ICStats said:
TheAdjustmentBureau said:
most importantly the point in making is
a, the power debate is internet point scoring
b, people choose the systems that has the games they want in the real world.
|
I don't agree that (a) is just point scoring. It has a tangible "quality" value; it's just less important to you.
Point (b) is true, and nobody is going to dissuade you if you feel that Xbox has the exclusive games you want then that's fine. Enjoy your XB1! You don't have to justify your choice by downplaying the power difference.
I am happy with the game situation for PS4; as far as I'm concerned it has way more games than I have time to play. I have over 12 retail games, a lot of digital games, and I'll add at least 12 more retail games in the next 6 months.
So the point is for me the "power argument" is multiplied manyfold because I enjoy many games, whereas the "exclusives" argument has less weight because "I could play Forza Horizon 2 instead of **** PS4 exclusive" is less important when you have tons to play anyway.
|
This is true, and a fact that's often overlooked by extreme fans of one brand or another : exclusives are less important than ever before. For all of Sony's studios, for all of the Xbox series, the fact remains that most games people play on PS and Xbox systems are multiplats. With the 8th gen, this is more true than ever before. Extended development times and fewer series (along with many of them falling dormant entirely, such as the Rare catalog) means that a gamer can't simply play exclusives even most of the time if they want more than a tiny handful per year.
Nintendo is the polar opposite, their console may as well not exist other than for 1st party gems.
Anyway, as the gen cranks onward, particularly when gen7 stuff starts to die off hardcore, this will be more true than ever before. Even for gen7, I bet if you made a list of the top 100 PS3 titles and the top 100 360 titles, you'd see it HEAVILY dominated by multiplats, with a smattering of big exclusives like Uncharted, Gears, TLOU, Halo, etc.