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Console exclusives
Topic Started: Jul 2 2015, 02:49 AM (1,133 Views)
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Not to mention on PC every game is free.
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Console exclusives are the only things keeping consoles afloat right now. If every exclusive was available on PC, there'd be no real reason to get a console at all (aside from wanting to play with friends, though they'd also likely make the jump to PC so they can enjoy the exclusive games of the consoles they don't have). While this may seem like a decent idea with the Xbox One and PS4, it would take Nintendo completely out of the hardware scene. A lot of people don't like exclusives, but I honestly do. Exclusives on one console could encourage the opposing consoles to create a game that's better than it, to both appease their fans and bring over fans from the other consoles.

The current market is quite bad, but I prefer it to one where PC completely dominates in every area.
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Yeah exclusives between consoles are necessary, without them gaming wouldn't be what it is today.

Each company wouldn't be forced to improve their systems and games, the gaming crash way back probably would have been the end of it if there was no rivalry between companies to keep it going.

Assuming Nintendo dominated and became the only games company ever they could release any old s*** and it would be the best there is and all people would have then PC would probably destroy Nintendo. Afterwards PC would just chug along improving as hardware does instead of needing to get innovative to impress people.

Exclusives are very necessary for the industry. If there was only one system on the market nobody would bother trying that hard.


Everything being cheap/free or 100% accessible would destroy it slowly until each new age like VR etc etc. If it got that far with nobody to out do.
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I'm personally gonna dispute that, I think plenty of companies would still compete, the developers, the shooters would try to outdo each other like they're already doing. Competition will continue, it's just that hardware us gonna towards optimization and utility while software now directly competes with each other, halo is gonna compete with killzone directly now instead of them being able to slack and let Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo/whoever fans that buy the console and fame anyway.

Only time it should be exclusive is if it's doing something special that needs that specific hardware, like the majority of wii games, or pc with its RTS and ARTS.
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Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.

But they're going to get their money either way so it wouldn't really work, how often do you hear of people restricting themselves to buying from only one publisher?

People who like FPS games tend to get pretty much every new FPS that comes out and then drop it for the next overly hyped up one.

Happens with basically every genre.


But a publisher with Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft backing them gets the funding and pressure to create a better game and/or exclusive one so that the platform gets more popularity.
Look how good Bloodborne is compared to Dark Souls II, FromSoftware tried so much harder due to the deal with Sony and compared to their other titles made a pretty great game.

Vs if it was just one platform/PC why is PC going to fund publishers to compete with itself? Or deliberately give some money to make others look s***, it just wouldn't make sense.
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While that's certainly an idea, but I don't think people will stop making makes good because now they aren't working for a console manufacture, besides most exclusive aren't that great, is anyone still playing Knack? I think it has more to do with being a sequel with the developers honing technique than it has to do with the exclusivity deal. Not only that but it seems to encourage a console war mentality that I find poisonous to discussion, and then you have the s*** with Street Fighter 5, a multi platform game by tradition, going ps4 exclusive so Sony can have an answer to Killer Instinct. And then there are simply bizarre exclusives like halo for xbox only, which seems to be that way mostly to keep the xbox relevant, despite it being something pc users have been asking for for a long time.
I think they do more bad than good overall honestly. This is excluding games that are straight up specific to their platform of choice, like the rts or many titles on Nintendo.
Edit: I believe the other multi platform publishers will pick up the slack on that.
Edited by Tinny, Jul 7 2015, 09:50 PM.
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Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.

Can't really judge exclusives by one of the first games to come out on a system, they're virtually always terrible because nobody knows what they're doing for a couple of years, hence why only now are we getting to the good stuff.


Yeah s*** like Street Fighter and Bayonetta 2 is crappy, to take an already established multi-platform series and only produce it for one platform is lame. Same with timed exclusives.

But new exclusive IP's are a different story.

While the platform war might be vulgar it does generate a ton of revenue :p I don't think it'd ever matter what they do even if Xbox, Ninteno, PS4 and PC all had the same specs and games people would still argue which is better for the sake of it, it's a symptom of us being human really nothing could stop it.
Fierce loyalty makes people buy more games for their preferred system so it's quite an earner.


Also it's fantastic having multiple platforms for when one utterly f***s up.
Remember how Microsoft were going to release the X1 originally? If Sony wasn't there with a better product Xbox users would have to put up with DRM and all that crap. The more powerful hardware on PC wouldn't make it exempt from s***ty business decisions like that, which all gamers would suffer from if there was only one platform and all they could do is whine while the developers control what's acceptable, since they have no superior products to contend with.
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You guys make some very valid points. Consoles would be pointless without exclusives. Well aside from the fact that not everyone wants to use a PC to game on for one big reason.

They are complex to get games to work on compared to consoles. With a console, you buy the game, pop it in and get to playing. With PC's, you have to know the specs, you need to make sure the files aren't misplaced over time, and, with older games, you have to have the right settings, or even get an emulator.
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You guys make some very valid points. Consoles would be pointless without exclusives. Well aside from the fact that not everyone wants to use a PC to game on for one big reason.

They are complex to get games to work on compared to consoles. With a console, you buy the game, pop it in and get to playing. With PC's, you have to know the specs, you need to make sure the files aren't misplaced over time, and, with older games, you have to have the right settings, or even get an emulator.
Very true, less so today, but still very true, honestly I'd feel they'd have more of a point to existing if they had more split screen, a thing which pcs just don't do, or just local multiplayer in general.

And thank you! While I disagree with Steve, I do think he's making valid arguments.
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While the platform war might be vulgar it does generate a ton of revenue :p I don't think it'd ever matter what they do even if Xbox, Ninteno, PS4 and PC all had the same specs and games people would still argue which is better for the sake of it, it's a symptom of us being human really nothing could stop it.
Fierce loyalty makes people buy more games for their preferred system so it's quite an earner.
I do wish consumers stopped having company loyalty personally, but that's something the companies want to cultivate, though still, they're supposed to earn your money, not you having to earn spending it on something else. This is admittedly not really related but I wanted to get that off my chest.
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Also it's fantastic having multiple platforms for when one utterly f***s up.
Remember how Microsoft were going to release the X1 originally? If Sony wasn't there with a better product Xbox users would have to put up with DRM and all that crap. The more powerful hardware on PC wouldn't make it exempt from s***ty business decisions like that, which all gamers would suffer from if there was only one platform and all they could do is whine while the developers control what's acceptable, since they have no superior products to contend with.

Yes, but the pc has Linux and Apple to compete with as computer operating systems, not simply as umm... Consoles(?). There had to be a better name than game player. More games are becoming multiple OS, even if this trend continues to where no games are exclusive to one OS they still compete on a nongame level, and as such I don't think they can afford to do something like that, as everyone would likely just so buying it, including the people who don't play games, especially those as they don't need specific requirements for games. I believe the PC is protected from that in a way the console is not.
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Can't really judge exclusives by one of the first games to come out on a system, they're virtually always terrible because nobody knows what they're doing for a couple of years, hence why only now are we getting to the good stuff.
Fair enough.
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Jul 7 2015, 05:32 PM
Not to mention on PC every game is free.
No they aren't.
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