[QUOTE="AncientDozer"][QUOTE="SaudiFury"] tell that to Mario and Master Chief. yes multiplats greatly outnumber exclusives. but exclusives do matter and if they're a hit they will leave an impression on the general public as well.SaudiFury
Tell that to Call of Duty. Exclusivity just isn't that important anymore. GTA? Jumped. Demon Souls? Say hi to Dark Souls or whatever it's called. Final Fantasy? Hello multiplat. Mass Effect, Bioshock, Metal Gear. Multiplat. More and more games are going multiplat. Even Fable and certain other Microsoft games are also Games for Windows. Exclusivity and First Party don't make as big a difference as they used to be. I mean, look at Call of Duty? Not exclusive. Yet one of the best selling games of all time and apparently, according to some of our peers, the sole reason that the 360 survives (Is it really that much more popular on the 360?). Even BLIZZARD is considering in some way bringing (again) one of their IPs to the console arena.People seem to be misunderstanding my comment.
exclusives not being as important this generation as they were last? i'd agree with that. but are less important no?
from a corporate AND general public view, a hit exclusive IS important. If you want Mario you go straight to Nintendo, if you want MasterChief you go to Xbox. Argue technicalities if you wish with emulators and Halo 1 if you like, but from both those pov, you go straight to the brand.
if you want Call of Duty just pick it up on whatever platform you like best, and call it a day.
first party exclusives do matter, if they did not they wouldn't still be bothering to make them. All three console makers experiment each generation with new IP's looking for the next great hit, and so long as they continue to make profit, they will continue to support it. Largely because they are exclusive and they lend an image to the console they're trying to sell.
Think Mario you think Nintendo, you think Halo you think Xbox, and when you see a Helghan you think Playstation. You want to play those games go pick up their machine. You know a platform is working whenever someone says Nintendo/Playstation/Xbox on a TV show or movie, when it gets to be said by name, the general public takes note of it.
and we shouldn't have go through the arguement of sales =/ quality thing again. Just Dance sold buckets more then a lot of other hardcore cores games, yet i'd see very few hands here on these forums would be amazed by it. Just as nobody would call the Transformers movies anything better then a decent popcorn flick, and yet it made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaking for myself i picked up PS3 because i wanted the great library of exclusives, it has a robust first party development team, and it was more suited to my tastes. Then you got the third party games.
Third party exclusivity is dead this generation, that much has been proven quite abundantly clear this gen. but first party is anything but dead/dying.
Honestly I think peopel who act like exclusives aren't that important are just saying this because a certain console is lacking them lately. Because no one was acting like exclusives didnt matter early in the gen
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