Cool so at least we've established that Sony were not the only platform holders back in the day to do timed exclusivity deals
Never said or pretended otherwise. My issue with the TR SONY deal was it was in-effect a generational console lock-out deal for SEGA and Nintendo and more so the way SONY and EDIOS 1st tried to hide the deal by saying only the PS could handle the game.
Nuclear Strike & C&C were big games with C&C coming on 2 CDs so if you could get them on an N64 the same could be done for TR 2 on the N64 and while I'm not a fan of Bernie, but the USA DC launch and marketing hype for the system was some of the best I had ever seen
PC's have since the age of 3DFX been able to outperform the consoles even in the PS2 era. Play Max Payne on the PC and then play the PS2 version for a laugh, Activision didn't even try to bring Doom 3 to the super console and even the Xbox version was cut back. The likes of the 360 couldn't;t handle Half-Life 2, Quake 4. Fear. Prey at 60 fps. So I don't agree with you on that and I never cared that the PC was getting better versions of Halo, Fable, Gears, VF 2, Last Bronx and so on
There's a reason gaming PC's and consoles co-exist and that's because IMO they're aimed at different gamers. So I don't get the fuss myself.