| BMaker11 said: To hell with 3rd party games being multiplat so that "more people can play the game". There's a business side to gaming. And making games exclusive is a part of that. It doesn't "screw over X million fans". It helps make your product better. |
How exactly get the games better by arbitrary exclusivity?
| BMaker11 said: Nobody complained about games being exclusive during the SNES/Genesis days. Nobody complained about games being exclusive to PS1 and PS2. It wasn't until 360 blew up and made Xbox a competitive brand that people were like "hey, what about us?". |
Nostalgic distortion field? Of course people complained back then when 3rd party games went exclusive for... reasons. The only difference was that not so many console owners had access to the internet.
| BMaker11 said: A console could have 200 million users, but so what if a game is exclusive to the console with 10 million. Deals were made to make that 10 million console more attractive so that IT CAN SELL MORE! Ridiculous, I know. |
Do you really think that games like GTA (IV, V, VI), Call of Duty, Diablo 3, Assassin's Creed, The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect and many more would have sold more with going/staying exclusive on only one platform? Unless 3rd party developers/publishers get payed for (timed) exclusivity, they choose multiplatform... I wonder, why?
