• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sadly I'll never get to enjoy it, I'm not gonna buy an Xbox just to play it. Really really stupid that we're still doing exclusive games in 2023. I'm a PlayStation user literally wanting to give Bethesda my money, but they don't want it.

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      1 year ago

      Just think of it as a PC game that happens to also have an Xbox release holding it back for some reason.

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      1 year ago

      As a PS person myself I don't feel like we have the right to complain about exclusives! I'm pretty sure Sony has had way more than Xbox ever had and I am fine with it. In today's market the only thing a console may have as an upper hand is an exclusive game. At least with Xbox games these days you immediately have the option to play on PC, which is what I do if I really want to play one, unlike Sony which has just started doing pc for exclusives but you are going to wait 1 or 2 years before it drops.

      I like buying a PS every generation because I know it will have the best exclusives to play just like I have a switch because it's the only place to play a Nintendo game. If they didn't have those games why would anyone even bother buying a console at all? If they all shared the same games 100% it would be a coin flip to whatever platform you invest in at that point.

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        1 year ago

        Since the starfield exclusivity thing started, this point has always stuck with me: PlayStation owners buy PlayStation because of the expectation that they will get the best exclusives (and even most other games first). It was so bizarre to see them so brazenly attack Xbox over making starfield exclusive. They couldn't see that they were beneficiaries of these same tactics for so long that they just accepted it as "the way it is." Logically, why would you ever buy an Xbox if PlayStation gets better exclusives and the other great games first? No one should be surprised when TES6 is Xbox/PC exclusive.

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          1 year ago

          You can see how those two things are a little different though, right?

          PlayStation buys smaller studios, usually that they have history with, and helps them to build games from the ground up - even new IP’s.

          Microsoft bought a major studio that had a game near completion, a game that the studio fully intended on releasing on all platforms, and Microsoft exclusified it.

          To be clear, I actually don’t like exclusives at all. But there’s still clearly a difference here, and I can understand where people are coming from when they criticize Microsoft and not Sony.

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            1 year ago

            You can see how those two things are a little different though, right?

            No, not really. Contrary to your point, Bethesda has worked quite closely with Xbox a number of times (especially back in the oblivion days) and Sony has never been interested in Bethesda's ideas about games (support for Skyrim was abysmal on PlayStation and mods on PS3/4 were a joke).

            Is MS a huge jerk for yanking starfield out of the hands of the majority of console gamers? Yeah totally, but Sony is also a huge jerk (and has been) for a long time when it comes to negotiating exclusivity deals, which they have been able to do because they are the number 1 console. It's really not hard to extrapolate how much leverage Sony has over the industry when you see that they have sold 75% more consoles than xbox (35 vs 20 million units sold PS5/XS). I believe the previous gen was even worse. The outcry over this would have been much smaller if the roles were reversed, because it would have just been business as usual for every gamer.

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            I don't understand the difference honestly. Investment is investment. I think it's stupid to do exclusives, but if one is going to build a walled garden then the other needs one too.

            I'm PC only so I don't give a fuck. I can emulate a Switch and eventually I'll be able to emulate a PS5. If they want exclusives, they don't want my money. If they stop building walled gardens then great.

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              I think it's stupid to do exclusives, but if one is going to build a walled garden then the other needs one too.

              I agree, but how you go about that is important imo. I’m on PC too, so let me use a better example that might hit closer to home.

              Epic games. Their use of exclusives has garnered more hate then almost any other storefront in the pc space. But it’s not the exclusives in and of themselves - after all, people never cared when Fortnite didn’t come to Steam. Similarly, nobody lost their minds when The Sims was exclusive to Origin, or Assassins Creed to Uplay.

              The difference between these games, as opposed to other Epic exclusives, is that these games were built by these companies from the ground up. Nobody cares if Fortnite is an Epic exclusive because Epic made that game - it’s their right to keep it to themselves. The same goes for the Sims with EA, and Assassins Creed with Ubisoft.

              It’s only when Epic snatches nearly completed games that they had nothing to do with, that people get angry. So in this way, Microsoft is the Epic games of the console scene, while Sony is more akin to Ubisoft or something.

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      And I'm not going to buy a Playstation just to play The Last of Us, Spiderman, Detroit: Become Human or any of the other games Sony refuses to sell Xbox users.

      I'd love to play those games but Sony just doesn't want my money.

      I'm not going to whine about it either though.

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      1 year ago

      Same. Can’t imagine the logic behind denying a product to a console that outsells yours 2:1. It’s fucking dumb.

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        Of course they do, games are bloodline of a console and you think M$ gonna give a game made by it to a direct competitor? It's like Apple allow other phone OEMs to use iOS

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          I think it’s dumb to deny themselves the fuckton of money that PlayStation users would have paid to buy the game, and that I would guarantee you that they didn’t sell even close to enough consoles to make up for it considering it’s a pretty shit game to begin with.

          They could have recouped some of their money from it, but no- it’s a flop now.

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            Most of the "sale" of this game comes from xbox pass and that's enough for M$. Xbox is already being outsold so giving Sony more advantage for a little recoup is stupid strategy.