I buy Nintendo consoles for the exclusives. Metroid/Zelda/Smash/3D Mario/Mario Kart, those 5 games alone are worth getting a $200 console for and the other Nintendo series like DK/Star Fox/F-Zero/Pikmin/Kirby make it bettetvplus Nintendo usually gets some killer 3rd party exclusives as well like MH Tri/Viewtiful Joe/Symphonia/RE Zero/REmake.
When it came to deciding whether to get PS3 or 360 it also came down to exclusives. They share 90% of the same 3rd party games so either one would work for those and I dont play online (prefer local mp much better) so Live wasnt a selling point and became a paywall for Netfix. Games like GoW/Infamous/Uncharted appealed to me more than Halo/Gears/Fable so I chose PS3.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
