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One X is the most powerful console ever and is in line with high end pcs.
Console prices are gonna continue to go up.
I honestly didn't even know people still built and played on pc. How was the e3 pc show? Did you preorder RDR2? Oh wait.
PC WINS THE PLATFORM BATTLE AGAIN AT E3 2018
NEWS
Jun 19, 2018
by:Christopher Atwood
After a week of fun and games E3 has come to a close, and it’s time to talk about which platform brought home the E3 crown in terms of raw unforgiving numbers.
Last year, Microsoft’s multiplatform initiative meant that almost every game they released for the Xbox One also saw a dual release on the PC, which resulted in the PC dominating the conference for the first time in years. What’s interesting is that in a numbers game, the PC still had more games than any other platform at the show, but it was a close race made even more complicated by the state of exclusives across every platform.
Even though Xbox made a big stir about bringing over 50 games to E3 to demo, a huge number of them were available for more than Xbox One and PC, which didn’t do much to pump their numbers but did contribute to this E3 becoming one of the most diverse conferences to date with more than 160 new or returning titles taking the stage to show off what they’ve been working on the last year.
So, in the interest of science we took the time to scour the major press conferences and the show floor at E3 to find out how many games are coming out for each platform to make a guess on who took the crown this year. Quantity doesn’t necessarily mean quality, but it does give us an idea on which platform is going to corner the market on exclusives and where you can expect to see the most games this year.
Here’s how it all shakes out.
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A Close Race But PC Technically Takes The Crown
This year has been an undeniably close race with a heck of a lot of contestants, which really makes it difficult to declare a clear winner but technically the PC takes the crown once again with 120 titles thanks to Xbox One’s “Console Exclusivity” policy that brings all their titles to both the Xbox One and the PC.
Yet Sony and the PS4 are close behind with a solid 118 titles, which is close enough to make us question the potential that we might have missed a title or two in the roundup that could have tipped the scale. Either way the Xbox One comes in third with 108 titles, which proves that their focus on bringing more games to E3 this year was successful, but that quite a few of those games were cross or multi-platform titles. The Switch also delivered on increased numbers, bringing an impressive lineup of 48 titles to E3 this year, far from the competition but impressive for Nintendo considering.
That said, it’s worth looking at the sheer number of exclusives across all platforms.
As you would expect because of Xbox One’s “Console Exclusivity” they aren’t bringing any games exclusively to the Xbox One, so if you’re a PC gamer on Windows 10 you’ll have access to almost every game that Xbox One receives, albeit likely through the Windows Store. Likewise, there were very few exclusive titles coming to the PC, only 11 to be exact, but PC has never touted exclusivity, and the sheer number of titles available on Steam that didn’t make the cut for E3 put it in a league all its own as far as exclusives go.
The really interesting numbers this year come from the PS4 and the Switch. Sony brought 20 PS4 exclusive titles, and the Nintendo Switch brought 17, which shows that although Nintendo is still a way off from Sony’s 118 titles at E3 they still brought enough exclusives to compete with Sony’s raw number of exclusives.
Considering consoles usually use exclusives to push console sales it’s a promising step up for the Nintendo Switch that was originally criticized for its relatively small library. It’s even more impressive when you consider that of the 20 PS4 exclusives 11 of them are also PSVR titles, which means that technically the number of Switch exclusives outpaces the base PS4 and every other platform at E3.
Of course, as we mentioned earlier quantity doesn’t necessarily equate to quality. Sony has made a name for themselves off the weight of their exclusives, God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn. Those were big ticket titles last year, and with The Last of Us Part II, Spider-Man, and Ghost of Tsushima on the horizon it’s going to be an exciting year for PS4 exclusives across the board.
Console exclusives may not be the best for the gaming community as a whole and the numbers rolling out for this year’s E3 showcase are definitely showing a trend of fewer and fewer single console titles. Of the titles we saw this year, 118 of them were available on multiple platforms, and 20 titles were available for every major gaming platform from the PC to the Nintendo Switch.
All in all, this trend might mean a loss in the kind of platform superiority metrics we’re used to using, but it definitely shows an overall increase in the quality of games everyone has access to no matter what platform they invest in.