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

[Shiken]

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.

If not for exclusives, the majority of people would just game on PC and the rest would mostly gravitate to whichever brand pulled the most weight at the time.  Since there are no more exclusives, the other two would stop making consoles and make PC services instead or just move away from games entirely as there would be no way to win gamers back to a game console that plays the same games as whomever remains on top.  What you are then left with is a monopoly in the console space and everything being on PC.  This also means that whomever is on top will become 100% reliant on 3rd party support, as they would no longer need to make their own games.

I have a feeling you realize this however and that is why you hate exclusives.  Because this would actually be your preferred outcome.