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Reuters: Era of Exclusive Video Game Deals Ending
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Suburban Cowboy
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Wow reuters, really ahead of the curve here.
Africa's Toto
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If only, dreadfully-wrong-article-from-2008, if only.
Excuse the bump, but I didn't think a new thread would be worth this:
I think Exclusives should die out, from the point of view of consumers.
Obviously, from an economic point of view, software drives the console-makers' unit sales and so exclusivity benefits them the most.
But why do you want it?
If emulators can play every Playstation, Nintendo or Xbox game to date (with slight control compromise in the case of nintendo), and each of the major two console makers have similar performance output for their hardware, then why would you, as a consumer, want a new game to be released just for your preferred platform when there's no hardware limitation keeping it from others?
People should have no unfounded allegiance to a specific console maker, so it shouldn't matter
Honest question: why do you want games to be exclusive to your console?
The only thing I can think of is that having a bunch of games from past generations on that console brand would keep you wanting more games on that console brand.
Excuse the bump, but I didn't think a new thread would be worth this:
I think Exclusives should die out, from the point of view of consumers.
Obviously, from an economic point of view, software drives the console-makers' unit sales and so exclusivity benefits them the most.
But why do you want it?
If emulators can play every Playstation, Nintendo or Xbox game to date (with slight control compromise in the case of nintendo), and each of the major two console makers have similar performance output for their hardware, then why would you, as a consumer, want a new game to be released just for your preferred platform when there's no hardware limitation keeping it from others?
People should have no unfounded allegiance to a specific console maker, so it shouldn't matter
Honest question: why do you want games to be exclusive to your console?
The only thing I can think of is that having a bunch of games from past generations on that console brand would keep you wanting more games on that console brand.
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Agent_Nobody
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What’s with the weird necro bumps lately?
sublimit
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rofif
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excuse me ?
That was the most exclusives era. 360 and ps3 fighting with pc to the side.
oh fuck it's 2008 post
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mortal
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nush
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There's a forum feature that recommends similar topics and people click on them not noticing the date. You can turn this feature off.
NeoIkaruGAF
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GeorgPrime
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i would tell a company "Jeah we can do an exclusive deal.... but.... the price depends on the amount of sold copies".
When i can sell 1.000.000 copies of it on PS 5 alone i will count it as 3 Million Copies if i would release it also on Xbox Series X and Switch at the same time.
So i sold 1.000.000 copies on PS 5 but i could have theoretically sold 3 millione copies on all systems. Lets give them a discount of 10 %. Then they have to pay me the sum of 2,700,000 Million sold copies. xD
The rest will be standard processes
When i can sell 1.000.000 copies of it on PS 5 alone i will count it as 3 Million Copies if i would release it also on Xbox Series X and Switch at the same time.
So i sold 1.000.000 copies on PS 5 but i could have theoretically sold 3 millione copies on all systems. Lets give them a discount of 10 %. Then they have to pay me the sum of 2,700,000 Million sold copies. xD
The rest will be standard processes
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SlimySnake
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I see only two multiplat games that have won GOTY. The last five years have all been exclusives. Why do you think that is?
Third party games are bound by deadlines, and other publisher directives that keep them from taking risks and getting released in a polished state. There is a reason why Ubisoft is the most productive publisher of last gen and was still not able to even get in GOTY conversations. They just churn out one forgettable game after another. Whereas Sony, MS and Nintendo are willing to let their devs take 5-6 years to get the game just right.
mckmas8808
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YES! Yes, I want some games to be exclusive to the console. Most of the time, those are the best games. And it's like that for a reason.
BaneIsPain
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2008, exclusive is here to stay.
FunkMiller
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Pagusas
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Dave_at_Home
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Sander Cohen
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On this day in 2008….
Some?
Pagusas
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ok lol, most! I mean I was posting in threads as early as 2006...
I'll admit I've almost necrobumped a few old threads only to realize to my dismay I had already posted in them... over a decade ago lol
cireza
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I don't.
S0ULZB0URNE
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Not from this customers point of view.
This type of bumping(and bs) is borderline ban worthy bra.
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