I don't think it does, anymore.  Early in a console's life, gamers are thinking, "Yeah, I know I want that system but I'll wait for a game that I reeeaaaaally want."  When you get that one 10/10 game, all of the other 8/10 games are just gravy.  This late in generation, each console has a dozen 10/10 games.  I don't think there's any one game that will make gamers jump out and buy a console at this point. 

Of course there's always a few that heard so much about the Uncharted series and will jump in because of curiousity or that guy that wants to know what all the fuss is about Halo and buys the console and the latest entry but, are there really that many people jazzed for Gears, Uncharted, Killzone, Final Fantasy, etc that haven't already taken the plunge on previous entries in the series?  A console lives and dies by its library and each console already has a stellar library, now.  I just feel like features (Online, Blu Ray, Kinect, Motion Control, console power, value) are what's more important to the consumer at this point.

I ended both paragraphs with the word "point".  I need to expand my vocabulary, huh?

It does for me since i only own PS3. I want my purchase to go far and beyond what the other systems have. That includes having better games. Its what exclusives are all about and its what differentiates the consoles

That's kinda selfish, isn't it?  If you love a game, why wouldn't you want everybody you know to play it?  It's not like a game being mult-plat means you can't play it.  It's debateable if quality suffers when a game goes multi but I just don't believe that.

same here

^^^^maybe people dont want to wait another year for game thats already been in development way too long. Thats not selfish at all. At this point people have mostly made up their minds about consoles. I dont think there are that much 360ers out their that are holding their breath for this game. Most people who want this game have their PS3s ready. SE dont make the loyal fans wait even longer because you think you'll get a little bit more sales. Now if they want to pull a ME and just release on 360 at a later date everybody will be happy

Besides selfishness is underrated.

^^^ maybe, personally i dont want to wait. nothing against Xbox personally but buy a PS3 if you want the game so bad. If FF13 didnt take as long as it did i think it would have been better received. When you have a game in dev for THAT long it has to be great, not good but great. It was with KH BBS, i hope they learned that for Versus

If everyone wants to play it they should buy *in this case* a ps3. I doubt a game suffers much at all when it goes multiplat so i agree with you there. It might be selfish, but there are so many more multiplats then exclusives. They are what seperates the consoles and what drives the industry. I think that you are thinking *hey why noe everyone play every game* because you do own every console, but it would be much different if you only owned one. 

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what another year? um who said it would be another year that all depends on the developer and their skill to determine how long they take. so it would be around 5 years lol. but really you or anybody hear cant determine how long that would take or if they arent already doing it.