Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation (www.theverge.com)

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[-] zalack@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Console exclusives are anti consumer and it should be illegal for console makers to offer any incentive to developers -- including studios they own -- to make a game exclusive.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 6 points 1 year ago

So Zelda would end up on Xbox and Playstation? What a world that would be...

[-] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I think developers could still make exclusives, but consoles couldn’t buy up exclusive rights like that. At least that’s how I interpreted the other comment.

[-] Pechente@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it’s not that easy. Nintendo for example makes many games that use features that are exclusive to their console and porting them over to other consoles would make them so so much worse. Not all games are portable to anything.

[-] zalack@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying it should be illegal to release games for only one console. Obviously not every studio is going to have the bandwidth to develop for every platform, and some games will use special features of some systems.

What I'm saying is that it should be illegal for console makers to give any special incentives or preference to developers to do so artificially.

[-] Kaldo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Every time we ship a game on PlayStation... Sony captures 30 percent of the revenue that we do on their platform and then they use that money among other revenue that they have to do things to try to reduce Xbox’s survival on the market.

I dunno how to feel about agreeing with Phil Spencer about something but this seems like a pretty good point