Kazus said:
Pretty much this. They matter if you're Nintendo whose top 10 selling titles are 85% exclusives. However, it doesn't matter when you're like Sony or (in some cases) Microsoft who don't need as many exclusives [as Nintendo] to still push a good amount of consoles and not trail that far behind in the long run. Back in the ol' days, exclusives literally made your decision to buy a console important because you would miss out on A LOT of good games that were exclusive versus now when you get pretty much most big releases of the year on PS3 and Xbox 360. You're only left out in the dust if you have a Wii. |
I'm a Nintendo fan as well as Sony fan. I enjoy them both and believe they can both coexist because they offer different things.
That being said Nintendo fans have a really bad habbit of thinking that only their exlcusives are important. Nintendo does have massive success with their IPs, especially so because Nintendo lacks 3rd party support. Exclusives are still important for the other two though, especially Sony.
If exclusives didn't matter I would probably have a 360 as most of my friends do.
