AAA 3rd party publishers can just fuck off altogether as far as I'm concerned. Nowadays you get the best games from first party studios from Sony and Nintendo and from Indie devs. Ubisoft, EA, Activision and the other big publishers are just working on how to squeeze the most money out of the gamer, lacking almost any creativity while making their games. Ubisoft games feel always the same, Activsion doesn't even try anymore and just slaps whatever is popular right now onto Call of Duty, EA fucks up so many times I don't even know where to begin. And Bethesda just keeps re-releasing Skyrim all the time.

Seriously, I don't even care too much about 3rds anymore. Sure, there are some exceptions here and there and every once in a while someone releases a good game. But most of the time it's crap.

Exclusives is not a consumer friendly practice. Unless you are talking for the Rich who can afford everything, why would you want to support barring gemes for 1 platform? This is one reason why i prefer PC gaming over console gaming, its one giant community not split into 3 smaller ones.

Nope! I get the nolstagia attached to this because from my perspective I was lucky enough to have every to have almost every console up until this generation and they all had their quirks, unique lineups and unique graphical representations up until PS3/360. But when I hear that people never played FFVII or Zelda Ocarina of Time because they had the wrong console thats just sad. Now we don't have huge differences in tech and my fanboy days are long gone, so I'm really just happy for games to be on every platform that doesn't doesn't noticeably hinder its quality.

The only thing to be gained from exclusives is slightly better optimisation and the potential to release a handful of months earlier.

Also, unlike when I was a child, I now pay for consoles/games myself and I have no interest in spending $1000 in hardware just so I can have access to Zelda/Halo and The Last of Us.

What kind of nonsense. 

They're huge investments and if someone is not comfortable investing in additional 2 platforms, it doesn't mean that the experiences aren't important for them, it just means that they have to weigh it up against other priorities in life. There are many times when I've missed out on experiences I was very passionate about like concerts, festivals, holidays etc because I have to weight it up against other possibilities/responsibilities. Opportunity costs. Lets not limit peoples experiences just so we can boast of some minor pixel differences and slighter better draw distances

Bloodborne
Octopath Traveler
Tales of Zesteria
Mario Plus Rabbids
Neir A
Nioh
Bayonetta 2 and 3
Final Fantasy XIV is platform exclusive

I dunno man, it seems that only one platform lacks in both 1st AND 3rd party exclusives. The other two still get their fair share.

Yea. I think Porsches should be cheap and affordable to everybody too. > _>

There is exactly one, and only one, good reason for a game to be exclusive to a certain platform. That reason being if the publisher of said console is directly responsible for the game's existence. Be that because it's their studio working on it, it's their IP, they're funding an outside studio's project, etc. If the game wouldn't exist without their involvement, it is completely understandable that the game be exclusive to their platform/services. Any game where this is not the case means somebody is simply paying in order to keep something away from other people, rather than investing in order to provide us with something that we wouldn't otherwise get.

Now, obviously, there are scenarios where doing something like this could still be of benefit to the publisher, but as a consumer, there is literally no good reason to ever root for this.

Today is Sony IR day, and Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO John Tsuyoshi Kodera shared a few statements on the company’s current business plans

As for business strategies beyond 2018, Sony will put more effort in the development and enhancement of exclusive titles.

Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2018/05/21/sony-ceo-playstation-4-finally-entering-closing-stages-console-life-cycle/#hRQpzWMEcO7WuWxA.99

win10 store, uplay, origin, steam, battlenet, riot game launcher thing....

Is it really one giant community?

Umm yes, anyone with a PC has access to those apps.. unless you game on Apple which than you have a different problem.