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Rainbird on 15 May 2011
KylieDog said:

Nothing is excluive then.

Or everything is exclusive, you just have to make the right comparison.

Either way, what you're saying is that the term "exclusive" should be redefined, so when applied to videogames it actually means "exclusive to one platform". But why not just say that it's exclusive to one platform, rather than redefine the existing word? Surely redefining the word causes more confusion, which is why we're having this discussion in the first place.



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Carl on 15 May 2011

A game on multiple platforms is a multiplat.

A multiplat isn't an exclusive.

 

That's all I need to say about this thread.



                            

Rainbird on 15 May 2011
Carl2291 said:

A multiplat isn't an exclusive.

You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.

Do you want to read the discussion, or should I just sum it up for you?



Carl on 15 May 2011
Rainbird said:
Carl2291 said:

A multiplat isn't an exclusive.

You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.

Do you want to read the discussion, or should I just sum it up for you?

I read it, disagreed with a whole lot of it, and summed up what a Multiplat was.

A game on multiple platforms is a multiplat.



                            

voty2000 on 15 May 2011

People will use whatever definition will help their argument.



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Ali-Kharazi on 15 May 2011

I can say "x" game is exclusive to "y" platform if the only way I can play "x" is on "y". Emulator's don't count.

Ex.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is PS3 exclusive.
Mass Effect 1 is not Xbox 360 exclusive.



Rainbird on 15 May 2011
KylieDog said:

You seem to misunderstood the definition you quoted also given the way you post it, even though it uses a business example of the use.

No, the definition is pretty clear. "Limited to the object or objects designated."

It does seem like most other dictionaries disagree with that though, so I'll end the discussion by saying I was wrong, and when we refer to platform exclusivity, an exclusive can only appear on one platform.

But by your own definition, we still have "nonsense"-examples as

Adj

3. Not divided or shared with others: exclusive publishing rights.
n
2. An exclusive right or privilege, as to market a product.

makes it clear that "exclusive" can refer to things like someone having exclusive publishing rights. That means we can group games according to which publishers they're exclusive to, and L.A. Noire is a Rockstar exclusive. Sony, Nintendo and Rockstar exclusives are all perfectly valid, and you just proved them.



sweetoothj on 15 May 2011

Actually defintion of exclusive is to exclude everything else. So games like left 4 dead is not exclusive to 360 or pc because it didnt exclude one another. These are facts.



Jdevil3 on 15 May 2011
Rainbird said:
KylieDog said:

You seem to misunderstood the definition you quoted also given the way you post it, even though it uses a business example of the use.

No, the definition is pretty clear. "Limited to the object or objects designated."

It does seem like most other dictionaries disagree with that though, so I'll end the discussion by saying I was wrong, and when we refer to platform exclusivity, an exclusive can only appear on one platform.

But by your own definition, we still have "nonsense"-examples as

Adj

3. Not divided or shared with others: exclusive publishing rights.
n
2. An exclusive right or privilege, as to market a product.

makes it clear that "exclusive" can refer to things like someone having exclusive publishing rights. That means we can group games according to which publishers they're exclusive to, and L.A. Noire is a Rockstar exclusive. Sony, Nintendo and Rockstar exclusives are all perfectly valid, and you just proved them.


Wait... so by that definition, even Call of Duty MW2 is an exclusive (a PC/PS3/Xbox 360 exclusive) and FIFA Soccer 11 is a PS3/Xbox 360/Wii/PSP/DS/PC/PS2 exclusive?

 

Then what is a multiplatform? xD



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