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

[Barkley]

vivster said:

Barkley said:

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.

Yes but this thread is about sony allowing cross platform with Xbox being a bad decision. A big selling point for consoles is what console your friends own so you can play multiplayer together, Sony has this edge because it has a huge lead in marketshare, going cross platform loses this edge. I'm not saying consoles without exclusives are irrelevant.

 

Edit: Ok looks like I didn't read the OP propperly, I don't completely agree with OP's reasoning. I think it's a bad decision just because it gives people who's friends all own an Playstation the option to buy an Xbox.