You're right, I was assuming.

Other companies might not be as diverse as Capcom, and thus not relying on the revenue from their heavy hitters to supplement their less successful endeavors.

Breaking news: people mostly jump onto forums and speak passionately online if something directly affects them in a negative manner (or in a supremely positive manner). For video games, this includes people who may not care for a particular genre of game (in this case, fighting games) but do not like the company involved (in this case, Sony) and do not want to see them get another feather in their proverbial cap. Comes down to "I don't want to buy another system to play a game I love! This is BS and I'm scared it will kill the franchise!" intermingled with "Doesn't this piss you off? Aren't these companies just so fucking evil? Click here for an online petition to show our numbers and spite that accursed religion...er, platform."

Ugh. I know right? It's all about anonymity. That's why the internet can bring the worst out in people.

D'aw. Thanks, I needed that today : )

Well that's actually kind of the point isn't it? The sentiment they try to put forward is "I don't care/nobody cares/nobody should care!" but their passion in how they put that forward gives them away.

How topical.

This is another topic entirely, but that's another response that bugs me. "Just buy a ps4/Xbone. What? You can't aford $400 for a new console"? Because for all people who make that argument know, no I can't afford that. And indeed no I can't.

I actually have hope that these situations will get less common as the generation goes on. As games get more expensive to make refraining from releasing one's game on as many platforms as is viable is an increasingly unwise move. I think we're just seeing exclusivity wars flare up again because it's the start of a new generation and Sony and Microsoft are trying hard to solidify their market shares. Once the install bases have been firmly established (a few years in, hopefully) then I think they'll stop throwing money around to snap up titles. I hope that's what will happen anyway.

That's just human nature and not exclusive to internet forums or the internet. 

You're kind of proving my point. The fact is I don't need either of the consoles because games are coming to PC, which I own. It's not myself I'm dissapointed for, but others who have to shell out not insubstantial cash if they want to play those games, and I don't think that's a situation they should be put in.

You may think that's a silly thing to concern myself with, luckily I don't ask that you give a crap about like I do.

That's why I don't stand against console manufacturers making games of their own. Sony makes Killzone, they can publish it on whatever systems they want.

But when it comes to just buying up titles, it's another matter. Such as in the case of Tomb Raider. It was already coming to Xbox, all microsoft did was pay off Squeenix to not let anybody else have it for a while. We english majors refer to that as a "dick move".