Shane Henry of Level Complete explains why exclusivity is a love/hate situation in gaming today
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Fallout 4 is now available on next-gen consoles, offering 60fps gameplay and 4K resolution. But it's bad news if you claimed the game on PS Plus.
Probably won't happen for PS+ since Sony makes a clear distinction between a PS4 game and a PS5 game, unlike PC and Xbox where it is not a specific device game (It's now always an Xbox game).
So to make the PS5 game of fallout 4 available. Bethesda would need to renegotiate the complete deal with Sony.
hence why there's often only the PS4 version of the game available on PS+.
Let's hope Bethesda and Sony can arrive to term quickly.
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When it uses the actual assets of a system, rather than a gimmick, yes. An Exclusive can mean something.
Thing is no one - meaning 3rd party devs - have really bothered trying to exploit a console's hardware since the PS1.
Depends on the game. Exclusives like Halo, InFamous and Mario? Very significant.
Exclusives like Blinx, Haze and Steel Diver? Not so much.
They really do not matter at this point in the game. It's all about the console allegiances.
If Halo was on the playstation, the same people that tout Killzone now and bash Halo, would bash Killzone and tout Halo. Vice Versa
If Mario was on the Xbox and God of War was on the Wii-u, God of War would get trashed and Mario would get praised.
If The Last of Us was a Wii-u exclusive and Pikmin was on the ps3, the same ps3 crowd would praise the ps3 for the diversity and bash The Last Of Us as just another Zombie game.
It is what it is these days.
PC pretty much outclasses consoles in every way.Exclusives are all consoles have going for them so of course they matter,even in that catagory PC is pretty much equal to consoles when it comes to exclusives.
Well, I consider myself a pretty average demographic, and they certainly matter to me.
It definitely gives each platform their respective advantages.
Like, I'm sure Sony fans would have loved Halo or Gears, and Microsoft fans would have loved The Last of Us or LittleBigPlanet.
The problem with all games being cross platform is when there's such a massive audience, developers tend to be less driven to create something truly great. When they have a limited audience, they have to release something epic to absolutely sell their game to the platform consumers.
I like the idea of exclusives. It's good for competition.