Third Party Deals, It's Great... But not for Gamers!

[artur-fernand]

Skidmore said:

artur-fernand said:
With all due respect, that's a pretty stupid complaint. Yes, there are games you can't play unless you buy other consoles, as it has ALWAYS been. So how does this "harm" us?

It's not a complaint, since I can't complaint for something that is great from a business perspective, and companies are not a church.

I just pointing out that this is getting more and more frequent, and this is really bad for us. When you have massive titles like Street Fighter and Tomb Raider in the mix, you now that things are taking new proportions.

More frequent? It's far less frequent than during the PS1/PS2 era. Street FIghter and Tomb Raider are isolate examples. Hell, just look at Metal Gear and Final Fantasy, both are multiplataform now.

Ironically enough, it's thanks to these third-party deals that the PS1 was able to massacrate the competition like it did (FFVII, yes).

And then they did the same with PS2's GTA 3.