Another prime exaple of one who pushes the narrative about exclusives more so than multiplat titles. Of course exclusives matter but again you keep showing that the hardcore gamer will focus more on thsoe exclusives than the Call of Duties and the FIFA's and the Grand Theft Autos because you want to differenciate what makes Playstation better to you. To most on the other hand they just want a decent library of games and good hardware and a good price. Casuals is what makes a system popular.
Sony did not make hge waves when they enetered the console business because of their 1st party. Plus Sony already had this generation locked up long before big hitters like Spiderman and Horizon came out.
This post misses the elephant for its tail. Nobody is arguing that multiplatform titles like GTA or COD don't sell more than exclusives (or more than any other multiplatform title for that matter), they are after all the best selling PlayStation games
of all time, but when these games are available on multiplatform platforms, it's the exclusives that often matter and make arguably the biggest point of consideration or difference in console or software buying decisions for many gamers.
You can't just disregard the tens of millions of people who have bought PS exclusives, nor the fact that several PS exclusives still sold better than 99% of all multiplatform games released on the system.
Ultimately in terms of total global sales numbers (not just US like this list), some of the COD and Fifa titles actually have very similar sales to some PS exclusives. Hell, as of the last updates, Uncharted 4 globally has actually sold more on just the PS4 (over 17m copies), than Call of Duty Black Ops IIII (14.3m) and Infinite Warfare (13.6m) have on
multiple platforms. Just think about how insane that is.
If it was only multiplatform games that mattered and little else, what would be prioritised most is which platform had the best versions of multiplatform games, and thus the PC versions of multiplatform games would be by far the best selling (when in reality it's the polar opposite), and the Xbox One X would be selling far better than it has been too, but of course, in reality other factors come in to play (price, exclusives, value proposition, friends, features etc).
Add to that, we on this forum are not predominantly made up of casual gamers, so of course we're not going to drone on about COD and Fifa the majority of the time.
