Why is Titanfall Considered a Big Exclusive for XB1 but FFXIV not for PS4?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

kupomogli said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

it would be /thread except for the fact. multiconsole and port are semantically the same thing, not to mention FFXIV is down ported from GLORIOUS PC MASTER RACE and has near-visual parity with it, while Titan Fall doesn't hit 1080, (developed on "Modified" Source Engine so its likely it started development on the 360) was upported to PC, hence the obvious lack of optimization, would cost full price if not given away for free, and cost a live subscription anyway.

Ports are multiconsole titles, but don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about and spin the sentence because I'm not using the technical terms.

The technical term of multiconsole is a game that's on more than one console.  Although you don't hear people calling games from different generations that are later ported over to a system a multiconsole release?  They're called ports.  A multiconsole release is a release that's comes out at the same time or they were developed together so it's a close proximity of time.   Even though being released later, games like Titanfall for the 360 and Watch Dogs for the Wii U are multiconsole rather than ports because they were being developed for release along with the other versions.

The technical term of a port is a game that's developed after the it was already developed for a lead console.  Many multiconsole releases are ports, developed for one console first and ported over to the other.  However the word port is commonly used for a game that is ported from one console to another after the game has already been developed and released.

T_T I just woke up from being sick so pardon my lack of usual patience and understanding but...multiconsole is not a technical term, you literally just made it up to fit the circumstances. What you are looking for is multi-platform. 360 Titan Fall and Watch_dogs are ports, down ports because they come from a higher generation of console. However, since most games are developed on PC and developed on consoles, most games are generally down ports.

For example, Crysis 3 is a down port on consoles. 

Because Titan Fall was finalized on the XB1 and ported to PC, it was upported, hence the lack of opptimization, not to mention the deliberate attempts to stymie the pc release such as uncompressed audio files.

So once again I reiterate, the only differences between Titan Fall and FFXIV are genre, scale, and marketting.

None of this useless port buisness, they are both multi-platform. They have the same Metacritic, etc...