I'm fine with certain exclusives. For now, Halo is xbox exclusive. For the longest time Final Fantasy was a playstation exclusive. Pokemon, thus far, is Nintendo exclusive. I have no problem with individual console families having their exclusive "flagship" franchises, so to speak. But when you do a cross-platform game, the only reason anyone should get something the other doesn't should be a matter of "their hardware can handle it and yours can't." When the Smackdown Vs Raw series was on Xbox, Playstation, and the Wii I had no problem with each console having a unique features. The Wii, for example, was the only one to get motion controls because, at the time, Nintendo had the only motion-control supporting console (eventually Sony ganked their idea with the PS Move and Xbox decided they could supposedly "push the envelope" by eliminating the controller entirely in exchange for having to calibrate the stupid thing every single time). That kind of exclusivity I can understand. But saying "we're going to give this console an exclusive for at least a year, maybe more, we're not telling, and we're doing this because, uh...reasons, yea, that's it. Reasons. But hey exclusives happen, right? No big deal." Sorry, it kinda is. Honestly, I hate that kind of exclusive. I also hate retailer exclusives because let's face it, even if everyone has the money to buy the same thing, not everyone has access to the same stores (and then you have the morons like 343 who say "hey, let's have 15 different retailer exclusives that would force a gamer to buy no less than 6 redundant copies of our game to get them all!"). And then there's the simple fact that if you make something exclusive to a retailer, that retailer will not necessarily have the supply to keep up with the demand. Exclusives hurt the gamers, period. It doesn't do anything to the studios, or the developers, or the console kings.
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