am i insane? of course they wouldnt. now you be honest with me here, is the ONLY reason the PS1 and PS2 a success is because third party exclusives like zero claimed?

no, to be honest i thought he said it was the "main" reason because it is, obviously there are other factors like cheap CD/DVD playabillity, etc.

"said the company who only got the sucess of ps and ps2 thanks to many third party exclusives".

his exact words. 

like i said, i thought he said it was the main reason. so yeah i made a mistake. sorry

Anyone else rather happy that people are still coming into this thread and posting comments about first-party exclusives?  That, to me, is bloody awesome.  Totally ridiculous, sure, but that's where the fun comes in.

On topic, it sounds like his message is, "we won't force you to be exclusives," which I'm sure makes the developers very happy.  The restrictive policies of last gen were bad for small developers.

Sony gained alot of support because Nintendo treated 3Rd parties like crap at the time and made poor choices. Sony became developer friendly company. Also, you guys are talking about something from over 13years ago. It made sense for developers to make exclusives during that period when one system sold 70% of the market. He is obviously talking about the current market that everyone pretty much has an equal market share.

To your questions, yes i do.

One system = less investment required for the consumer. Sales would be the same, except all piled up on one system. Pretty similar to what we had with the PS2 era. When you have one system and all games come out for it, its better for everyone. The market isnt fractured and theres no need to invest on multiple ports of the same game. So, yes, i think its beneficial and less risky for all parties involved.

The only drawback is that it leads to monopolist practices.

Anyways he is talking about indies so this whole thing is taken out of context. For indies, yes its good to be in as many systems as possible to gain exposure.

Since those games' exclusivities (such as they are, because I think they're all on or coming to PC as well) don't seem to be the result of any deals with Sony but the simple fact that Sony allows self-publishing and Microsoft doesn't, I don't think he has forgotten that. The only deal we know of is Jonathan Blow signing a six month console exclusivity deal for The Witness to be a part of the PS4 launch announcement, and he already said that was basically a formality because he doesn't have the manpower to do an Xbone port yet anyway.

I took his post to mean they only got the level of success that they did by having the exlusives.  Perhaps you were receiving it too literally.  I guess we'll never know.

Lol at idioticy