Opinion: Is Microsoft Running Out Of Exclusives?

[Normchacho]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

Normchacho said:

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.

I never said the games cease to be, or that they should be removed.

I'm making a very clear distinction about what is and what matters. 

Let's be real: no one making a list like the one that started this debate is doing so to provide edification for the reader. They're doing it as part of an anatomical measuring contest, to use an artful euphemism. But the list is useless on its own. It's simply a collection of numbers and letters. Unless those games are good or great, who cares?

The same goes for Metacritic, a poor measurement of quality. Yes, it shows the critical consensus. Again, a collection of numbers and letters that mean nothing if we disagree with them.

What matters and what doesn't is up to the reader, not the author (curator in this case).

I would agrue that it matters less if it's just the games he has played and enjoys. Because as it stands, that list is cumalitive. If you asked enough people what their favorite PS4 exclusives were, you'd get every game on that list eventually. Every game matters to somebody and it's silly to claim that games don't matter because the person who made this particular list doesn't personally have experience, or enjoy a certian game.

The reason it's important to include a baseline meassure of quality, is because if you don't it's the first thing that will be brought up. By including a metric you avoid that. Now, people will certainly argue the merits of that particular metric. But that's a different topic than the one at hand.

There's nothing wrong with people having conversations about their favorite games and how the compare to other peoples favorite games. But that's a totally seperate conversation.