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r505Matt on 11 February 2010
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Goddbless said:
GamerOhaLAA said:
I was talking to a buddy of mine about this issue earlier. I think that Microsoft should build first party developement to make REAL exclusive games than having timed exclusives. It is a good strategy to have timed exclusives, but it sucks when you hear that a game that was so called exclusive to your fave console goes to the rival one. I hate that about MS. They say Netflix, GTA Episodes, Bioshock, lost planet and so on are for Xbox ONLY and then a year later, they shrug their shoulders. They should just say its timed from the start.

I agree wholeheartedly. Timed exclusives only get you a temporary win. We are all fans of great games so if you can't keep those great games there's no reason to stay with your console.

I disagree. It's a different business tactic, and it's working well for them. If you're truly a fan of great games, and there's a game you really want, you'll buy the console that gets the game first, you won't wait a year for it to come out on a different console. Especially if there's no guarantee that the game will be released on another console or not.

If you don't care so much for the game, then it wouldn't convince you to buy any system anyways, so it wouldn't matter, even if you end up getting it.

I think the way they're doing it is lower-risk, so it's better business. But that could be proven wrong at any time, so who knows?