run better on the Ps4?

If so, which is the main reason to buy the Xbox One instead of a Ps4?

The controller? Brand Loyalty? UI?

So, we can conclude that according to some people here, a controller design (for example) is more important than exclusive games when it comes to console sales?

What makes a console unique?



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LudicrousSpeed said:

Uh.. yes you did.

GribbleGrunger said:

I see this 'exclusives don't sell consoles' everywhere and then I look at how many people preorder exclusive bundles and wonder why people think this. Exclusives are the ONLY reason to own one console over another. People will buy a PS4 because of UC4, people will buy a PS4 because of The Last Guardian and people will buy a PS4 for GT. It's a nonsense argument that's proved wrong over and over again.

LOL. Read it a few times. That's about 'having to choose' not just 'buying a console'. Perhaps I should have put PS4 over an XB1 but that wouldn't be as ballanced or as fair. Given a choice between two consoles which mainly have the same games, the ONLY differentiating factor is the exclusives. Literally thousands of posts on GAF after the UC4 trailer was shown were 'Time to buy a PS4'. You can pretend I've said something else, you can pretend it's now about percentages, you can try to move goalposts but you won't change the simple fact exclusives sell consoles.



 

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AEGRO said:

My question is:

If people dont buy consoles for its Exclusives but for Multiplat Games, why is it that the Xbox One keeps selling when the multiplats looks and run better on the Ps4?

If so, which is the main reason to buy the Xbox One instead of a Ps4?

The controller? Brand Loyalty? UI?

So, we can conclude that according to some people here, a controller design (for example) is more important than exclusive games when it comes to console sales?

What makes a console unique?

Mindblowing, isn't it. It's such a simple thing but for some reason a lot of people don't want to acknowledge that exclusives sell consoles. I wonder if there's a difference between those people who own a console with plenty of exclusives and those that own consoles with few? I have a good idea how that would turn out.



 

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GribbleGrunger said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

Uh.. yes you did.

LOL. Read it a few times. That's about 'having to choose' not just 'buying a console'. Perhaps I should have put PS4 over an XB1 but that wouldn't be as ballanced or as fair. Given a choice between two consoles which mainly have the same games, the ONLY differentiating factor is the exclusives. Literally thousands of posts on GAF after the UC4 trailer was shown were 'Time to buy a PS4'. You can pretend I've said something else, you can pretend it's now about percentages, you can try to move goalposts but you won't change the simple fact exclusives sell consoles.

LOL, I like how you kind of backpedal away from the comment as if you didn't say it and then while trying to distance from it, you just say it again. No, friend, exclusives are not the only differentiating factor :)

And I don't give a crap about thousands of posts on GAF. A forum like GAF is full of hardcore gamers. A million GAF posts won't change sales charts friend, sorry.



LudicrousSpeed said:

LOL, I like how you kind of backpedal away from the comment as if you didn't say it and then while trying to distance from it, you just say it again. No, friend, exclusives are not the only differentiating factor :)

And I don't give a crap about thousands of posts on GAF. A forum like GAF is full of hardcore gamers. A million GAF posts won't change sales charts friend, sorry.

I'll leave you with your tunnel vision because it's clear you just don't want to see.



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

Mindblowing, isn't it. It's such a simple thing but for some reason a lot of people don't want to acknowledge that exclusives sell consoles. I wonder if there's a difference between those people who own a console with plenty of exclusives and those that own consoles with few? I have a good idea how that would turn out.

You're still trying to argue something no one here has said. We didn't say exclusives don't sell consoles. We simply said multiplats sell more. Again, exclusives are secondary. That is what was said. Secondary does not mean irrelevant or a non-factor. In fact secondary kind of makes it almost second? And please, don't start the console warz BS. Don't resort to mud slinging because you're losing the argument.

GribbleGrunger said:

I'll leave you with your tunnel vision because it's clear you just don't want to see.

Toodles!



DEAD_ORIGINAL said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Yeah I know it well, I have the X360s media remote for it so you can skip tracks without having to press the Xbox button at all or go into the menu it's really handy, can pick um up in most pre owned game stores now for around €1 lol, but I just wasn't aware that feature was removed with the X1, I've found myself using the PS4 controller with a set of headphones attached listening to music while walking around the house and making dinner here a few times lol, it's a great little mp3 player.

That remote man i wished i had that. PS4 is great at music i prefered the original music player as the new one suspends the game and takes longer.

https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=882224023825#.Vt2O5-Y-uFY

You're living in the UK right? CEX have um for £1.50 lol, but yeah I got mine inside the bundle with the X360 HDDVD player :D eeerrrr I think I maybe paid €3 for it (which included a month of Sky TV and it was either 1/3 month Xbox live gold sub in the box lol)

CEX are a great site, Jealous of ya being able to get to the UK version of it, they refuse to ship to Ireland and and I can't use parcel motel from them the way that CEX sends out their stuff.

Still tho if you are looking for little bits like that CEX is the way to go, they charge a single fee too for an order, so if you get 1 item it's £2.50 per order, but if you buy like... 20 or 30 things from um the postage is still the same.

 

I didn't see the older version of the PS4 music player, I only picked up mine in Jan and mostly find myself either listening to music on Spotify or youtube if I'm doing other stuff in the sitting room.



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You really have guts to blame others for tunnel vision omg.. Again, no-one said exclusives don't sell consoles. And they are not the only difference between consoles either. You know what's mind blowing? PS4 has better multiplats and more exclusives, yet majority of X1 owners didn't buy those big X1 exclusives. Why is that?



Ganoncrotch said:
DEAD_ORIGINAL said:

That remote man i wished i had that. PS4 is great at music i prefered the original music player as the new one suspends the game and takes longer.

https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=882224023825#.Vt2O5-Y-uFY

You're living in the UK right? CEX have um for £1.50 lol, but yeah I got mine inside the bundle with the X360 HDDVD player :D eeerrrr I think I maybe paid €3 for it (which included a month of Sky TV and it was either 1/3 month Xbox live gold sub in the box lol)

CEX are a great site, Jealous of ya being able to get to the UK version of it, they refuse to ship to Ireland and and I can't use parcel motel from them the way that CEX sends out their stuff.

Still tho if you are looking for little bits like that CEX is the way to go, they charge a single fee too for an order, so if you get 1 item it's £2.50 per order, but if you buy like... 20 or 30 things from um the postage is still the same.

 

I didn't see the older version of the PS4 music player, I only picked up mine in Jan and mostly find myself either listening to music on Spotify or youtube if I'm doing other stuff in the sitting room.

Will look at CEX and Spotify is brilliant.



LudicrousSpeed said:
GribbleGrunger said:

I haven't said that.

Uh.. yes you did.

GribbleGrunger said:

I see this 'exclusives don't sell consoles' everywhere and then I look at how many people preorder exclusive bundles and wonder why people think this. Exclusives are the ONLY reason to own one console over another. People will buy a PS4 because of UC4, people will buy a PS4 because of The Last Guardian and people will buy a PS4 for GT. It's a nonsense argument that's proved wrong over and over again.

You misread that and exclusives are selling consoles.