bugrimmar on 17 July 2008
| Sky Render said: The argument does degrade down to egotism on the user end, for the most part, I agree. I was merely pointing out authentic concerns of non-exclusivity, even if most users would not actually bring those issues up. The main issue I wanted to bring up, however, is mediocrity (the bane of all commercial products). A lack of exclusives can lead to mediocrity when none of the games being made by third parties are drawing in new users, and if a system's first-party developer cannot fill the gap with authentic system-seller software, the system's sales will taper off and die faster than they would otherwise. |
well if you look at sony's first party lineup, i don't see anywhere to complain about. we're getting resistance 2, killzone 2, littlebigplanet, gran turismo 5 (eventually... omg i hate polyphony), god of war 3, etc. etc.
there is no lack of good games to come on the first party side, and hence no danger of mediocrity. Aside from that, we're not seeing any downfall on third party games' quality either. let's not speculate about "oh, in ten years, third party devs won't make good games anymore". lets stick to the now and the confirmed releases, which are looking pretty cool.
