Times change, generations of consoles follow each other and analysts remain. In a market with three major platforms such as Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella has developed a series of research on the commercial performance and the factors that make them succeed or not in the market. What did he find out? That exclusive games are the key.
Mat Piscatella, in an endless thread in Resetera in which he analyzes the factors of success or failure of a console in the market, wanted to make clear that there is a differentiating element that prevails over others when it comes to explaining success or failure and the performance of a console in today's competitive market.
"For me they are the exclusive ones that can explain almost all of the differences between the current consoles today, although Fortnite has served as a small push for almost everyone, with different degrees of success," explained Piscatella. This statement would go completely contrary to the continuous reiterations of other professionals in the sector. Michael Pachter, claimed not too long ago that the exclusivities did not have the importance we believed in the market.
In this sense, Microsoft, perhaps the most disadvantaged of the three has begun to correct its lack of first-party titles with new policies and buying new development studies of great significance.
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