Exclusivity is BS and does nothing but hurt consumers. Making a game and only releasing it for one year on a console... who does that help? Not you and me, that's for sure. First party apps I get. MS Game Studios, Nintendo, even Sony had produced their own games, though not as often (Legend of Dragoon was by Sony on PS1).
If a developer chooses to develop for one platform, fine, but for an OEM to go to a developer and say "we'll give you 100k if you ONLY develop for Xbox360", for example, is total bull. You bought a PS3? Oh too bad now you can't play "whatever game insert here". You traded your PS3 to get a 360 to play that game? Oh too bad you need to play this other game on our system.
Really the worst part is that we let them do it to us. Really we do.
Microsoft had a pretty hardcore exclusivity campaign going on for Japanese developers there for a while too - look at Mistwalker's "Lost Odyssey" and "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" which only released for PS3 a year after its 360 version (Lost Odyssey never released for PS3).
Back to point - if Grand Theft Auto (or any game) released for PS3 and 360 (or whatever consoles there were at the time of release) then the only factor "wooing" us towards one machine or the other would be that machine's abilities.
Case in point - the 360 beat the PS3 to market, but the original 360 was horrible. It only just now (with the new design) got good. The original couldn't even do HDMI!
So they rushed to market, made it the only "new" thing, got a bunch of exclusives on it and sold you a piece of sod. Really they did! When mine burnt out (which is what happens essentially when your 360 red rings), I sold all my 360 games and went PS3 exclusively. WHY? Because Microsoft made a flawed piece of hardware and buying a new one only rewards them for doing it. Buying a new one simply would have told them "you can sell me any type of half baked gadget you want, I'll not only buy one, I'll get two!"
Which is really sad, because the original Xbox was OUTSTANDING and despite being a complete BEAST, was hands down better than Gamecube/PS2.
So yeah, exclusives anger me.
Cheers!
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