Poll: Exclusives, Exclusives, Exclusives.

[Spirultima]

(Now with added Search bar approval!)

To get one thing clear, im a Sony fanboy (if you didn't know that already).

I don't like exclusives, i don't see the point of exclusives, in my eyes exclusives give room for console wars.

I understand some games can't be ported, like MGS4 to the Genesis.

What do you guys think of exclusives?

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

As a PC Gamer, I hate them because all the games I want to play don't get released for me. Or if they do I'm 6 months behind everyone else.

 

[tomtom94]

I swear that exclusives must breach some form of trading standards rights...
While the concept baffles me I can see the business sense behind it. It will also continue as long as there are videogame consoles made by different companies.

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

to a certain degree i dont see the point, often its just about branding/marketing. obviously sometimes there are major differences in what peices of hardware can handle (multi disk set of MGS 4 for Xbox 360 would be lame) but then again interface is malso an issue i don't get the idea of FPS and RTS on a console, without keyboard and mouse support it just becomes sluggish and uncomfortable

 

[Starnerf]

Exclusives are cheaper to make. Developing a game for multiple platforms requires more money, time and effort on the part of the developers and if they don't think the resources spent to produce the ports will be recovered in revenue then they usually won't bother.

 

[Sassafrass]

To me, it's just one company going to another: "NEH-NEH, look at us with our game which is only released to us!"

It's just a penis extension, really.

 

[Spirultima]

I just did a quick search, and this is me revoking your serach bar seal of approval.

His brother takes over!

This is anti-exclusives, not wanting exclusives, or PS3 vs. 360 exclusives.

 

[Subzerowings]

LOL at sony losing all its exclusives.

Gonna go play me some GTA....Whens the next MGS coming out?

Hey hey hey, now I can report you twice! You're so much fun (seriously I'm filled with glee right now)!
On topic: I think it's the same concept as life. Would life be interesting without hardships? Would consoles be interesting without exclusives? I don't like it, but it could be worse, so I'm enyoying this ride right now and I'm hoping Bobby Kotick dies very soon...before MW2 comes out.

 

[Hitman 43]

(Now with added Search bar approval!)

To get one thing clear, im a Sony fanboy (if you didn't know that already).

I don't like exclusives, i don't see the point of exclusives, in my eyes exclusives give room for console wars.

I understand some games can't be ported, like MGS4 to the Genesis.

What do you guys think of exclusives?

Mostly I don't care about them, unless it's for a game I am extremely hyped for.

 

[Spirultima]

(Now with added Search bar approval!)

To get one thing clear, im a Sony fanboy (if you didn't know that already).

I don't like exclusives, i don't see the point of exclusives, in my eyes exclusives give room for console wars.

I understand some games can't be ported, like MGS4 to the Genesis.

What do you guys think of exclusives?

Mostly I don't care about them, unless it's for a game I am extremely hyped for.

Well don't you feel that everyone should be able to experience the game your playing?

Its why im hoping Valve will just say "Look L4D2 WILL be coming out on PS3 as well" (even if it doesn't i can play it on the main console it was designed for, PC.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

There will always be exclusives while the console manufacturers have big stakes in some of the software companies. It's not a bad thing to have exclusives. In an ideal world we'd be able to own all the consoles and enjoy the rich bounty each has to offer. In this flawed and fucked up world, you have to look at the console exclusives and choose a console which has more of the games you like.
For many years I bet on the wrong horse (Saturn, Dreamcast, etc) because those consoles had more games that appealed to me. Even though I invested all that money into doomed consoles, it don't regret it or think I "wasted" that money because I did get some serious enjoyment playing those games...

You young'ens don't realise that you live in an age where exclusives are rapidly diminishing. Back in the SNES/Megadrive days there were exclusive titles up the yinyang. I think more titles were exclusive to each console than there were multi-platform.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Exclusives? Sure, I like them. I mean, yes, I would love for everything to be on one console. But realistically they make consoles worth buying. No console exclusives would kill this industry dead, methinks. Perhaps in a single console generation...