Are exclusives anti-consumer?

[KBG29]

For me exclusives are are gifts. They are companies paying large amounts of time and money, to the most talented developers, allowing them to put their full passion into a project. Regardless of whether you like a single platform, or every platform, exclusives are where the best experience is at on every platform.

I see multiplatform titles to be the truly anticonsumer games. Sure everyone has access to them, but most have no passion, and no soul. They are typically the lowest possible effort, for the largest possible return. Not only do they try to get cash up front from consumers on every device possible, but then they continue to try and milk consumers with never ending micro transactions.

If course there are exceptions on both sides, there are uninspired exclusives and genuinely passionate multiplats. It probably 80/20, 80% of exclusives are passion projects, with 20% made just to fill a spot in the line up. With multiplats it is 20% passion, and 80% just to fill a place in the market.