Developers Less Inclined to Develop For Xbox One?

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Apparently around 18% more Devs plan to release games on PS4 compared to that of XB1.
People keep saying sales don't matter. I think if they matter to Dev's then they should matter to us. Ultimately what the Dev's like affects what games your system of choice will receive.

At the moment the disparity isn't very big, but imo MS needs to lower it's price to shift more units so that it is more attractive to develop on relative to PS4, else securing any exclusives from now on will be extremely expensive.

You can see by the WiiU's paltry numbers how it effects the incentive for developers. The XB1 sold allot of units very quickly but then so did the WiiU. If XB1's sales continue to slow like they have done, MS might just find themselves with a problem similar to the WiiU. I imagine Titanfall will give the XB1 a big boost, and buy them some to strategize.

http://www.gengame.net/2014/02/sony-sells-5-3-million-ps4-units-developers-less-inclined-to-develop-for-xbox-one/
 
Could have just posted this in the Xbox thread. As much as I like to read a good debate it will be another pointless argument and people justifying their choice.

Some people like Xbox, some like playstation or pc and the extremely odd person games exclusively on a Nintendo console...

But let's all just deal with it and talk about the games. Something that we all appreciate regardless of format and have a passion for.
 
This figure has no bearing on how many exclusives one console will have vs the other. All it takes is for MS to flash the cash and most developers will gladly then bring their game to xbox one.
 
When is this troll gonna get a temp ban or something? Cant you just make one thread and post this nonsense into it.

Like all revs aren't already committed to what they where going to rev for over 6+months ago for lead time when they would have no clue of sales figures if any kind.
 
Got to say this generation has brought out some of the worst trolls ever, I am absolutely bored to death of reading the same old cr*p day in day out, full of people who can predict the next 5 years, nothing is simple in the video game world unlike the trolls.
 
Can't see developers not wanting to develope games for xbox one however it will become extremely difficult for MS to get exclusives though.
 
An Exception said:
Apparently around 18% more Devs plan to release games on PS4 compared to that of XB1.
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It seems you never even read the article?

According to the survey, nearly 20 percent of developers are looking to release their next game on PS4, with about 17 percent on Xbox One.
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Wow 3% difference, massive news....considering Sony has more 1st party devs than MS do?
 
MS usually just pay developers to develop for their console.

Much like titanfall was supposed to be multi platform until MS payed them for exclusivity.

I don't see MS not continuing this trend tbh of just buying games.
 
I think most developers will release on both due to the similarity in architecture, Xbox One will still have an install base worth targeting and porting from one to the other will be childs play... What will hurt Xbox One the most is having the worse versions of multiplatform games, that was arguably one of the biggest reasons for Xbox 360's success (alongside Xbox Live which had Sony playing catch up).
 
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You're creating an awful lot of these types of threads OP.

I don't stop in on the forums as often as I used to, and even I've picked up on it. :o
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Yes, I had that thought too. Everyone has surfs this forum or interested in this stuff knows it's less powerful. They either had more trust in MS or knew it had less power and bought it anyway without caring. Or it might just have the games they wanted to play in the future.

If I choose a console this generation it will be the Xbone if and when and Gears game comes out. I know it's power limitations, it's not like I'm going in blind. Especially not how often it's mentioned on this forum :D

Until then I will carry on with the 360. It already does 720p at 30 fps and already has a kinectless bundle for 1/8th the cost of a PS4 ;)
 
Thing is we all know the much thrashed out arguments about GPU/DDR5/Power/Price/Kinect/ blah blah blah and whilst they're perfectly valid points they've been done to death and don't add anything to the console gaming community unless perhaps some one come sup with some new "news". Do we have to have yet another thread designed to start yet another argument?
 
Who is this guy? Is he sponsored by Sony or something? This sub-forum is nigh on unreadable at the moment, he's like the Troll that feeds himself.
 
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