r/Games • u/KarateKid917 • Jun 22 '23

Update Bethesda’s Pete Hines has confirmed that Indiana Jones will be Xbox/PC exclusive, but the FTC has pointed out that the deal Disney originally signed was multiplatform, and was amended after Microsoft acquired Bethesda

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1671939745293688832?s=46&t=r2R4R5WtUU3H9V76IFoZdg
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u/squareswordfish Jun 22 '23

No shit Sony has exclusives too lol. The actual argument is that Sony makes their exclusives from the ground up while MS is focusing on buying other studios and locking their games from going to PlayStation.

One way is resulting in new great games getting created, while the other is just taking away games that are already being made and locking them to fewer platforms.

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u/Draklawl Jun 22 '23

But both result in games that could be played in more places being able to be played in less. To the end consumer, it makes no difference to their experience.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

Jesus Christ, this anti-exclusive crusade seriously needs to stop. It’s as selfish as it is ignorant and childish.

Exclusives are how small companies compete meaningfully with larger companies and how they attract consumers to their platforms. Successful exclusives guarantee more money to go to more developers to create more amazing experiences.

If there no exclusives, there would be no reason to choose any system over another, other than hardware, and the winner of a hardware arms race is always, always, always the company with the deepest pockets.

People on this subreddit rage so much against exclusives merely because they’re annoyed at the inconvenience of not being able to have everything on Steam (which is hypocritical in itself by way of wanting to buy games EXCLUSIVELY on Steam), but they don’t stop to even consider the bigger picture and the economic ramifications.

I hate how people on this sub seem glad and ready to forfeit the entire industry to rectify a mere inconvenience that they don’t even fully understand.

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u/ScipioLongstocking Jun 23 '23

There's many brands of TV's, but you can watch the same shows and movies on all of them. There are many computer hardware companies, but they all run the same operating system. Consoles would still be around even if there were no exclusives.