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Squilliam on 22 May 2010
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CGI-Quality said:
WilliamWatts said:


Hardly. When you share similar controls, performance etc it doesn't matter if a game is exclusive. Only Nintendo has made truely successful games which are truely unique to their system. You could pick up and drop any PS3 exclusive barring one or two from the PS3 and place it on the 360 and the average person wouldn't know the difference. Thats why HD exclusivity is about denying people good games and not about the capabilities of the systems.

Which, of course, is strictly your opinion.

There's one teenie, tiny advantage to having an exclusive line-up: DIFFERENTIATING your offering. What the Hell is the point of multiple consoles with the same games? (a lovely question that hardly is answered)

What the hell is the point in saying that. Its all opinion, most cited sources are infact supporting opinions. There are very few facts involved and once you get into interpretation you're once again into opinions.

In any case whilst im at it I may as well address the rest:

You've got your cart coming before your horse. The only meaningful differentiation comes from meaningful differentiation between platforms. Theres no point in multiple near identical consoles because you may as well have identical games in the sense that a Samsung TV plays the same movies as a Sony TV. You don't differentiate a TV by making some content exclusive because that defeats the purpose of the market. You differentiate based off what the platform can do which is different.

The PC is a unique platform because the controls are completely different and you can get incredible performance out of the package and it has the openness of the platform/internet as a massive strength. The Wii is completely different because the base controls are something which no other console shares or if they do share they will at best be for the lifespan of the Wii marginal addons. The Xbox 360 and PS3 ARE NOT differentiated significantly by what they can do. They are fundamentally almost identical in almost all relevant functional ways. The controls are near identical and the case for exclusives between the two platforms are at best corner cases or proprietary software.

 



Tease.