| twintail said: I feel the my point that you can't have it all for a variety of different products/ services still stands. Something can only be anti-consumer if a product/ service benefits the company at the expense of the consumer of said product/ service. Because Mario only being on Switch, Halo only being on X1 and God of War being only on PS4 are, in themselves, also examples of software that actually benefits the user of those particular consoles. that said, you do agree that 1st party software is an exception and that it is really 3rd party content that falls under this. To a point, I don't disagree. But it also requires context. This means that specific exclusives can be anti-consumer. Tome Raider is a possible example of this: MS having exclusivity (which became timed) could have benefited SE at the expense of their larger PS userbase. SF5 also ignores the previous X360 userbase, but are reports that they weren't going to fund it true? Is FF7 remake anti-consumer even though it's a remake of a previously PS1 exclusive title? These can be argued, but they also represent a title by title situation. So yes, I agree that exclusives can be anti-consumer, but I disagree that exclusives as a concept is, because without knowledge into how these exclusives came about we can't judge that consumers are being purposely left out. |
The sole purpose of hardware from a brand creates exclusives and exclusive deals which is what breeds anti-consumer practices. These companies will do anything to make you buy into there platform regardless if you want to or not.
FF7 is not made or own by Sony, behind the scenes is a company deal to make it console exclusive even through the OG FF7 is also on PC, Switch and Xbox. The entire Remake is anti-consumer because Sony is stopping it from appearing on other devices. Understandable if Sony owned or made the game but they don't and the game is locked from Nintendo and Xbox users.
The throught behind Consoles is anti-consumer because there designed to lock players in and make players spend more money. We just accepted it since its been a going practice for decades however the movie industry has been doing it right, doesn't matter if you own a Samsung, Sony or Panasonic Blu-Ray player, they will read the same Blu-Ray disks. What sells the Device is based on the quality and Value of the device not locking in movie exclusives to sell the hardware.
