Not every company has every genre filled. Sony nor Nintendo have a FPS franchise as successful as halo
Im a bit confused by this comment as in consecutive sentences you refer to not having an entry in the FPS genre, and then stating that they dont have an entry as successful as Halo.
As for upcoming games. Where's sonys multiplayer co-op survival game( State of Decay)? Where's the shared world adventure game(Sea of Thieves)?
I mean, you could create a topic about this as theres certainly a conversation about this to be had Sony doesnt generally create co-op experiences, which is a shame. In fact, they even seem to be veering away from multiplayer in general, I guess because they had a lot of failures in the field last gen (MAG, Starhawk, Twisted Metal to name a few).
Halo 3 sold 13 mil units (at launch month it had 50% attach rate in almost 15 mil consoles) and Halo 4 sold 10 mil (12% attach rate) and because it was a worst game than Halo 3 lost in sales. Still can you tell me one Sony first party in this gen that achieved these kind of sales numbers?
No, because there isnt one; Halo 3 was a cultural phenomenon and I dont think a Sony/MS game has made such a big impact since. Has any MS game this gen sold that much this gen?! Closest for Sony would be Uncharted 4 which is at 8 million sales, and I believe last gen their biggest-selling game was GT5 with 10+ million copies sold.
I am just saying that the age that the first party games made sales like halo 3 are long gone (with an exception of nintendo and its platforms) and that third party studios make or brake platforms.
I disagree. Look at the reception the reveal for The Last of Us Part II got. God of War was the highest-viewed trailer from E3 last year (more so than huge third-party tentpoles like Battlefield 1 and Watch Dogs 2) and weve just Horizon come out and sell 2.6 million copies in a fortnight. The third-party titles sell more of course, but to infer that first-party titles are no longer as important as they once were is nonsense IMO. And then of course platform holders make their consoles appealing by having a spread of high-quality games across a range of genres. Its the key way to differentiate consoles from one another; especially when third-party releases are typically 90% the same across consoles.
My argument is that third party games sale more than first party games, thus first party games play a lesser role in a platform success, and based on this assumption, one factor that will make people choose the Scorpio over PS4 will be that the third party games will run a lot better.
We shall see. I dont think most people are going to pay considerably more for better visuals on the same games, and the Xbone S and PS4 Slim will continue to sell far more than their more powerful counterparts. A lot of people are putting an awful lot of stock in Scorpio but I dont see it being a much different scenario from the PS4 Pro.
I can't think of any highly-acclaimed ARPG which was cancelled by them. Just one which was absolutely slated anytime it was shown, and now is suddenly thought to of been the second coming of Christ after it's been cancelled.
Is this a strawman? I've never used the term before, but I think this is a strawman. Of course Scalebound was not highly-acclaimed, because a product that has not been played by the press or the public cannot be acclaimed. Again, Kamiya is one of the most successful and consistent Japanese directors ever, and despite its couple of weak showings the assumption is that he would have delivered a good game.
