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Andrespetmonkey said:
oni-link said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Why in the world would you want them to be exclusive and not on as many platforms as possible?


Best OBVIOUS answer: Because exclusives help sell hardware especially during qthe systems early years.  Since I am a huge Nintendo fan, I would love them to sell as many hardware as possible in order to insure continous support of the platform.

Still don't see why you'd want that. It's the first-party exclusives that sell Ninty platforms, it doesn't need to worry about having third party exclusives. The only third party exclusives that'd have huge impacts on sales will never be exclusive to the Wii U, or any other system imo.

So my answer to the question is none, but I don't want them to be exclusive to the other platforms either because no system needs third-party exclusives to survive and thrive so I see no real benefit to the consumer.

Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, DragonQuest and Kingdom Hearts are potential 3rd party exclusives that would push system sales especially in Japan.  I know it wouldn't be fair to the other 2 systems, since Nintendo's 1st party titles push hardware by themselves.  However, Nintendo does need to recapture the core and the best way to do this is acquiring 3rd party titles that appeal to the core.