No it's not what I want. I want their games to be exclusive. Copying Microsoft is the complete opposite of what I want. If they make it a habit PlayStation hardware will be irrelevant to me. I don't think they are foolish enough to go all in like that yet though. Nintendo seems to be the only company that knows what exclusives are about and value it completely.
Why would you want that ?
Why would PlayStation hardware be irrelevant for you ? There are other reasons than exclusives to choses an hardware nowadays: Interface, services, controllers, friendlist and such.
Exclusives used to be a way to exist before when the gaming industry was about a box launching games. Nothing else.
Of course 1st party titles will remain exclusives in the foreseable future. But we already shifted toward a service based industry.
As for Death Stranding, it's just as I said before: People should accept that from the very begining, Kojima had a huge leverage for negotiations. People only think of him as the Metal Gear series creator. He was also VP at Konami. And his name is worth a ton. Getting a total console exclusivity is already difficult because as I said:
Kojima had a wide choice for publishing partners.
And while some people might have some fetish that Sony would own Kojima, that the guy would happily work and only care about artsy stuff as long as he gets a blank check, that's not how it works. You don't go from VP of a big japanese publisher to making games in a studio owned by a big publisher without any control nor ownership to some degrees on your creation. Especially after the whole Konami/MGS debacle.
It's a win-win for both parties involved.
