Lately while looking through forums and reading articles I have come across the opinion that mult-platform games are what is best for gamers.  What could be better than everyone getting to play the same game on whatever console they have?  Personally I think this is a misguided view, as much as the "No Child Left Behind" program in public schools.  Actually there appear to be some similarities between the ideas.  Not that it always happened this way, but there was a time when teachers could teach to the average student, or even the brightest, without fear of reprimand.  Now teachers have to teach to their worst students so no one is left behind.  What is the end result?  The outcome is everyone in the class gets a more dumbed-down version (can you even imagine it getting worse?) of the course.  No one wins. Multiplatforming is very similar in this regard and the results, believe it or not, are strikingly similar.  When a game, take any Ubisoft game for instance, is made on the Xbox 360 and then ported to the PS3, the PS3 owners are not getting the most from their machine.  This will be the case with most systems unless they are essentially identical, and none of the next gen systems are.  Each it seems has its strengths and those strengths will generally not be utilized when making a game work for all three.  However, if more games were exclusive then the console's strengths could be better exploited leading to better games on all systems.  If this happened then the next generation of gaming could truly begin.  We would no longer be playing games that provide the lowest common denominator so that it can be similarly played on three or four systems.  Perhaps then we could see the true differences between the consoles.  The current situation is much akin to the political parties of the late 19 century, there is not much to really set them apart from one another (granted the Wii has motion-control stuff but it has not been implemented to its potential because of cross-platforming).  This is not a demand for all multiplatforming games to cease.  Rather this is a plead to rethink the nature of the dreaded Exclusivity in console gaming, and if multiplatform games are needed to focus more on making three distinct, if not wholly unique, games with a common theme.   Perhaps, if we are lucky, gaming will bypass the crisis of the educational system.