Esa-Petteri said:
In few years, you don't need a wii to run wii games. So those obviously aren't exclusive either? After all, with a little tweaking and compromises those games will eventually run on an emulator.
edit:
Yeahyeah, "wine is not an emulator".
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Leaving recursive acronyms aside, the point is different.
You could say that games for windows have been coded aiming at a certain set of APIs that define the "Windows platform". A game written for the Wii is aimed at the "Wii platform". An emulator provides a different "Wii platform" implementation. Thus the day you can play a Wii game on an emulator you are still using the "Wii platform" but not the "Wii hardware product manufactured by Nintendo". It's still a Wii exclusive, just not a Nintendo exclusive anymore, because you don't need a Nintendo piece of hardware to run it.
The day a game runs on Wine you can still say that it is a "Windows platform exclusive", except that you don't need the "Microsoft Windows product" and thus it is not a MS exclusive.
It is only more apparent with Windows and MS than with Wii and Nintendo because in the former case MS only provides the software on an open platform, while in the latter Nintendo provides hardware and system software and everything has to be reverse-engineered.