It's like most people just woke up here and see to have forgotten that this is all first and foremost a business. And they have rivals. I know we all hate exclusivity deals of any sort, but the bottom line is that in an industry where you are making a very similar product with very similar offerings and at a very similar price point, that along with your own personal offerings (first party stuff) is the only way to compete.
Sonys biggest weapon going into nextgen is its current brand power and momentum. A third party dev is probably 70% more likely to do an exclusivity deal with Sony simply because they know that globally, their game will sell the most on Sony's platform.
And people shouldn't for a second think that MS would not be doing this if they could.
And It makes perfect sense to focus on the hardcore gamers first (aka the people willing to spend $500 just for a GPU, the early adopters, the people least concerned by price) cause those are the people that are buying your console within the first year. Those are the people that set your word of mouth ball rolling. Its just business, don't know it seems to be surprising some people and upsetting others.
Wow, PlayStation's development over the past 3 years or so is completely contradictory to what I personally want out of a gaming platform. That's great, because it makes it easier to not use a PlayStation as my main console. On the other hand it'll likely secure a PlayStation as my complementary device to whatever Nintendo does with Switch and what comes after it. So I guess in a certain way I should be very satisfied with how PlayStation handles things. On the other hand though, the reasons for buying a PlayStation over a Xbox become less overall. If Microsoft can secure parity with big JP third parties, the small quirks of each ecosystem will become more and more important to which platform I'll personally want as my big budget machine. So Sony's walking on a narrow path right here, at least for me as an individual consumer.
And this makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially the part about MS securing parity with big JP third parties.
I'm super curious though, what it is that you want out of a game console that PlayStation has been failing at the last three years. I don't need you to answer that though, at the end we are all entitled to our opinions.
