3rd Party Exclusives are hurting the industry

[JRPGfan]

Bandorr said:

What about third party games that suddenly become first party?

You want all third party games to go everywhere - but would you support a company to spend billions to buy out a publisher thus removing third part games?
What about games like VR? Ones that can't come to all platforms but not all platforms support them.
What about companies that aren't large enough to develop and port a game for all platforms?
What about "third party" games that never go to any other platforms like Pokemon?

What happens with a game like Baldurs gate 3 that had problem coming to Xbox S - and isn't on the Nintendo switch?

Also lets discuss what "released on all platforms, " means.

Is steam a platform? Epic? linux? Mac OS?  EA, or Ubisoft Launcher? Are you including mobile like IOS and Android?

How old a platform? PS4? Xbox 360? The 3ds?

If a platform (like say the Xbox one) refuses to release in Japan.. does Japan still have to release games for it?

Boooooooom! thats the smack down :)

Certain games, wouldn't be worth porting too.
Like some games are too demanding to be ported back to say a PS4 or a Switch, which would be too weak to run said games, and look/play decently.

rapsuperstar31 said:

If Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo don't fund some of these third party and indie games, they may not actually be made. The cost of making games is shooting through the roof and if they are given money to develop and help advertise the game it helps the game get released.

This was also one of my first thoughts reading the OP.