Are “timed exclusives” over?

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When was the last time there was timed exclusive for a game on a console, I remember map packs being released on 360 before ps3 so are those days over, do companies not care anymore about who gets what first?
 
When was the last time there was timed exclusive for a game on a console, I remember map packs being released on 360 before ps3 so are those days over, do companies not care anymore about who gets what first?

Wasn't Stalker 2 just released on PS5? Black Myth Wukong released on Xbox in August.
 
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AI companies are diverting RAM away to other areas. He is literally losing his memory

edit: annnnnd right after I post that, I see this tweet from Tim Sweeney

 
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Wasn't Stalker 2 just released on PS5? Black Myth Wukong released on Xbox in August.
Exactly. We've also had plenty of timed exclusives since the PS3/360 era, and in the current gen. Silent Hill 2 Remake was PS5/PC for the first year, then came to Xbox. Death Stranding on PS4, and then PC and Xbox later. Likely going to happen with Death Stranding 2 as well. Hades 2 on PC and Switch 1/2 now, but coming to PS5 and Xbox later. The list goes on...
 
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There will be more timed exclusives, just not from platforms paying for them.
Xbox being irrelevant and Switch 2 being weak will lead to PC/PS5 timed exclusivity without paying for it.
 
I don't think they'll disappear completely. After all, from a marketing perspective, companies need to somehow move their product forward, and that's a kind of fuel for momentum. But their numbers will definitely decline. And it won't even be because people don't want to make them, but because the development cycle has increased exponentially (if we're talking about large projects, and most exclusives are usually AAA titles), and the number of games released by a single studio has also sharply decreased compared to what it was back then. (I'll remind you that there was once a time when they managed to release three Mass Effect games in a single console life cycle, now they can't even produce one.)
 
AI companies are diverting RAM away to other areas. He is literally losing his memory

edit: annnnnd right after I post that, I see this tweet from Tim Sweeney



The OP isn't sophisticated enough to have RAM installed into him. Good day, sir!
 
When was the last time there was timed exclusive for a game on a console, I remember map packs being released on 360 before ps3 so are those days over, do companies not care anymore about who gets what first?
Isn't Dispatch & Where Winds Meet most likely timed exclusives ?
 
Over for Xbox. Bayonetta series in still Nintendo exclusive. Nioh and Stellar Blade are still Playstation console exclusive.
 
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