infohippie said:
hanselthecaretaker said:
infohippie said:
I really don't think any game that is exclusive to a single platform should even be up for consideration. So that would rule out Persona 5, Zelda, and Horizon Zero Dawn.
That would eliminate many of the best-made games. Anyways what I don?t like is that, besides these types of awards shows being generic popularity contests, the categories are almost like what you?d find for movies. There should be more game-centric categories that reward feats of excellence specific to the gaming medium.
Platform exclusives are a cancer on the industry and should be stamped out with extreme prejudice.
Johnny Novgorod said:
Wouldn't that also rule out Super Mario Odyssey? That game can only be played on Switch; Zelda at least runs on Wii U as well. Persona 5 is also on PS3.
Yes, it should rule out any Mario game as well. PS3/PS4 aren't really different platforms, just different generations of the same platform. The only time a platform exclusive should be at all acceptable is when it literally technically can't be made to work on the other current generation machines.
My first point still stands though, and here?s why it matters [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/02/21/the-exclusive-gap-between-ps4-and-xbox-one-has-become-a-canyon/amp/] in a nutshell.
The key is it depends on the company. Not saying Sony it perfect by any means, as they?ve had their fair share of clusterf*cks. However, it?s clear that Microsoft still doesn?t know what the hell they?re doing when they can?t buy their way to success.
The other thing is, it?s almost always big third party multiplatform publishers that are guilty of the biggest cancer in gaming, which is currently microtransactions, on disc dlc, online-only gameplay, etc. We can?t simply homogenize the industry just because people don?t want to have to buy another box to play a certain game or two. The whole industry would need to change its business model if that were going to be at all possible, because otherwise the lowest common denominator will ultimately always win out, and then everyone suffers. Competition works for a reason, but at the same time yes, it needs to have reasonable parameters to prevent corruption.
