lol the reply for that:
So, a personal experience means everyone is doing it? They have evidence of shit and are crying because ps is doing good.
It's not too surprising when you consider how much ResetERA leans Nintendo. A lot of the baseless, idiotic talking points they use for PlayStation to "copy" Microsoft's gaming strategy, they don't dare use them with Nintendo. Suggest that Nintendo port some of their games to PC (even though this would lead to more revenue, as they make the argument for Sony, and last I checked Nintendo is a company that also would like more revenue & profit), and you'll probably get a gang of mods and admin trying to "correct" you why that isn't a good idea. But only when it's Nintendo.
Constructive criticism of Nintendo is heavily restricted there, whereas with PlayStation it's the complete opposite: the more outrageous your criticism, the more likely that thread gets bumped to the top. Microsoft is somewhere in the middle relative those two. Honestly I think part of it is because a lot of that staff, and some posters, are old enough to recall when PS2 curbstomped the Gamecube (and the PS1 doing more or less the same to N64) and knocked Nintendo off from being #1 in the console market. It's not too dissimilar from the delusional fanatics who are itching at MS to "dominate" Sony because they blame Sony for Sega leaving the market as a console maker and think MS achieving what it wants is "revenge" for Sega.
Just all playground, childish fantasy BS that you'd think they would have grown out of when they reached adulthood, but nope.
I visited installbase and it appears they've mostly left the PS5 software argument alone for this week, now it appears they're arguing if Octopath 2 is selling less because it's not exclusive to Switch, which makes absolutely zero sense, but just another slight dig at a game being released on PS.
As time goes on, people get more clever in concealing their biases, but to those aware of their leanings, it just means more opportunities to see them show said biases in how they let them contort their talking points.
There is no logical means to conclude a game sells LESS because it's on MORE platforms. That's a fanboy/fangirl argument. Otherwise if this notion were one they held true to a logical conclusion, I would hope none of those same individuals have made arguments for "why FF XVI will sell less because it's not on PC and Xbox", or arguments that Forspoken would have done better if it were in Game Pass (a service that Microsoft's own data shows leads to some cannibalization of software sales).
Not without a damn good theory to rationalize it, anyway.
PS4, and now even 5 are selling third party software almost as well as the switch (Sometime better) despite the gigantic gulf in hardware sales. Japanese pubs know where their bread gets buttered and its PS and PC.
Although I think it depends on the type of game, it is worth noting for the AAA Japanese devs, absolutely they rely on PS and to a smaller degree (at least in Japan), PC.
Like if it's a Sonic game, I think you're still going to see the majority of those sales on a Nintendo system, that's where most of the fanbase is. Maybe that changes in the future but it just seems to me Nintendo's been Sonic's new home since Gamecube. Most other Japanese AAA games though? Yeah, I think they need PlayStation, for many reasons.
They have an entire thread dedicated over a nontroversy because some dumb writer from The Verge wants their N'gai Croal RE5 moment.
