And who was it that said exclusives were not important?

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I don’t know if anyone ever saying they were “not important”. Some people simply disagree with how important they are.

There does exist a middle ground where exclusives can be important, but also not nearly as big a deal as some here make it out to be. I mean, you didn’t really hear much talk about it until 2017, when Sony finally had a huge exclusive year and Microsoft didn’t. Before that, with the PS4 library mostly pretty meh, all the talk was about power. Of course, now that the Scorpio exists, power is irrelevant.

Of course, you can flip this and say superior performance was important when 360 versions of games ran better than PS3. A large portion of gamers here would “never ever pay for online!!!” .... until they did. How Amazon was super reliable and fail proof, until Switch started dominating it, now it’s “biased towards Switch sales”. How downloadable games were great when XBLA was kicking ass, and then irrelevant when PS4 was dominating that area. Also how XBLA games were irrelevant and “not real games”, until PS4 started getting them and then they were monumental.

Basically what I am saying is people will say dumb shit when it suits their arguments. Are exclusives a big deal? If they’re good, of course. Are they the defining reason PS4 outsells Xbone? No. Just look at sales charts for games.