| KylieDog said:
You seem to misunderstood the definition you quoted also given the way you post it, even though it uses a business example of the use. |
No, the definition is pretty clear. "Limited to the object or objects designated."
It does seem like most other dictionaries disagree with that though, so I'll end the discussion by saying I was wrong, and when we refer to platform exclusivity, an exclusive can only appear on one platform.
But by your own definition, we still have "nonsense"-examples as
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Adj 3. Not divided or shared with others: exclusive publishing rights.
n
2. An exclusive right or privilege, as to market a product.
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makes it clear that "exclusive" can refer to things like someone having exclusive publishing rights. That means we can group games according to which publishers they're exclusive to, and L.A. Noire is a Rockstar exclusive. Sony, Nintendo and Rockstar exclusives are all perfectly valid, and you just proved them. 
