Why are 3rd party exclusive deals suddenly a great thing now?

[Mr Puggsly]

ZODIARKrebirth said:
This is simple, becauase it always was a big deal. Already in the era snes, 3rd party games were a big deal and important for a big sucess. After the ps2 era, in my opinion sony made a big mistake, because of there big domination on the hardware front, they thought they could it do without, even worse the made an very bad price for the ps3...but with the ps4 i think have gone back to the roots and they know that 3rd party games are very important to have exclusive

Well PS1 received many exclusives simply because Saturn was a failure and N64 carts were too expensive. PS1 just became the platform developers focused on by default. Granted Sony moneyhatted some notable titles.

For PS2 era, Xbox and Gamecube seemed to do a pretty good job at moving 3rd party software inspite of having a fraction of the userbase. So they got support but Sony still had many major exclusives.

With PS3... Sony fucked up. They lost much of their usebase and there was little reason for 3rd parties to stick with them. Also, Sony wanted to push 1st party instead of throwing money at 3rd like MS was doing. But making good games is hard so Sony has developed dependence on 3rd parties again.