I doubt we would see a collapse, thats pushing it a bit. Why do two of the 3 consoles need to be pretty much the same? Exclusives dont help the industry they hinder it and they hinder gamers. The industry is not built around consumer loyalty, what your mis interpreting is peoples want of certain games directing them to certain consoles. They dont care for the company they just went with the best option for them, thats just a normal market. I bought an xbox because I liked the games, not because I liked microsoft (which would be the case if it was consumer loyalty). Furthermore you seem to think people only buy games out of loyalty, that doesnt make any sense.Kurenaino said:Woah bro! Calm down!Stripes said:Get off your high horse, you arent as smart as you think you are. Nintendo is publishing the game, great! That doesnt mean its good for gaming to have that game be denied to other gamers purely to sell a console. I dont agree with exclusives, I think anyone who supports exclusives that are exclusive because one company wants to get an edge by denying the game to other consoles is retarded.CaptainMarvelous said:Because the people who make the console are paying the bill to get the game made? Why should they use their money to make a sequel to a game everyone else gave up on, then make it for competitors consoles so other companies can have it, so you can avoid giving them your money for a console they've made and a game they have paid to publish? Not to mention it's WiiU so likely it WILL be exclusive to the console, and you expect Nintendo to foot the bill so it can ported to the X-Box 720 and the PS4? That sounds reasonable to you?Stripes said:Why can they not release it on multiple consoles? Why are people ok with exclusives? How is it somehow fine for a game to be actively denied to people for no other reason than to force them to buy another console? This is just another casuality to a seriously anti consumer practice.
Oh and to those who think they are somehow mighty for belittling people who cant play the sequel to a game they liked: You arent being clever, you're being dickheads. Why on earth should people be forced to buy a console for games which clearly are not specific to the console in question?
Seriously, it's pretty much entirely how the big three compete by who has the best exclusives, no-one would be saying shit if it was an X-box exclusive. Hell, there are people on this forum who still don't think Bethesda's handling of Dawnguard was f*cking shoddy by releasing it for X-box 2 months ahead of PS3 and PC, and that's a legitimate issue as it isn't hard to port DLC.
More OT: We don't ***** about Halo being only on X-Box or God of War only being on Playstation, it just so happens Bayonetta is now only going to be on WiiU. And? If you want to play the game I guess you're going to have to give WiiU a try, if you don't then give Platinum Games the money it needs out of your own pocket to buy back full publishing rights and make a game for the X-box or whatever. It'll only cost you something like 15 million dollars (conservative f*cking estimate there).
It's like Nintendo want us to buy their products or something crazy like that!
I can see why keeping the game exclusive to the Wii U is smart for Nintendo, I cant see how thats good for us. I dont want to buy a Wii U, not out of malice but because I cant afford to buy a Wii U and and Xbox 720 (if indeed I get another generation of console, depends on my circumstances. The 360 seems to be the strongest of the 3 consoles, going with that im gonna go to the next iteration of it. Plus I like the exclusives and all my freinds are getting it, though it having exclusives is no more ok than the Wii U or PS3 having exclusives purely for competition). Im not "avoiding giving them money for a console they've made", which somehow insinuates Im at fault for not buying it at all because they spent money making it, I just cant buy it in my circumstances because they are denying it on platforms I play on.
I dont know the full situation with Dawngaurd, if Microsoft paid for some sort of exclusivity then non-xbox gamers should not be denied the DLC. It isnt fair on gamers, even if the devs are better off. Halo should be on PS3 and God of War should be on xbox. Gamers are not benefiting from this competition, theres no good reason for us to support it.
I would love nothing more than for Bayonetta 2 to be available to everyone, unfortunately Platinum games decided they couldnt self publish (though they could publish the abysmal 'Vanquish') it and Nintendo is now publishing. That isnt my fault. Why is it somehow fine for Nintendo to act against our interests but not Activision or EA? They both go against our interests and are hated for it, why is it ok here?
I suppose this is my question to you: why have different consoles if you can get all the same games on just one? Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo would all go out of business if their consoles didn't have a strong selling point, and those points have to be the software. I do get your point, it can really suck if a game's coming out that you want on a system you don't own. But the bigger picture here is that exclusives help the industry and these companies survive. Consumer loyalty is a huge part of the industry, and it's very difficult to create that without a very clear, very defined reasons that separate the companies. We remove that, and it's very possible we could see a lot of collapse.
The PS3 and xbox are functionally identical, they have no natural difference. To differentiate them sony and Microsoft buy exclusivity deals. They dont benefit the gamers on the console which recieves the exclusive, they simply hinder the gamers on the one which doesnt. Its artificial competition, thats not good for the industry as a whole or us as gamers. No one is vying for our affections they are simply making our other options worse without improving themselves. The Wii had plenty of exclusive games because the technology was different, those games would not have existed if Nintendo had produce something similar to the xbox or PS3. That is good competition, they did something different and made themsleves more attractive. How companies enter the hardware market should not be our problem, we shouldnt have to pay the price for their lack of innovation. Sony and Microsoft dont give us different things with their consoles, they just take from each others. We shouldnt support that.