The console makers have found out it is better to sell one game to people who buy between 1 and 4 titles per year or even increase the numbers of titles they buy than to sell 2 or more games to people who buy 5-15 titles a year. Cue Nintendo for the former and Sony for the latter, Nintendo of course being the more successful at moving units of the two given the fact that the thick edge of the wedge is a much better side of the market to work on. This is the market reality and here what you prefer doesn't really factor into anything.

That would've been very odd of Microsoft to even think that they could do that, forgetting who actually created Donkey Kong, plus those were titles strictly developed by Rare with no publishing rights (though while under contract they retained certain rights to DK's likeness, like creating 3D models for him and such)

I have yet to see any Kinect software that warrants its purchase. The current software is pretty weak imo, although it is still early. How can you compare modern rare to the past rare? Past Rare>>>>>>>>> Modern Rare. Microsoft has turned a talented developer into a decent or even mediocre one. DKC1, DKC2, DKC 3, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark>>>> anything they have done with Microsoft. They used to make cool games, not features for consoles. About MS making the most money, not really a big shocker there.

You will find all the best devs from bioware taking the money and running, the best don't assosciate themselves with Microsoft. It's a dev thing believe me ;)

Wtf is your problem with MS, you need to really get over it, same as libeulle

No problem on the length, so long as the content is justifying it. Anyway im responding on IE because Firefox crashes too much and I dislike Google for percieved privacy infringement.

Anyway where we differ here is that I see the word 'exclusive' as only part of the story. What you are really looking for is 'exclusive value' or 'exclusive experiences' differentiating between different consoles. For instance Gears of War was the first real current generation blockbuster on the HD consoles, in 2006 that represented a real exclusive experience you couldn't find anywhere else. In 2008 when Gears of War 2 was released that exclusive value had diminished so at that point whether Gears of War was exclusive or not didn't matter so much because as game libraries develop the value of exclusives diminish because the extra value they offer which isn't matched on other consoles is diminished or removed completely.

Where this generation is different to other generations is that the exclusive experiences aren't limited to just the games. In the last generation all the consoles were pretty much the same and the only differentiation was really provided by the games themselves. In this generation you real differences in the systems themselves especially now that Kinect and Move are out. So without the games to differentiate the systems as much the systems still differentiate themselves by the actual physical interfaces, operating systems and online networks. There is no danger in having fewer exclusives because the systems have differentiated themselves to a greater degree than they have in the past couple of generations in spite of the fact that everything is multiplatform with fewer exceptions.

As for fanboys and general riff raff behaviour, well, you'll probably find that the closer peoples values are the more they tend to act out between each other because they feel they are in more direct competition. You'll probably find that the Move / Kinect fans will eventually ignore each other because the target market for the two interfaces are completely different. Had Move and Kinect been identical you'd have probably found that there would be more arguments and fighting because the systems were targeting the same customers and had similar values.

So do I think exclusives are worth it? Well not so much, however whenever a console can bring true exclusive value then thats a good thing. I don't think for instance that Microsoft buying Bioware and subsequently denying people the ability to play a fantastic game like Mass Effect would solve anything because it seriously wouldn't add that much value to the console, the money would be better spent on true improvements to Xbox or Xbox Live instead because that improves the experience of Xbox 360 owners without denying Sony/Nintendo console owners the benefit of future games from Bioware.

I have yet to see any Kinect software that warrants its purchase. The current software is pretty weak imo, although it is still early. How can you compare modern rare to the past rare? Past Rare>>>>>>>>> Modern Rare. Microsoft has turned a talented developer into a decent or even mediocre one. DKC1, DKC2, DKC 3, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark>>>> anything they have done with Microsoft. They used to make cool games, not features for consoles. About MS making the most money, not really a big shocker there.