Does it matter if an exclusive is 1st party or not?

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Landguy said:

Xevross said:

1st part exclusives are great because the company funds the studio to work. 3rd parties are also good if they are funded by the company but if the console company pays to gain exclusivity then that is bad for the industry. One case is that money is being spent to prevent millions of people from experiencing a game (3rd parties) which is a really bad thing. The other case is money being spent to create games that otherwise wouldn't exist. Therefore, it does matter.

Moneyhatting...

To me, it doesn't really matter.  Most 3rd party games are sales failures for the most part.  THere are few COD, BF, GTA's out there.  So, when a 3rd party studio wants to ensure that they can make another game in the future,if they sell off for exclusivety works out real well.  Because it is paid console exclusive, it usually gets more ad dollars from that buyer.  In reality, it creates more content just the same.  Because the company probably covered their dev costs with the buyout, they can creat another game.  Had the game not been Moneyhatted, they might have went bankrupt.

It's also interesting when it's coming from a guy who has Crash Bandicoot as his avatar. Does anybody know why crash and spyro were never on N64? It's not like their wasn't a market for them there.