RolStoppable said:
It's not really about Nintendo, so we can leave them out. The important statement is that the PS brand doesn't have as many exclusives as it used to have. I don't think this can be disputed when one thinks back to the PS1 and PS2 eras. I've visited VGC for over a decade now and ten years ago things were different for the PS fanbase. The Xbox camp argued that console exclusives should count the same as exclusives, but this always led to conflict with the PS and Nintendo fanbase because a console exclusive really isn't on the same level as an exclusive. At one point it got so bad that the mod team (I believe it was in early 2008) officially declared (and stickied the thread) that console exclusives are prohibited from being listed as exclusives; there were lots of list wars back then, much more than nowadays. As the generation went on, it became more and more common that games became multiplatform and by the time the PS4 launched, the PS fanbase was ready to embrace the term console exclusive because actual exclusives were scarce. Lists needed to be padded which is the same motivation that the Xbox fanbase had several years before. Once a controversial subject moves from being argued in favor of by a minority to being argued in favor of by the majority of the community, it becomes a common and acceptable practice. Of course, a lot of the conflict between console exclusive and exclusive remains, because PS and Xbox combine only for a slight majority while the Nintendo and PC camps are a big minority. |
Sony led Microsoft and nintnedo in ip creation last gen to the point where they said they would have to cut back. They shouldn't be grouped with Microsoft. Sony is just where Nintendo used to be in the early 90s which is where the wealth of multiplatform and exclusives. Microsoft is the only anomaly in gaming in general when it comes to exclusives
