It'd be great if you read that sentence back to yourself and see where your logical falters.
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Exclusives suck (unless developed with a specific hardware limitation/use case in mind)
- Thread starter Doc Kelso
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Flimsy reason for giving Nintendo a pass, but yeah, in a perfect world I would be able to play XGS games on Playstation, watch The Expanse on Netflix, use the App Store on Android, and find all my Whole Foods go-to's at Wal-Mart. Unfortunately that's not how business works under Capitalism.
This is the other aspect part of it, after platform-exclusives being mostly "solved" for some time re: movies releasing on physical media, they've come back when the streaming wars made that easy and attractive to do again.
Phrasing was a bit wonk, agreed, but people making PC games aren't contractually bound to PC only. It's just technical or financial limitations in most cases. That's just how it is. But if I'm overlooking some major logical error, oh please do set me straight.
Soon not giving stuff for free like Epic will be called anti-consumer
A lot of PS4 games also have PC equivalents, you could just play those? That way you wouldn't have to worry about console performance or purchase price either for something that you're just going to use for gaming.
...Sony wants to sell consoles. The best way to get people to buy the console is to have it exclusive. It makes no business sense to do otherwise for them. Unlike Microsoft. Which nobody should have to explain what PC means to them.
And how can you complain about Sony but accept Nintendo doing the same thing?
And how can you complain about Sony but accept Nintendo doing the same thing?
Because I want to play Bloodborne at above 20fps and without frame stuttering god dammit!
Hey man, I rescinded that because I realized my excuse was flimsy at best.
Please let me know when I can play Pony Island or Frog Fractions on a console.
Okay, and what makes their situation different from Sony's, where it's far more economically advantageous for them to develop games for their own platform?
It's a completely arbitrary distinction based only on "I wanna play that game, but I don't wanna pay the price for it".
Why not? As long as there is no money hat games, I'm ok with company offering a products you can't find somewhere else.
lol at anti consumer
if beeing anti consumer means im getting shows like The Witcher, Stranger Things, Elite, the Mandalorian or LOTR then yeah im gladly a anticonsumer - sorry guys
if beeing anti consumer means im getting shows like The Witcher, Stranger Things, Elite, the Mandalorian or LOTR then yeah im gladly a anticonsumer - sorry guys
Man I'm still waiting for FTL to be on anything besides PC and iOS.
Call it a sixth sense or what have you, but I knew something along these lines was going to be in the OP before I even clicked it.
I think every third party game should be made with the three companies and pc in mind. Especially those that have been around for decades.
If only releasing games on one platform is so economically advantageous, I don't see why Microsoft or even Sony themselves have let so many exclusives slip.
The title is correct at least, since even if you want to play an exclusive game on a different console, it will have to be played differently (different controls/inputs, stereoscopic 3D, VR/AR etc.)
Technically, PCs should be able to play everything, but if certain inputs aren't standard they might not take off as quickly.
So the only clear reasons for me are: pushing a new input standard or visual effect via an new expression in a game, or to sell hardware which can popularize the input standard or visual effect.
Technically, PCs should be able to play everything, but if certain inputs aren't standard they might not take off as quickly.
So the only clear reasons for me are: pushing a new input standard or visual effect via an new expression in a game, or to sell hardware which can popularize the input standard or visual effect.
... What?
Let's get one thing straight here: If we can be sure of one thing, it's that any corporation will do what is most profitable for them. If it's keeping some exclusives and letting others go, then they'll do that. The argument you're trying to make is a pretty dead end.
Microsoft is bringing games to their platforms
Sony is bringing games to their platform
And yet Microsoft good and Sony bad? Nice one lol
Sony is bringing games to their platform
And yet Microsoft good and Sony bad? Nice one lol
If exclusives aren't a thing then they can only be competitive on hardware. And the best hardware manafacturer get all the benefits of the hard work done by the software developers of different companies. Way to take away incentive to create amazing and unique games.
This has been explained so many times I'm suprised there's still so many people holding the same opinion as OP on here.
I mean, in this site we have people strongly defending Nintendo's ancient and terrible policies, like how they handle online services. I'm not surprised at all.
Honestly? The breakdown is that I don't have to buy a machine specifically for gaming/media consumption in order to play MS games. My PC is used for a massive variety of things and I don't need to buy a special machine just to experience whatever they put out.
Hardware exclusives are a major downer. Between the different stores on PC being exclusive, I do not mind so much if at all cause I have access to each of those stores. Certainly not ideal if they have multiplayer or co-op that are not compatible with each other, but that is a solved/solvable issue over the long run.
Damn Sony for making and funding games for their own hardware they should instead toss it on another platform that isn't their own
Every company is a business first. Sony went into this industry to produce hardware and SELL that hardware and be choosing to do so they built up their own exclusives to reach said goal.
Same reason why other companies produce content to sell whatever thing they are selling be it a streaming service or hardware too said thing is only anti consumer when it turns out to be a device/service you don't own compared to another.
Everyone would've liked/loved another company to give up on their exclusives and instead develop it for their own ecosystem but honestly all these games your drooling over to play on your rig would've never even been made in the first place let alone released later on PC if they weren't exclusives to begin with. They were pitched and funded due to being exclusives in the first place.
Third parties follow a different format and execution then first parties do; different risk taking too.
YES even now for MS and GamePass, said future games will be developed and funded NOT because MS wants to sing along and toss their game on every single platform (they don't) but instead they want people to have a reason to go an invest in their GAMEPASS platform and Xbox ecosystem.
Every company is a business first. Sony went into this industry to produce hardware and SELL that hardware and be choosing to do so they built up their own exclusives to reach said goal.
Same reason why other companies produce content to sell whatever thing they are selling be it a streaming service or hardware too said thing is only anti consumer when it turns out to be a device/service you don't own compared to another.
Everyone would've liked/loved another company to give up on their exclusives and instead develop it for their own ecosystem but honestly all these games your drooling over to play on your rig would've never even been made in the first place let alone released later on PC if they weren't exclusives to begin with. They were pitched and funded due to being exclusives in the first place.
Third parties follow a different format and execution then first parties do; different risk taking too.
YES even now for MS and GamePass, said future games will be developed and funded NOT because MS wants to sing along and toss their game on every single platform (they don't) but instead they want people to have a reason to go an invest in their GAMEPASS platform and Xbox ecosystem.
Yes of course, no one has made art unless they're being funded by some moneymen to keep it locked behind arbitrary gates.
This is such a myopic opinion. If you'd get your wish, platform holders simply wouldn't invest money in the actual development of games, because it wouldn't be a way to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Console exclusives that Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft develops are the literal product of competition in the marketplace. I really don't understand how anyone could have any problem with this.
Yup and now it's to a point where the mods have to take charge. This is a bad narrative to set, can't believe I'm reading this on reset era. Oh and Nintendo exclusives are ok this Microsoft narrative switching is getting bad.
