We're finally at a point where console exclusivity is finally hurting their bottom line. What a time to be alive.
Console manufacturers releasing on all platforms....games that were pulled off steam to be hosted on the publishers own launcher now back on steam where new titles from said publisher will also be released. What an insane time to be alive.
This should've happened much sooner.
For Xbox maybe. If you think that PS will ever release Gran Turismo on PC you forget that Sony are from the same Country as Nintendo.
GT, meh... I would rather play some proper racing sim instead. But Drive Club... That thing looked so life-like, so realistic. I would prefer that over GT any time. But alas, the dev team has been fired ages ago.
And poof there goes Xbox, the console. It is now just a glorified Windows PC, without Windows.
And Windows is a gimped phone/console. Gimped by MS themselves. Each version feels like it cannot be worse any further. But it does.
Good, it’s ridiculous that console exclusives were ever a thing to begin with. Never made business sense to me to cutoff potentially millions of customers.
I thought bribery in the business world was a big no-no, because that’s essentially what it is.
Bribery is one of pillars of any business. Especially that big, corporate one. The one who has bigger and longer "connections" and does this quicker, wins. Not the fair efforts, as many falsely assume.
Since a long time, since they introduced "Xbox" on Windows, in the latest, since they introduced Game Pass. Years. We are all basically using better Xboxes.
The Xbox on PC began with first DX, and did many bad during GFWL abomination. And it must extinct. MS should have make a better unified crossplatform system, ages ago, and name it properly and neutrally.
The whole console/PC wars been caused mostly by the MS themselves. They humiliate console users with worse performance and abilities/options, and humiliate the PC users, by advertising their Xbox consoles, as "superior" gaming platform. It baffles, for why it took so long for people of both camps to suffer and tolerate this attitunde.
Some of the best games were initially on console, and exclusives too. It was what sold the console and what drove innovation due to competition.
What everyone here is parading around is gonna eventually cause harm to them. Stagnation of game development has somewhat already happened and with any lack of competition, it's gonna drive it further to the ground with nothing but Medicare titles.
Yes, unpopular take. But it is true. Sony, Sega, Nintendo and Microsoft had banger games that drove sale of their systems.
There's no issue at all. There's no need in exclusivity, at all. These console maker-publishers can easilly survive as superior game makers. Just make great, interesting games, and people will prefer them over bad games. So simple.
Some of the greatest and notable console games have been made during the PS3/X360. But think, for how much bigger could be their expansion/spread among the gamers, if it could be available on PC. And I don't even mention, backlash and rejection, that was caused by the sole reasoning of accusing PC gamers of "pirating", that console makers used as an excuse to keep their games exclusivity. Thus many people lost their hope in playing those exclusive games, and went on.
And there's no way to sell the same games to the same console users, over and over again. Especially, when the console market doesn't expand, due to country restriction.
The hardware has never been more similar between the two, it's in fact the different software (APIs) which increase development time.
Yeah... nope... the console diversity, not only between each other, but between concoles and PC, has gone since AMD Jaguar. And earlier they both X360 and PS3 were based on Cell processor. And that could somewhat justify the difficulty of porting games from consoles to PC (which BTW often still were developed/made on PC, but for consoles). But as soon, as both consoles and PC got AMD x86 µarch, there were no excuse.
One of examples, that, the Frostbite and Bad Company 1, was made for X360 and PS3, but on PC. It was already done within x86 environment, but ported to consoles. Still, years later, it didn't come to PC, ever. And again, there's no excuse.
