Exclusives in the first place seem like a way to artificially create a category to narrow down what there is to compare between consoles, and ignores features that may matter to some and not others.
Every game is in a sense exclusive. The code used for a port is considerably different than the original. Each machine has its own libraries and features to use, and special effects to add. The idea of exclusives wrongly ignore the differences between these ports.What's more ports can go horribly, horribly wrong. How is it remotely sane to say a port of a game universally recognized as great, is the same game as its port that is universally criticized as underwhelming.
If I have to recognize exclusives, then I say ANY deliberate changes make a new game, so Ninja Gaiden Sigma and MLB are exclusive, as is GRAW, as is Resident Evil Wii Edition, or any last gen ports if they have been updated in ANY way. A different edition is a different edition. You can claim its the same "basic" game, but that just leaves everything open to interpretation, this is a meaningful change, but that isn't. It's all nonsense and personal opinion.
I think its funny that people are so black and white about things that are clearly subjective.
It's exclusive means I can't play it anywhere else. PERIOD.
The only problem with that is not the definition of exclusive, it's the definition of IT. The actual game, which isn't exactly the same as any other version of the game. There are no exclusives because every game is exclusive. You'll just have to take the whole libraries of systems, as they are, into account when comparing them.
Or you can go on creating inaccurate and irrelevant categories so you can pretend 500 games this generation don't exist.
"Exclusives sell systems!" goes the shout.
There are a lot of reasons systems sell. The best selling 360 launch title wasn't an exclusive and I'm sure Modern Warfare 2 sold a system or two for both platforms. If you were waiting forever to play Bayonetta, and hadn't bought a next gen system because there were no truly AAA beat em ups yet, you might buy a 360 because it was the superior version. If you love Batman, but hadn't bought a next gen system yet, when Batman AA came out, you might buy a PS3 because of the added content. More likely, people buy a console because of the WHOLE library, the games they see sitting on the shelves in an actual shop or online, or more likely still, because their circle of friends or family play a particular system. The actual answer is people buy systems for all of these reason, plus perceived exclusives, which would almost certainly include No More Heroes if you were inclined to buy a Wii for it, plus many, many other reasons, from hardware features, to design and marketing.
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