I can't fathom what these companies gain from this. Does anyone really buy a console just to play an exclusive game?
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I firmly believe the theory that they just straight up lost the source code and that's why we don't have even a PS5 port.
Lol. I'll wear that tin foil hat with you.
These days, probably not so much, but there was a time where console exclusives were a pretty big selling point. Halo CE sold a ton of Xboxes.
As someone over the age of 30: this was the only real reason I used to buy a console anyway. If you've bought a console for any reason other than that, I'm sorry to say you likely overpaid for a media streaming box or underpaid for a general gaming rig. I still go by this rule, only buying consoles to get at exclusives, but the current generation is relatively easily emulatable, has timed exclusivity, or in xbox's case, has basically no exclusivity. I can see arguments for the series xbox being a cheap and effective way to game these days if you only have a work laptop, but the game library has always been the selling point of a console for me.
I feel ya. I've always been a PC guy, and either patiently wait for ports or just don't play games if they never do. Bloodeborne is the only one I can remember really feeling like I'm missing out. Although Imma need them to hurry up on God of War lol.
given what sony did to helldivers2, my interest in bloodborne (despite how great of a game it looks like) is similarly non-existent. Thank you Sony for helping me not spend money.
Where am I? looks at the sidebar and sees this is a bloodborne community Whoops, sorry, just dropping by from my front page.
This is my mentality with a lot of companies. They make islt stupidly easy to not care about them and to keep my money in my accounts.onpy good thing they've done.
Isn't that pretty much the same direction all of the Japanese electronics companies have gone over the last few decades? They were on top, but didn't seem to want to push development when it came to cell phones and televisions. Now look at all the once mighty companies of the 90s.