Would you rather Bioware remain with EA for a lot of platforms, or be bought by a console maker and fixed, but on only one system

[vivster]

Shiken said:

vivster said:

It's supply and demand. If no great games exist, they will be made. And if there is no exclusivity they will be made multi platform. It's really easy. Great exclusive games don't exist because people crave for exclusivity but because they make a lot of money and people begrudgingly accept exclusivity.

If not a single exclusive AAA game existed everyone would still be fine because if there is demand for great games they will be made and they will be multi platform. Not a single person on this planet would mind if exclusive games didn't exist.

Thats not exactly how economics works there bud.  It is not about exclusives so much as it is funding individual projects or making them in house to offer something that their competition does not have, and since competition drives the industry, exclusives will always be needed to some extent.  That is just business 101.

Do you believe people would stop buying consoles if they didn't have exclusive games? Imagine platform holders actually having to win over consumers by improving their platform instead of just shitting out exclusive games. The horror. Of course that wouldn't work economically because the platform holders would only make a lot of money and not ALL OF THE MONEY.