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r505Matt on 11 February 2010
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Pristine20 said:

Pros

Many timed exclusives were seen as true exclusives earlier in the gen and really helped the 360 take off

Cons

I think their effect has mostly worn off and most people tend to expect the vast majority of 360's 3rd party exclusives to hit the ps3 anyway nowadays. For example, we get people posting signs o ME2 ps3 all the time despite aving no concrete evidence IMO yet.

Because of this, those who would have bought the 360 for a game like ME2 would hold off this time (assuming they already have ps3s of course). Even all those JP players who bought the 360 for its JRPG "exclusives" back then probably wont do the same again.

One could argue that its immoral because those JP players may not have bought the 360 if they knew some of those games were coming to ps3. On the other hand, business is hardly moral and the timed exclusives really did serve the purpose for which they were intended and have greatly boosted the 360's status in the industry.

The Mass Effect 2 for PS3 thing had some 'evidence' but people were too quick to assume things from a small bit of information.

For the record, if someone is holding back on buying Mass Effect 2 because they want it on PS3, he/she is silly, stop waiting. Go get the game, it's an amazing game. Either get it on PC (if you have a good PC) or buy a 360. It's totally worth it. The only 'negative' is that I feel you should play the first game first or you can't fully appreciate it. Then again, if you think it's a bad thing to play a game with one of the best stores (yeah yeah, totally subjective) this gen, well, then I don't know.


Back on topic, saying timed exclusivity is 'immoral' is implying there is some sense of morality in business, which there is not.

Also, think of it this way. If a store says "I'm the only guy in town selling this product", and it's true when he says it, then later another store in town starts selling that product, that doesn't make his original statement false. It was true when he said it, and that's what's important.

It's totally a play on words, but that doesn't make it wrong. When they said Tales of Vesperia was "only on x-box", they were right. Nothing deceitful about it at all. Besides, what kind of company would say "only on xbox...for now, it'll be released for other platforms later". A company like that wouldn't last long. MS was in 3rd place, so they had to do anything and everything they could think of to get ahead.