I hope Sony does not listen to Microsoft call for open online gaming

[vivster]

Barkley said:

vivster said:
Of course opening up their platform is bad. Bad for fanboys that is. How would they ever survive without being able to list exclusives and count how many consoles it sold more than the next competitor. The fact that Sony makes the vast majority of their money with Software instead of hardware is irrelevant.

Yes but they need to sell hardware to get the bulk of that money, Third Party software on their closed platform and PS+ Subcriptions.

Exclusives are their to draw people to the system, the bulk of the money is made from third party and subscriptions. Losing the edge of people buying there console because their friends have it (because it is the best selling and market leader hardware) is a bad move.

The fallacy here is that people are not simply buying consoles because exclusives. They buy it first because they aren't PCs and only then decide which of the console to get by exclusives. Believe me when I say that if there were no exclsuive games on consoles, they would still sell a lot.

Just listen to any console peasant rant on why consoles are superior and you will see that exclusives are just one point of many.