Aye, much of that is due to publishing issues, I believe.

This conversation however would more imply that X movie can only function on certain hardware, which is absolutely inaccurate.  Example simply doesn't fit.

There is no reason you would. The likes of say Paramount or Disney, don't make disc players. They make movies/shows. There is no reason. Even if you want to argue stop phsyical media. They don't restrict their stuff to only one digital platform.

...That's not what I was saying at all. I was just making a joke saying you could just do the whole porting job yourself. Which is obviously absurd. Hence the joke.

...That's not what I was saying at all. I was just making a joke saying you could just do the whole porting job yourself. Which is obviously absurd. Hence the joke.

As long as it has fixed hardware that doesn't change or get a successor in less than 5 years

Really should mark posts as scarcasm. I usually will assume you really mean things seriously. Text never translates thoughts like that.

Would need to see actual lists showing which movies were exclusive to Beta and which to VHS, likewise with Blu Ray vs HD-DVD, you're also referring to a format war, which is much, much, much different than a console hardware war.  The format war has far wider economic implications.  And one invariably dies, and never comes back except as the butt of jokes.

Not unless you had the assets, you don't have fill metal access to the engine to reprogram it for another console. Otherwise people would be doing this to exclusives to have them running on PC.

Porting is still a bit of work, which could mean a whole lot for smaller studios. As for bigger ones, they're already releasing games on most platforms unless they have exclusivity deals. And then there's custom engines, which obviously have issues with supporting multiple platforms because it's a lot more work.

No, we're never getting to the point where everything is powerful enough to run everything unless everything runs in the web or in the cloud. Computer architectures simply are so different from each other that whenever you have something that fully takes advantage of one platform, the other platforms aren't going to be able to emulate it properly.

PS3 had a lot of movie and move exclusives, I was fine with it.