No one is actually against exclusives. What they always mean to say is they are against games not coming to the platform they own. So many exclusives come out everyday or games skip platforms. It's not until it's a game that skips their platform that exclusives become bad.
Stuff that outright loses Money would go like the Last Guardian would go, but why wouldn't Sony and Nintendo keep releasing games if they keep generating profits? And as far as I can tell most of their games do generate profits. They have a much larger group of studios than other companies do, why wouldnt they keep them and keep making money? theyd Be selling their games to a larger audience.
They don't need to sell to a larger audience. BOTW is pushing 20 million sold. There's no need. People find it easier to just buy a Switch or PS4 and play what they want instead of going on a forum and port praying for a game to come to Xbox.stuff that outright loses Money would go like the Last Guardian would go, but why wouldn't Sony and Nintendo keep releasing games if they keep generating profits? And as far as I can tell most of their games do generate profits. They have a much larger group of studios than other companies do, why wouldnt they keep them and keep making money? theyd Be selling their games to a larger audience.
Xbox and PlayStation don't depend on their games.. noted. Can someone lock this insane thread?😆Nintendo should be the only company allowed to have exclusives because their survival depends on that. Law should enforce Microsoft and Sony to release their games on all platforms. OP is onto something.
All games should be everywhere. Stanning for megacorps who only want your money rather than wanting the art to be as widely available as possible is inhuman.
What a rant. Do you also think all Netflix shows should be available on Prime? What about Whoppers at McDonalds? What is a brand anyway?
that's funny because I'm pretty sure there's hundreds of pages of posts on this forum about how Epic Game Store exclusives are inherently vile despite not needing different hardware to play themTo be fair those aren't really comparabale because it really boils down to how much to invest to get into those ecosystems. I can just go across the street to get a Whopper if I am at McDonalds. I don't need special hardware to watch Netflix Originals. Having exclusives on consoles could be hundreds of dollars just to get started.
And everyone knows that every third party developer has the resources to target and make ports for every platform available for every game they make.No!!!! You can't just decide to put a game you financed the development of on a console that you manufactured exclusively in order to make money! That's AnTi-CoNsUmEr!
tbf i got dat Cuphead on SwitchMicrosoft games are still exclusive. They are released on Xbox and Windows, two Microsoft platforms I don't own.
Outside of Minecraft which was grandfathered in, I can't play an MS game. So can we shut up about them not being exclusive?
But why would I imagine a world where they don't exist when we live in one where they do? It's practically impossible we would've gotten the 3D Mario games in their current form if it wasn't for exclusivity. It would be even more impossible to get Bayonetta 2 at all.For "X only exists because exclusivity" to be true, "X cannot exist if there's no exclusivity" must also be true, however, there is no evidence that proves the second statement.
X exists because of exclusivity, but it can also exist in a world without exclusivity. Is my argument against it.
Sure, Horizon, Mario, Bloodborne or Daemon X Machina may not existed as the way we know them in this alternative universe without exclusivity, but we wouldn't have a point to compare unless we could look into another universe.
Imagine a world where Horizon(for example) didn't exist, and all other exclusives too, and then you try to convince everyone about how this game with a red haired woman hunting robot dinosaurs in a sci-fi snowland is only possible if X company pays for exclusive. You'd be seen as insane.
Exclusives suck in all cases except when the game wouldn't exist otherwise. I'm not gonna buy your console, Sony. Fuck you.
Just barely tolerating Nintendo's BS because their stuff has at least been consistently exclusive forever. Even if it sucks.
This is just all wrong. None of these companies are saying we've made enough money. They're not releasing their exclusives elsewhere because the long term gains will be more beneficial than the short term gain.They don't need to sell to a larger audience. BOTW is pushing 20 million sold. There's no need. People find it easier to just buy a Switch or PS4 and play what they want instead of going on a forum and port praying for a game to come to Xbox.
You mention Gravity Rush earlier and how it could've benefited from being multiplat. That's not true either Sony has internal samples of how much a game would sell on another platform. If it can't do well on a platform of 100 million no need to waste resources releasing on platform of 30-40 million...
Why the hell does Netflix not release their shows on Amazon Prime?!
Not even this, there's PSNow, so no hardware ask, but it's still not good enough. And all realists, who understand how capitalism works, are being called corporate shills or defence force.14 pages for:
"I want to play Bloodborne"
"Buy a PS4"
"No"
Lmfao
I see the capitalist/megacorp defense force is out on full display today.
The internet wasn't popping as much(which was probably for the damn best)Do we have these kinda discussion back in the 90s? Not to my knowledge though.
This port begging thread still open? What the hell is going on here?
What are you inferring? It's a peripheral that could be sold for just about any platform if there was the demand for it?
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Not that it matters, but personally, I had a VR setup for awhile and it just wasn't delivering the sort of gaming experiences I wanted, with the quality I wanted.
I sold it and haven't missed it since.
I'm not sure what it will take for me to dip back in, but certainly the resolution per eye will need to skyrocket (and with it hopefully the distracting "screen door" effect).
Wider availability of titles to the most people is the better thing to do. Might not be the best business sense in some ways but that's just how it goes sometimes. I really appreciate MS' more open and agnostic policy though, it's a great thing to see.
Nevertheless there are plenty of regular consumers who defend this and that I'll never understand.
exclusives are consumer unfriendly in 99% of situations and the 1% where it's debatable are the ones that wouldn't exist without funding
the way people go to bat for a consumer unfriendly practice is beyond me
Honestly? The breakdown is that I don't have to buy a machine specifically for gaming/media consumption in order to play MS games. My PC is used for a massive variety of things and I don't need to buy a special machine just to experience whatever they put out.