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archer9234 on 14 September 2015
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mornelithe said:
zero129 said:
mornelithe said:

A made-up, non-thing.  Is my best understanding of the situation.

The is no movie exclusives today but back when the HD-DVD vs BluRay war was going on some movies was exclusive to one platform or the other and before that the was the betamax vs vhs.

Would need to see actual lists showing which movies were exclusive to Beta and which to VHS, likewise with Blu Ray vs HD-DVD, you're also referring to a format war, which is much, much, much different than a console hardware war.  The format war has far wider economic implications.  And one invariably dies, and never comes back except as the butt of jokes.

Not to metion a war that was started because the companies couldn't agree on a few areas. VS Nintendo, MS, Sony never even in a room designing systems in the first place.

Michelasso said:
zero129 said:
Zkuq said:
This question shows some extreme ignorance about technology.

If similar technological limitations existed for movies, people would complain. And conversely, if such technological limitations didn't exist with gaming, people would complain.

What limitions are they??. even now most engines work with multi systems making porting between X1-PS4-PC (Leaving out the wiiU) pretty easy as is.

If the was one standed platform id imagine this would be even easier.. Also at some point we are going to get to where everything is just powerful enough to run everything.

Yeah. So easy that Batman: Arkham Knight on PC, the most powerful platform (!!),  was a mess. 

And no, it isn't just a matter of power. Unless you're talking about emulation. But still one would need to run the original OS in the virtual machine, and that is illegal (other than requiring an hack).

Regarding the "exclusive movies" I think Netflix has already some exclusive programming. Tv shows and even some films.

I'd still argue that. Powers was also put on BD/DVD, as an example. It all depends on the licenses say. And things are put on other sources a lot quicker than a game do. Not to mention Netflix loses stuff, for the same reason. But you can still access these shows on billion devices. Not just one.