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

[DigitalDevilSummoner]

I think because the obvious offender here is MS we are pretending to play nice. Of course it does.

 For 3rd party games the term "exclusive" itself is a bullshit marketing trick to hide the fact that the game you are buying is  essentially  not part of the company that made the proprietary gaming device, the console, but the product of a business deal concerning publishing rights.

 And I'm saying proprietary gaming device because that's the issue, the company that makes this locked piece of hardware has the duty to produce content on a steady basis. With 3rd party exclusives there's no guarantee for that and we all know it. MS bought the rights to a tone of games, for the 360 when it was beneficent for THEM followed by a 3 year drought.

In fact, saying "exclusive" for a 1st party game is redundant. Mario and Uncharted games are not JUST exclusives, they are Nintendo and Sony games respectively. For me that's the whole reason of buying a console, otherwise I would just game on the PC. Each platform has its own personality because of the games developed by 1st party companies.

As opposed to the PCs, consoles are an investment. You expect them to be worthy even after years when the hardware itself is severely outdated exactly because they have dedicated, customized (thematically) and optimized (technically) software. When it comes to MS, they just buy the rights to the flavor of the month, they should buy the talent instead because that's when I know my investment in their console is a good choice.

 You cannot make proprietary hardware without proprietary software.