Hey @Fnrslvr, I thought I would shift this over to a better thread for it.
A very thoughtful remark. I just don’t feel that creators “owe” their consumers anything - but of course the consumers don’t “owe” the creators anything either. I mean, KI started out on Nintendo, but no one thinks MS should release this game on WiiU or Switch. So there’s a line somewhere. Tekken was a PS exclusive for a while. Is Namco betraying PS consumers by releasing on other systems? It just seems like a complicated “code of conduct” and I’m more of a laissez faire kind of guy. People are free to disagree. And frankly, I tend to get every system eventually so exclusivity effects me less than people who are restricted in their purchases.
More to the point though:
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This. What this means is that the price of exclusivity will go up as insurance against this kind of backlash, or else developers will stop doing these deals. What’s not clear is how MS or Sony feel about these deals. Did they really get anything out of them? I think they got more than the developers did, but not much. MS and Phil Spencer, whatever else they seem to get wrong, are at least realizing that they can’t fall into the “console war” mentality because PS owners are potential future Xbox Owners and it doesn’t help you to ■■■■ those people off for no reason.
I agree with you that SFV exclusivity has been more impactful. It fractured the community and didn’t create but aggravated the competitiveness between game’s supporters in the FGC and that’s not great. Sony +SF vs MS+KI - FIGHT! is not a good thing for anybody. Keep in mind too, that in the year that RotTR was exclusive to Xbox Naughty Dog completed and released Uncharted 4. So regardless of any residual anger the game was hurt by the delay. It’s a shame too because I actually belive RotTR is a great game and I’d like to see them keep getting made.