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Fuck exclusivity
| Money bebe.
| >>314260
No. They wouldn't. Exclusives give people the incentive to buy their consoles, and it works. I'm buying a PS4 this summer because of the games it has.
| Do you realize how much money these companies pay for exclusives? Millions. Sometimes even tens of millions.
| So on top of the profit the developers make from the game, they also got that sweet sweet exclusive dosh. And also what the person above me says too.
| PS4 without Exclusives games can't exist. If was every PS4 game avaible at steam, Sony will must close PlayStation Series. Me as PC Player i understand it, and hate it. But exclusives are just one reason why have PS.
| Consoles are a one-trick pony, their only competitive edge is exclusives, without them they could never compete with PCs.
| >>314328
Well, they could still compete considering the amount of people who enjoy using consoles, but there would only be one surviving console company.
| Competition is good though
| I just find it really annoying, I don't want to spend 500$ on a ps4, online and games when I already have a PC its just kind of infuriating, I mean PC has emulators but it will be a good while before we get anything good out of ps4 emulation
| Also doesnt Microsoft have a shit ton more money than Sony? Having windows and everything? Shouldnt they have a lot of money for exclusives?
| >>314409
You just said it though, didn't you? They make Windows. That means they have to put resources into that. It's also about the developers trust in the company, and also, Microsoft just hired a bunch of studios to make exclusives for them.
| All about those numbers. There just is not as many XBox users as PlayStation users. If you want to ensure less people play your game, you partner with Microsoft, otherwise the choice is clear.
| Also apparently a lot of Japanese developers avoid XBox because there are especially low users in Japan. So Microsoft's missing out on that front since there are some big name Japanese developers
| >>314409
Microsoft is not interested in games, it's pretty clear that they view the Xbox as a multimedia platform and not as a console.
>>314368
Again, people like consoles because of exclusivity, guess what would happen if all of the PS4 exclusives suddenly appeared on PC. Same reason why XBOne is doing so bad, it has very few exclusives, even less interesting ones.
| >>314426
True. They got quite a bit of exclusives on E3, but eh. Kinda in a hard place. They'd need a pretty big name, but I don't think either side, Microsoft or the developers, want to risk that. Or maybe Microsoft does, who knows, I doubt it.
| >>314408 don't watch E3, unsubscribe from game trailer channels. Go play your PC game backlog or replay your fav games.
Some Console exclusive game are not exclusive forever. Look at Nier Automata, FF XV, Yakuza 0. They'll eventually get ported to PC because even jap game publishers can't ignore the large PC market nowadays.
Check back in 1-2 years, those exclusives that you want to play, maybe on PC by that time. Unless you are persona gurl, atlus would just say "fuck you"
| Bois, this is what capitalism means
| I was excited from the last of us or new ghost of tsushihima.. Last standing.. I wish own PS4 for this games heh xD maybe i will buy ps5 if'll be backward compatible with ps4 :3
| >>314791
Atlus is just mentally handicapped, they refuse to port their games to PC because of cultural bias. Bunch of idiots if you ask me.
| >>314989 that's actually another reason why consoles are bought too. The idea of being able to play games from past console generations will always get people's attention, while on PC if you wanted to run an old game sometimes it'll work other times it won't
| Unless you're some sort of /tech/ God who knows how to make any game work
| It is all market games to make you waste even more of your money, but I understand your pain OP I too love games and don't care about console wars or whatever. I just wanted to play games don't care about the plataform.
| >>315069 but hey, atlus is under sega, and sega seems to be embracing pc market now. Even puyo puyo tertris was treated as "buy this game so sega will bring persona and yakuza to pc", so who knows, maybe we'll see persona titles next year.
| I've been dying to play gravity rush aswell since the first one and I was hoping gravity rush 2 would get a PC release but it didn't
| >>315146
Yeah, but only a few games are "backward compatible", while anything on PC just works, may have some issues because of archaic code, but still works. I mean, here I am playing Turrican 2, a 1991 Amiga/DOS game on my PC without a hitch.
>>315275
I know, I would like to see their games on pc, but to my understanding Atlus is owned by Sega, but their IPs are still theirs so they choose what to do with it.
| >>315333 couldn't agree more with your first point. You can play old game if you have enough will. Plus you can emulate older console and handheld games.
Eh, I don't know about Atlus I feel like they'll use the "we are small game dev team" to excuse themselves from porting their game and focus on making the new spin off dancing all month games. Then again, P5 is playable using rpcs3 anyways, so at least you have a way to play their newest game until the next SMT/Persona games.
| >>ab7efe I don't understand why they don't just outsource the game to another developer to port the game because clearly they don't want or know how to do it themselves
| >>2f0f8f think you are underestimating how much money it would take to port something like P5.
And even if they did it would probably turn out shitty like some Bandai games.
Also not to mention there's probably contractual shit going on with sony which could prevent that.
Not to say that it's impossible, just that there are likely hurdles we ain't seeing.
| >>316323
They don't want to do it because of cultural reasons, in Japan PCs are seen as working and porn machines, 90% of PC games in Japan are eroges of some sort. I don't have the source right now, but an Atlus higher-up pretty much said that's the reason, they just have a hate boner for the platform.
| Better exclusives means more competition between who has the best exclusives, meaning if you have both consoles, exclusives are good. At least in theory
| These games aren't programed in Java, you know. Well, except for Minecraft. It's not like they just check a box at compile time that says "compile for XBox". Most games are designed from the get go with a specific console in mind and are optimized for that console. For smaller devs the initial ROI likely isn't enough to justify the labor of creating a cross platform game. Studios owned by MS or Sony obviously aren't going to go cross platform because exclusives sell consoles.
| I could understand exclusivity back in, like, the SNES and Genesis days... But now, there's really no excuse. Modern consoles are just limited preassembled gaming PCs with a proprietary OS anyway..
| From a marketing stand point believe it or not exclusivity racks in money. If you make a game and Sony offers a shitload and I mean a shitload of money for a contract idk even if he tempted
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| I hate it so much why can't games just be made for every platform or atleast on PC.
I want to play so many ps4 games and halo aswell but I can't because I already have a PC but I see ghost of Tsushima and spider man and persona and they all look so good and its so annoying that I'll probably never get to play them and when they bought nier automats to PC it was abysmal, I mean there were modded patches for it but to this day the fullscreen doesnt even work???