BPX045: Exclusively, Yours

[Neon Ignition]

The end of another generation of consoles is about to arrive and over the coming months we will see the last of the console exclusives launch where the games are intended as lead platforms for the current machines. Able to now look back at the three current generation consoles that have either passed or are soon to pass in favour of their replacements, which do you feel ended up having the best key exclusives?


Nintendo WiiU



- Bayonetta 2
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Devil's Third
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- Game & Wario
- Hyrule Warriors
- Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Lego City: Undercover
- Mario & Sonic at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games
- Mario & Sonic at the 2016 Olympic Games
- Mario Kart 8
- Mario Party 10
- Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash
- New Super Mario Bros U and Super Luigi Bros U
- Nintendoland
- Paper Mario: Color Splash!
- Pikmin 3
- Pokken Tournament
- Rodea the Sky Soldier
- Sonic Boom
- Sonic World
- Splatoon
- Star Fox Zero
- Super Mario 3D World
- Super Mario Maker
- Super Smash Bros for Wii U
- Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE
- The Wonderful 101
- Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Yoshi's Woolly World
- ZombiU



Microsoft Xbox One




- Battletoads
- Crackdown 3
- Crimson Dragon
- DayZ
- D4: Dreams Don't Die
- Dead Rising 3
- Dead Rising 4
- Fable Fortune
- Forza Horizon 2
- Forza Horizon 3
- Forza Horizon 4
- Forza Motorsport 5
- Forza Motorsport 6
- Forza Motorsport 7
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
- Gears of War 4
- Gears of War 5
- Halo: Master Chief Collection
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo: Infinite
- Halo Wars 2
- Halo: Spartan Assault
- Killer Instinct
- Kinect Sports Rivals
- LocoCycle
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Phantom Dust
- Phantasy Star Online 2
- Project Spark
- Quantum Break
- Rare Replay
- ReCore
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- Sea of Thieves
- ScreamRide
- State of Decay: Year One Edition
- State of Decay 2
- Sunset Overdrive
- Super Lucky's Tale
- Titanfall
- Zoo Tycoon


PlayStation 4




- Astro Bot: Rescue Mission
- Beyond: Two Souls Remastered
- Bloodborne
- Blood and Truth
- Concrete Genie
- Days Gone
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune
- Death Stranding
- Detroit: Become Human
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT
- Dreams
- Driveclub
- Earth Defense Force 4.1
- Earth Defense Force 5
- Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain
- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
- Farpoint
- Fighting EX Layer
- Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn
- Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
- flOw
- Ghosts of Tsushima
- God of War
- God of War III Remastered
- Gran Turismo Sport
- Gravity Rush Remastered
- Gravity Rush 2
- H1Z1: Battle Royale
- Heavy Rain Remastered
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- InFamous: Second Son
- InFamous: First Light
- The Inpatient
- Iron Man VR
- Judgment
- Killzone: Shadow Fall
- Knack
- Knack 2
- The Last Guardian
- The Last of Us Remastered
- The Last of Us Part II
- Let it Die
- Littlebigplanet 3
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- MediEvil
- Nioh
- Nioh 2
- No Man's Sky
- The Order: 1886
- Parappa the Rappa Remastered
- Patapon Remastered
- Patapon 2 Remastered
- Persona 5 Royal
- The Playroom
- Ratchet and Clank
- RIGS
- Shadow of the Colossus Remastered
- SingStar Celebration
- Tearaway Unfolded
- Tetris Effect
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Uncharted: Lost Legacy
- Until Dawn
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
- Wipeout Omega Collection
- Yakuza: Ishin
- Yakuza 3 Remastered
- Yakuza 4 Remastered
- Yakuza 5 Remastered
- Yakuza 6: Song of Life


I've included the titles expected to launch in the next handful of months that largely round off this generation.
For you, which system ended up having the best overall quality of exclusive line ups?

[teddymeow]

Obvious choice for me.

PS4 has been one of the best machines I've ever owned. Just a ridiculous number of Sony studios knocked it out of the park this gen. Then there's the 3rd party stuff that helped bolster that line-up.

[DeathAdder]

Wii U has the best of those lists for me, although I've sold many of them and rebought on Switch.

Second is PS4. I enjoyed all the Forza games on Bone, but apart from then the only exclusive I cared about was Rare Replay.

[Cassius_Smoke]

PS4 even though I haven't actually played that many of them, that's a very strong line up. Astrobot and wipeout VR are simply incredible.

[Dogg Thang]

I can only speak from a position of perception because, while I had a WiiU, I never had a PS4 or XBox One. On perception alone, the PS4 takes it for me by quite a wide margin. I bought the WiiU back in the day for other reasons. Since then, I've found little reason to want an XBox One but quite a few to want a PS4. The Last Guardian might be the biggest one, although wasn't that Spider-Man game also PS4 exclusive? That looked great.

But still, nothing on any of those systems has been a system-seller for me but I don't know if that's a comment on the games or my own gaming habits these days.

[MartyG]

It's fairly clear that PS4 had a better line up of exclusives overall, but I find the Forza series very compelling on Xbox. MS really need to pull their finger out and get a better crop of first party titles on the up-coming generation this time around.

[CMcK]

From that list I have seven Xbox One exclusives and two on the PS4 both of which are VR games. Add in Japan only releases and I have the M2 Shot Triggers stuff which would bring it to seven on each system.
Not really a great attach rate for the exclusive titles there.

[Deuteros]

If the Switch hadn't poached most of the Wii U's exclusives, I think it'd go down in history as an highly-collectable console with a tight library of great exclusive games.

As it is, it'll be resigned to the status of a Switch precursor.

[fishbowlhead]

What games have MS got thats ONLY on the OneS/X though?

[Asura]

What games have MS got thats ONLY on the OneS/X though?

Philosophically, none. If there are any, then that wasn't their intent.

It's the primary reason I'll never buy an Xbox while this persists. The whole point of a console for me is to play exclusive games, not the other way around!

[Tobal]

Real winner is PC, it can play every Wiiu game(emu), has all xbox stuff/gamepass, and all of PS's 3rd party stuff and pretty much soon to be getting DS, HDZ(meh) and the rumored bloodborne if twatters to be believed.

Voted PS4, Bloodborne, Noih, Yzero, GoW4 and spiderman, everything else is a remaster or trash.

[fishbowlhead]

Philosophically, none. If there are any, then that wasn't their intent.

It's the primary reason I'll never buy an Xbox while this persists. The whole point of a console for me is to play exclusive games, not the other way around!

Halo5 & sunset overdrive it seems are the only ones not on anything else.

[Pulstar]

Voted #4, because I have not played on the PS4 all that much (PS3 had way more interesting non-PC titles).

[Cepp]

PS4 without a doubt, just for the JP selection.

[Neon Ignition]

Sunset Overdrive got ported to PC so these days Halo 5 is pretty much the biggest XBO game not to make it off the system - yet. I find this harder than expected as despite how wide the field is on PS4 I find those WiiU games to be a strong list, there are a good few I'm not bothered about but the highs on that list are very high. As much as BOTW, MK8 are massive releases for Switch, they're not Switch games so full credit goes to the WiiU for those which makes it a tougher fight against PS4. On PS4 the list of games is huge but then there's a slight against them in that:

Gran Turismo Sport, Uncharted 4, God of War, Ratchet and Clank - Common theme is they're all good exclusives but none are ones I'd consider to be best in their respective runs meaning there's a tinge of disappointment about PS4 exclusives when drilling down into each individual title a lot of the time.