Are console exclusives good for the industry? For the consumer?

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Azzanation said:

curl-6 said:

It's not about money, it's about resources, manhours primarily. Focusing all your resources on one version means that version gets more time and attention.

"But some exclusives have bugs" is once again the "but if there are black haired women in the world why is that woman over there red headed?" If the same game was multiplat, they'd likely be even more bugs cos devs would have less time to squash them with all the extra work.

The resources dont change, they just dont spend more, to have it on other platforms.

It all comes down to the developers.

We see just as many polished 3rd party titles as 1st party titles. The games themselves dont magically get better because of a single focus platform narrative. If that was true then no 1st party game would have issues. But plenty do. 

Square released Forspoken, a game with horrible optimisation on 1 platform, why? It had all the resources and focus of one platform.

Once again, Forepoken would likely have been worse on multiple platforms, cos they would have had less time to optimize the PS5 version. Any exclusive with issues would have likely have only more issues if it was multiplat.

If your resources are 100, you can invest all 100% in one version, or divide it say 5 ways across 5 platforms so each gets 20%.

And actually no, Nintendo and Sony first party exclusives for instance are far better than most multiplatform titles.