Why Console Exclusivity is good! Agree or Disagree?!

[famousringo]

thekitchensink said:

famousringo said:
For a second I thought the words were yours. I was trying to figure out how CGI could be so full of rage all the time and yet project such a calm demeanor.

I agree with Mr. Angrypants. People who want a single, unified hardware platform for games are daft and Sony needs to pick a goram name for their motion controller already.

Guess I'm daft, then...

 

What people fail to realize is that there would still be competition if there was a single unified platform.  You think there was no competition in movies when the only format was DVD?  There was--it was just hidden from the consumer.  You think Universal didn't want to sell more movies in a similar timeframe than MGM?  That WB wasn't competing with Disney?  We still got plenty of incredible films in the last decade, there was still competition, it was just hidden from the consumer, and that's a good thing.

Movies don't have a unified platform, so I don't get the comparison. You can watch them in a theatre with various levels of audio/visual quality, in two dimensions or in three. You can watch them at home on your TV, via a signal carried from a tower, satellite or cable. Or you can watch it at home played from one of a few different disc formats that you can buy from Wal-Mart or rent from Blockbuster. You can watch it on your handheld device with a copy that you downloaded from the internet.

Some of these movies are even "platform exclusive" in that they're direct-to-video, or made for TV, or only available online, or contain exclusive unrated content on the DVD. Indeed every theatrical release is a timed exclusive.

The movie market uses a vast array of different hardware and software solutions to deliver content. I think video games might actually have less variance in all the ways they can be delivered.