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Message: [QUOTE="PhaseJump, post: 369542, member: 72924"] Metroid Prime wasn't even considered an FPS, even when it launched. It was a 3D conversion of the old action platformer, and people coming from Halo used to laugh at it being so slow and cumbersome. You couldn't run and gun in it, you had to stop to aim. All that is beside the point. Exclusives are stupid. A byproduct of a bygone era where hardware differences mattered. Developing software and limiting it to the established customer base on a specific locked down platform kills potential sales returns on the up-front marketing, and it's largely a death sentence when development budgets are too high. Multi-platform game studios have been targeting portable middleware or game engines and making a lot of money pleasing everybody they can, but they have had failures when being time limited exclusives. Late-ports to other platforms lose the immediate launch buzz, have weaker sales potential. Customized hardware that went into consoles used to require specialized expertise at the low level, decades later and development is a different ball game. The hardware is largely the same and standardized. Platforms are just store fronts you're locked into that [I]should[/I] be running on top of the open PC market so that anybody can do what they want. If Nintendo were to "sell" half of the shit that people are decompiling and porting to PC, they would annihilate their own sales records by remaining locked to crappy toy hardware. Their quality would speak for itself. They would probably triple lifetime sales of their games like Zelda and Mario overnight. [/QUOTE]

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