My one issue with the "exclusives" argument

[sales2099]

Torillian said:

sales2099 said:

I don't believe sticking to the current gen is arbitrary. Its just a way to keep things simple and current at the same time, while keeping it 1 vs 1 console.

But doing that is a whole other matter. Just the idea of lisiting games on one and not the other is problematic enough as we can see.

I would assume some would say that doing exclusive vs. exclusive would be a way to keep things simple as well.  If all you want to do is look at the unique features of the two consoles then I don't think you can disregard older games available on the platform.

Well you can totally list games that are on one and not the other, but what's the difference between you saying "well those games aren't from this generation" as opposed to "well thoes games are on PC"  when all you want to do is compare the platform "one on one" as you say?

exclusive vs exclusive is simple too, but the difference is that it filters out current gen/recent releases, as opposed to filtering out games that aren't from the current generation.

I guess "time" would be the main reason, but again, its my own personal view to not count past gen games. What I do think should be universal, its expanding beyond typical exclusive lists when comparing the merits of 2 consoles.