There will be less and less 3rd Party exclusives yes, just a lot more Timed Exclusives
There will just be a greater emphasis in 1st and 2nd Party Exclusives, which Microsoft has a disadvantage in, especially 1st Party.
You can't make a statement like this, it just depends on if budgets for games get under control by next generation.
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Games with massive budgets are either funded by a platform maker who wants them exclusive to broaden the appeal of the console or the game goes multiplat.
I just don't see it happening any other way.
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Next Gen there will only be one console!
It's all a matter of how differentiated systems are in the next wave of consoles. MS and Sony both made a serious FUBAR this generation by making their systems more or less identical from an everyman's perspective. If the Wii did not have such differentiation from those two to set it ahead of them, then we would have seen a near-perfect repeat of the previous wave of consoles: one system getting all of the exclusives that matter, and the other two getting the leftovers. One might argue that this is already happening, given that the Wii prints money while the PS3 and 360 mostly just eat it, but just the same, you didn't see many GameCube and XBOX only titles last gen.
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I think Microsoft is in a much better position than most people give them credit for. They have, far and away, the most R&D/Acquisition money to spend on games and studios. So, overnight, their standing as far as first/second party exclusives could increase just by tossing some cash around.
OP: I would have agreed with you yesterday, but I'm not so sure today. As companies start developing and improving their own game engines(like Frostbite and Crystal Tools), then synching them up to the various CPU's out there, in lieu of paying companies like Epic, I think costs might come down. Also, as the hardware gets easier to code for(PS3, Wiimote), devs will spend less time troubleshooting and more time doing actual coding. Would it be enough to make an exclusive profitable for a 3rd party company? I don't know. I lean more towards 'no' right now...but it might be possible. That would be my uninformed guess.
| alucardremixed said: Next Gen there will only be one console! |
i know Sega Dreamcast 2 as been in underground development for 7 years
Nintendo, as you stated, doesn't have this problem which is pretty awsome because that's what a gaming company really is, producing games and hardware. Sony also has this but won't be matching Nintendo, and MS is really just holding their breath on money.
| akuma587 said: You can't make a statement like this, it just depends on if budgets for games get under control by next generation. |
How on earth would that happen, though? It's never happened in the history of video games: game budgets have gone up, and up, and up. The only way I can see this possibly happening is if we reverted our graphics/tech to previous levels, because the gradual evolution of tools/engines is clearly much too slow to keep pace with increasing complexity of game development.
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I think there will be third party exclusives.... but they will be rare... or shared with the PC(which to some people means they are not exclusive)
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