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Cerebralbore101 on 14 May 2020
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RolStoppable said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Non-exclusivity is definitely a stupid thing. I think Sony will eventually have all their games coming to PC three years from each game's PS5 launch. So if we get GoW2 in 2021, then it comes to PC in 2024. Horizon 2 in 2022, goes to PC in 2025, and so on, and so forth. But that will take some time for them to implement, and for consumers to figure out. That also goes against your idea that exclusives just plain don't matter. As far as Sony wanting to make PSN more like Gamepass, though that's a good thing. Gamepass doesn't really have the numbers to back up the idea that it's a killer-app, but that doesn't mean that Sony shouldn't copy it.

It's more likely that PS5 games will eventually have simultaneous launches on PC, just like you should expect PS Now to match Microsoft's day and date releases for Game Pass eventually. Sony is bound to provide more clarity on these two points once they present their full strategy for the PS5. I doubt that Sony will stick with the current status quo, because the two logical options for them were either to do their own thing and keep their first party games on the PS5 or try to match what Microsoft offers. Any inbetween thing comes across as directionless.

I never said that exclusives don't matter. If you recall my post, I said something along the lines of if exclusives didn't matter, then I wouldn't bother to put them on the list of importance at all.

Well that's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one. Do countries need to either be Laissez faire capitalism, or full blown Communism? Does somebody need to either be a full blown born again Christian, or a Dawkins Level Atheist? 

All Sony needs to do is match the 3rd party library of Gamepass on PSN, and allow for game downloading, running off local hardware. 

Okay, then you think exclusives matter, but not by much. I think Wii U would have had sales similar to 3DO or Jaguar without Nintendo's exclusives.