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LurkerJ on 28 August 2017
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zero129 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Most companies will break their budget just to get a game good enough to move systems. So when you someone isn't buying both the game *and* the console in order to play an exclusive they are still hurting the business of making games. 

I follow the path of "Exclusives are anti consumer" . I fully believe that if giving the option most developers would love to have their game on as many platforms as possible being played by as many people as possible. Exclusives are just something fans like to brag about as a dick sizing contest.

Nintendo built their IPs over decades. They established their first party studios from scratch, they always make sure the final product is meeting certain standards, just look at how long it took them to give us Zelda: BoTW. For them to use the strength of their IPs to sell their hardware isn't "anti-consumer". 

Those developers you speak of are grateful someone is taking a risk on their ideas and funding their projects. The concept behind some first party IPs, like Splatoon, wouldn't have caught EA or other third party publishers' attention, because they simply aren't in the business to sell hardware, and for the most part, rehashing whatever popular these days is simply "good enough". If Nintendo was a third party publisher, they would've mostly played it safe and we wouldn't have something like Splatoon or Wii Sports, but the need to sell hardware comes with the obligation of making attractive new IPs. You can't separate the two, look at the Vita and recent Xbox numbers and tell me how they're doing without notable exclusives. It's not unreasonable to say that hardware manufacturers' first party studios play a big role in innovating and diversifying the types of games we play, and that's beneficial to consumers, not harmful.

If you wanna emulate games and skip buying the hardware these games are supposed to sell, that's fine by me, but don't come up with bs excuses like "EXCLUSIVES ARE ANTI CONSUMER", because you come off as an entitled individual with no understanding of how businesses actually works, you're better than that, or you're supposed to be if you are a vgc regular. 

I won't judge you for emulating or even pirating games, but I will judge if you are coming up with stupid justifications for your choices.