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Message: [QUOTE="KenaiPhoenix, post: 369498, member: 637256"] It is something I have been thinking for a while, now that Sony and Xbox are selling most of their games in each other platforms and on PC, besides Nintendo, exclusives are dead. And this is a bad thing. Yeah in the narrow view of things exclusives are an abuse for the gamers because you need to get all systems to enjoy all the best games of a generation, but if you widen you analysis you will see that even if thats true, gamers ultimately win by getting better games in this competition of "My platform has better games". I will elaborate When Halo launched on the original Xbox it put this new comer in the spotlight and forced the other companies to also have some kind of "mature" FPS in their systems, by starting projects or just booting with finance already developed ideas. I will focus on Metroid Prime for the Gamecube and Killzone for the PlayStation, both systems has some other FPS, but they needed their own, something that you cant play on Xbox after finishing Halo. Metroid Prime was a success (at least critically) having a gritty FPS on the GameCube, but Killzone was just "Meh". Anyone that played it knows it. It is not bad, but nothing spectacular either, you could live without it. It probably didnt deserve a sequel but Sony needed something to go against the hypothetically Halo 3 of the new 360, so Killzone 2 was born... and it is really REALLY good, even being played to this day. Companies will fund and develop exclusives because even if they are not that profitable they will allow them to sell consoles, and they can make it up with license there. Of course it is just cheaper to just release games on all platforms, specially on these days with even the game engines being standardized. And I know, it sucked to have a PlayStation because you wanted Devil May Cry and missed Halo, but in a world without exclusive you would have Halo on the PS2, but you would not have Metroid Prime or Killzone (or at very best, a not that very good one, since companies would have spent less). In a more modern example: if CoD would have become an Xbox PC exclusive, Sony would have been in panic and would be developing their own fast phased FPS CoD competitor, maybe resurrect Killzone. Maybe in order to get more players just ditch down the crazy monetization trying to get the people tired of this... but we get nothing because why would they just do it, if they can spent less money on just a "PS Plus package" of CoD? The game is anywhere regardless. Like the title says: now that exclusives are dead, all gamers lose [/QUOTE]

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