PlayStation Experience 2015 Thread - It's over.

[Ali_16x]

Tachikoma said:

Ali_16x said:

No, third party exclusives have also been around since, forever too. Explain to me how it's different for a person who wants to play a game, whether it's a 1st party or 3rd party, how would it be different? There is absolutely no reason to think a 1st party exclusive would be different from a 3rd party exclusive.

Exclusives are in almost every industry. They are hardly anti-consumer. 

Are you attempt to imply that GTAV would still have sold just as much as it did on one platform?, third party games sell better on multiple platforms because it means people with a single console have the option to buy it. 

Third party exclusives only happen for two reasons:

1) Developer/publisher does not have the manpower/money/time to develop for multiple systems.
2) A platform holder has brokered a deal to secure the exclusivity, the reason for doing so is to make their platform the only option if someone wishes to play that game, thus, limiting it's audience by force.

If a third party game goes exclusive and the sales don't do too well, it can, and has multiple times in the past, resulted in the company that made it going out of business, where as releasing the same game multi-platform requires a larger investment but a much larger return.

It's really that simple.

Why are you talking about sales? What do you sales have to do with the consumer? The sales of a game matter to the developer/comapny so it's not anti-consumer in the slightest sense. 

No, the biggest reason why 3rd party exclusives happen is so consumers buy their consoles, literally. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. Companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo fund/buy these games that don't have manpower/money/time in the belieft that they will sell consoles. They wouldn't be funding these games if they believed they wouldn't sell consoles. Microsoft funded Titanfall for one reason, they believed it would sell Xbox Ones, if they didn't believe it, they wouldn't have funded it.

When most people say 3rd party exclusives are anti-consumer, they say it because they have to buy another console. And as a I said, 3rd party exclusives exsist so people buy their consoles.  What you are talking about, comapnies going out of business, that has nothing to do with the consumer, if anything 3rd party exclusives are anti-developer but they're not because these developers themselves decide to go exclusive.

I don't think anything you talked about in this post is anti-consumer.