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ethomaz on 03 June 2011

Everyone cares about exclusives.

Sony's first party titles say HELLO!!!



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Naum on 03 June 2011

Pretty hard not to care about exclusive games when Nintendo games comes to mind



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selnor on 03 June 2011
786_ali said:

Most of the best games each generation are exclusives. You don't see many multiplat games getting higher metacritic scores than exclusives. Generally multiplats are games meant to make money, whereas exclusive focus more on the quality and are much more memorable.

Mass Effect?

Elder Scrolls?

Portal?

COD?

Bioshock?

MGS?

Theres quite a few franchises top flight this gen.



ethomaz on 03 June 2011
selnor said:
786_ali said:

Most of the best games each generation are exclusives. You don't see many multiplat games getting higher metacritic scores than exclusives. Generally multiplats are games meant to make money, whereas exclusive focus more on the quality and are much more memorable.

Mass Effect?

Elder Scrolls?

Portal?

COD?

Bioshock?

MGS?

Theres quite a few franchises top flight this gen.

There are a lot amazing multi games but what you say about Halo, Gears, Alan Wake, Forza, etc.

Excluisves rules.

PS. And MGS is exclusive, no?



SvennoJ on 03 June 2011

As long as devs optimize the game for each system then it doesn't matter.

However that almost never happens. Sure they reach parity but then they don't take advantage of all the strengths of each system.



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ethomaz on 03 June 2011
SvennoJ said:

As long as devs optimize the game for each system then it doesn't matter.

However that almost never happens. Sure they reach parity but then they don't take advantage of all the strengths of each system.

No. That's matter because the exclusive are the identity of a console.

Without exclusives PS3 = 360 = Wii = Everything else.

Without them why have multiple consoles on the market?



deskpro2k3 on 03 June 2011

As long as there is multiplats there will be compromises. So, yes I like my exclusives to be all it can be.



d21lewis on 03 June 2011
CGI-Quality said:
d21lewis said:

That's a hell of a list, Aldro.  Very diverse, too. For a certain audience, it's very impressive.  Some people may even be jealous.  But for a majority of people, it doesn't matter if these games were exclusive, multi-plat, first party, or third party.  They're just games that they can buy.  And in all honesty, even though these games are good (sometimes, GREAT!), they aren't the ones people end up buying or caring about.

As far as the PS3 is concerned, things like free online, Blu Ray, pricing, and media options probably do more as far as selling the system than any of the games on that list.  Exclusives are a small piece of a much bigger pie.

I have to agree in spots and disagree [heavily] in others. Exclusives always been the bread and butter of any console. In fact, every market leader won based mainly on that. Now things are a little different this gen - extra media capabilities are becoming nearly as important, but this gen's market leader proves the old idea that exclusives will play the largest role in major success. It would not be where it is today without suff like Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Play, and New Super Mario Bros Wii.

The pie is big, yes, but exclusives are still the biggest [and most important] part of it. It's very simple; without exclusives, we have no need for multiple consoles. It's not just a matter of e-peen waiving, but a condition of individuality. Microsoft knew this coming into the gen, which is why the PS3 shares 75-80% of it's library with the 360, and thus why it couldn't truly take off - people for a long time didn't see much of a difference between the two, so LIVE & price became determining factors [and are "exclusives" to the 360 in their own meaningful way].

End of the day, all BS aside, exclusives have, do, and will continue to matter in the most vital ways in console gaming. If they don't, we have no need for a multiconsole industry and should just put all of our games into a universal one * shutters at that idea *

Kid just kicked me off the computer! Now I' on my phone.....

Times, they are a'changin.  The thread didn't ask if exclusives used to matter.  It asked if they still mattered.  To a degree, they do--just not as much as they used to.  I'm sure the PS3's inability to gain footing early on was caused by other problems and not just exclusives.  Even now, the list of PS3 exclusives is HUGE.  It's still selling well below the 360 in the USA and beating it by just a few thousand when the worldwide totals come in.  And make a list of the top 50 games based on sales anda seperate list based on reviews (this gen, only).  I don't know the results but I'm willing to bet that (with the exception of Nintendo titles), exclusives don't have the impact we like to think they do.

As for this gen's leader, they were last gens loser.  Did Nintendo's exclusives quality jump that much?  Or maybe it was something extra (hint: rhymes with "lotion fun-trolls) had something to do with it.  I'll elaborate when I 



d21lewis on 03 June 2011

^^damn you cell phone!



Lostplanet22 on 03 June 2011

Yes I care because most exclusives can do more with a console than an multiplatfor game;...Time spent on making a game playable for more consoles is in my book wasted effort that they could have spend to make the game better.  Is it really a surprise that some of the best game on an console are exclusives?