The only occasion I could buy that a “console makes the exclusives” is when the costs are so high that the investors decide a $60 price tag isn’t enough.
That can be alleviated with DLC, or live service bullshit; or it can become an incentive to buy a particular console.
Then, when someone is braindead and doesn’t want a big epic award winning adventure, they’ll use that same console to play Fortnite. Thus, God of War helps sell VBucks or whatever.
It’s a weird analysis, but even though we no longer see console exclusives and it’s seen as a pro consumer move, I also think it was just a way for managers to boost one quarter’s revenue, and it wasn’t really good for the console ecosystem as a whole, especially considering how it would fund future exclusive epics.
PS5 doesn’t make the exclusives, exclusives make the PS5
The only occasion I could buy that a “console makes the exclusives” is when the costs are so high that the investors decide a $60 price tag isn’t enough.
That can be alleviated with DLC, or live service bullshit; or it can become an incentive to buy a particular console.
Then, when someone is braindead and doesn’t want a big epic award winning adventure, they’ll use that same console to play Fortnite. Thus, God of War helps sell VBucks or whatever.
It’s a weird analysis, but even though we no longer see console exclusives and it’s seen as a pro consumer move, I also think it was just a way for managers to boost one quarter’s revenue, and it wasn’t really good for the console ecosystem as a whole, especially considering how it would fund future exclusive epics.
Emulation my beloved
Emulation won’t exist for current-gen console until at least next-gen
I’m a patient gamer :)
Also, name 10 PS5 exclusives that aren’t remakes of prior generation games (since those can be upscaled and played via emulation)
Even games released by Sony (e.g. Stellar Blade) are released on Windows. The age of Sony exclusives is no more (except Astro Bot, maybe)
Btw, Xbox releases on PS (like Sea of Thieves).
I’m going to guess that since only 14 games sold over 1 million on PS5, PlayStation is mostly used as a few-games machine