Opinion: Is Microsoft Running Out Of Exclusives?

[Normchacho]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

Normchacho said:

Wait? Are you implying that the entire strength of consoles exlusive lineup rests on this mans poor, mortal shoulders? Like...if he doesn't personally enjoy, or have played every single one of those games, then they don't count?

Why, on earth would we meassure libraries like that? So, if a game hasn't been in my Playstation, and someone asks me about what exclusives there are for the PS4, I have to leave that game out?

That's exactly what I'm implying. Why should they count, if he doesn't like them?

Why would we measure libraries like that? Well, because how else would you measure them? Simply by the fact they exist? According to arbitrary numbers assigned by strangers?

People are welcome to list off exclusives to their hearts' content. But if someone is going to use that list as ammunition in a console war, I expect them to be able to defend it. And there's no way to defend a game unless one has played it.

Because they don't stop exsisting just because he personally hasn't played them.

A list of games is just that, a list of games. It's a reference for the reader.

If someone was making a list of war movies made between 1970 and 2010, they wouldn't leave off movies that they hadn't seen. Because then it would be an incomplete list.

 

As for using Metacritic scores in the list, it's simply an easy way to show a critical concensus. It works in this context because we all see a Metacritic score from the same perspective. An 85 is higher than an 80 no matter who is looking at it.

 

Now, if we were having long, scholarly debates of each consoles library and going through each game and talking about their merits and issues. Then yes. You're going to want to have played all of the games in question, and have very defined beliefs about each of them.

But, for someone making  a very rhetorical list of a consoles exlcusives and their critical standing, none of that matters.