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

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vivster said:

Shiken said:

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.

You mean like, when Sony lost billions on the PS3 and Valve made billion with Steam, giving Gaben a place in the forbes list in the process, while average quality and production budget went down the shitter?