PAOerfulone said:
And what was that made the 3DS so popular and do so well? Its exclusive games above all else, because the 3D gimmick certainly wasn't what attracted its userbase, it was Mario Kart, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter, Smash Bros., etc. You absolutely need exclusives to sell your hardware. Would the Switch be anywhere near as successful as it has been if it didn't have Breath of the Wild at launch? Or Mario Kart a month later? Or Splatoon 2 in the summer? Or Mario Odyssey right before the holidays? Those are 4 Huge First Party Nintendo titles from 3 of their biggest franchises that helped sell their new system. Also, of course the Xbox will have more exclusive games than the Switch does at launch, one system has been out for over 4 years, and the other has been out for 10 months, I would hope the Xbox has more exclusives at the moment, otherwise there's a serious problem. And here's another thing, the Xbox One is competing directly with the PS4 and getting its ass kicked left, right, and center. Because the PS4 has a better, stronger, and more diverse exclusive library, to go along with all the 3rd parties that both systems share. So, why would I want to buy an Xbox One to play all these games, when I can buy a PS4 to get those same games, plus all these extra exclusives that they have over the Xbox One? Having great hardware and marketing establishes presence and gets your brand out there, but it's exclusives and first party games, great ones and lots of them, that push the hardware and your brand forward. Until Microsoft realizes that and really starts cracking down and busting out more exclusives and more first party titles in quantity, quality, and diversity, it'll be the same old song and dance when the next Xbox is trying to compete with the PS5. |
You just proved my point right. Didn't the 360 sell more than the PS3 for most of the generation with less exclusives? Was it because COD being the home to the 360? One of many giant 3rd party multiplat games found there home on the 360. Marketing big titles gets you the sales, not how many exclusives a system can dish out and only a handful being good ones.
Explain how the Xbox manage to outsell the PS4 this month with less exclusives? Must of been all those amazing exclusives they released huh?
Top 10 Best selling games on PS4 and only one of them is a PS4 1st party exclusive which is UC4 and that was also heavily bundled..
LivingMetal said:
Not surprisingly wrong once again. Nintendo does not cater to a much larger audience. Nintendo caters to their fans with the gameplay and franchises that they want. And along with that most importantly is quality. This is why Nintendo continues to gain an audience generation after generation. You cater to your core audience and others will notice. Why do you think characters and franchises such as Mario, Yoshi, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Etc have all stood the test of time while all are Nintendo exclusives? This is why they are still in the console Hardware business because fans know what to expect from Nintendo regardless of how well their Hardware sells. |
Erm Nintendo does cater to a larger audience, not every 3DS owner is a Nintendo fan, its called the Portable market. Also Zelda and Mario Kart aren't even Switch Exclusives since there ports. So if you are going to count Zelda and MK8 as exclusive Switch games than might as well throw in every X1 Exclusive game that made it on PC.
The point here is the X1 came 2nd with the smallest library of 1st party games released in 2017 and it manage to beat PS4 which has a lot more games. The Switch with a much smaller library than both competitors came 1st.
It doesn't matter if you have hundreds of 1st party games or 3 in 2017, you can outsell the competitor by clever marketing. 1st party games can help with marketing however all they really have to do is market GTA, COD, RDR2 etc and watch the sales benefit those with the marketing campaigns.
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