If exclusives Swapped would the same people hating be praising?

[Kresnik]

Oh, absolutely. It's just the nature of the website. The most obvious examples, as people have mentioned, are Destiny & Sunset Overdrive.

To use SO as an example; it's so weird seeing people who seem to have never had any interest in an Insomniac Games title before putting the game in their signature; or people who loved Ratchet & Clank seeming to shun it.

I'd actually fall into the latter category, although there is an explanation for that. I don't hate the title. In fact, I think it looks very, very good & if it were multi-platform I would buy it. But it's not; it's XBone exclusive. I have no desire to spend £429 on a console to play one game. So there's a limit to what excitement I can show for the title on the forums because it's not something I'm going to be able to play at any time in the near future.

It's a weird system. Exclusives gravitate people towards a console due to their preferences (and I do feel their is a big distinction between what the big 3 offer); and then once an owner of that system, a person will defend those exclusives more than other games. I also think that's why you see more news posted about exclusives than other titles. There is literally more news out there; because the big 3 know that exclusives are what's going to draw people in.