NeoGAF – what counts as an "exclusive" to you?

What counts as an exclusive to YOU?

  • Only on the ONE system

  • On one console + PC/mobile

  • On multiple consoles within the same family (PS4/PS5, Switch/Switch 2)

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LakeOf9

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The meaning and definition of the term exclusive has changed dramatically in the industry over the years. With the traditional model of exclusivity seemingly coming to an end for most of the industry, I wanted to ask GAF what they define an exclusive as. So GAF - what counts as an exclusive to you?
 
You don't have it as an option but I vote on the same platform.

For example on any Nintendo platform (switch 1/2), any Sony platform (ps4/5) or and Xbox platform (series/pc app).
 
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS said:
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Baemono said:
Less nowadays. Like all the Switch exclusives are no longer exclusives just because Switch 2 is retrocompatible, doesn't make sense anymore
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Can you play Nintendo games on PS5 or Xbox? No which makes it exclusive.

You only play Nintendo games on Nintendo systems.
 
There are multiple tiers to them:
  • [Console Brand] Exclusive -- the purest form of exclusivity, regardless if it is cross-gen with the previous generation of the same ecosystem.
    Some examples: Demon's Souls (PS5), Gran Turismo 7 (PS4/PS5)
  • [Console Brand] Console Exclusive -- a game that's made available only on consoles of a certain brand, as well as on PC.
    Some examples: Street Fighter V (PS4/PC), Stellar Blade (PS5/PC)
  • [Console Brand] Timed Exclusive -- a third-party title of which a console brand acquires either exclusivity or console exclusivity for a certain time period.
    Some examples: Final Fantasy XVI (PS5), Silent Hill 2 (PS5/PC)
Depending on the choices being made, a game can go from Exclusive status to Console Exclusive, such as it was the case when PlayStation began to release their games on Steam, or even as far as multiplatform, as happened recently with Helldivers II.
 
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An exclusive is only on one system/platform.

A console exclusive is on one console but is also available on another platform not in direct competition with the original console. "Console Exclusive" is a qualifier invented to help fanboys cope with the idea that their games are no longer exclusive.

How is this hard?
 
On a family of systems, since we live in the age of remasters, and if consoles are gonna go with generic x86/arm boxes...they better be backwards compatible from hear on out.

As soon as we got "console exclusive" DLC around the later half of the 360 gen, the concept of exclusive has been stretched to the point of being silly though.
 
Example - Playstation Exclusive =
Only available on Playstation platforms.
Not sure where this notion of if it's available on PS4 & PS5 it's not exclusive comes from
it being exclusively available on PS5 is only (and should only be) because it simply not possible on last gen consoles.
So it a technical reason, TLOUPT1 is example of a game only being available on PS5 & PC but not PS4 despite being easily possible.
But I wouldn't call TLOUPT1 a Playstation Exclusive because it's available on PC too.
A exclusive is exactly what the word means.
limited to a specific platform and not shared with others.
 
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GAF is really obsessed with this topic.

Fuck exclusives. Most of the market couldn't give a shit about exclusive games anymore.

The only franchises that people wait new consoles for are Nintendo's. And maybe Gran Turismo. The rest is either gone multiplat, or has been driven into the ground to irrelevancy by greed and incompetence (Halo and many, many others).

At the end of the day it matters more where your friends and purchases are. And that's why the current landscape is even more stupid.

Why do we have subscriptions, digital only shit, and so on? To lock consumers into what they have the audacity to call "ecosystem". Why? Because popular games are everywhere.
 
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Before I would have said the first option.
But these days with consoles sticking around for longer and how scalable a lot of engines are I would argue the third option is more representative of what I consider to be an exclusive.
 
Depends what I'm describing. "Exclusive" is meaningless without context. If somebody said "PS5 exclusive" then that is referring to one console (like Astrobot). If somebody said "console exclusive" then that is a little more ambiguous, do they mean exclusive to consoles (like GTA6) or exclusive to a specific console like PS5 but also available on PC (like Stellar blade). Using the word for some platform warring is pointless most of the time though. All I know is that more often than not as a PS5/PC user I can play most games so I don't give it much thought. When things are exclusive to a platform I don't own then that is the only meaning of the word that has any importance to me personally whether that is Switch 2 or whatever. It doesn't matter how people try and catagorise stuff for platform wars. If it's a platform I need to own to play then I consider it "exclusive" to the platform I have interest in to play it, it doesn't matter if it's crossgen or what.
 
Pretty obvious to me - when the item is exclusive to one console. Something could also be considered an exclusive of a sort of it's only on the "family of systems", but that's really a recent scenario that isn't historically relevant.
 
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You can release your game in other platforms and remain exclusive if they are not competing with you, which is impossible but for things like "we've put Doom on a Predictor".
 
just "exclusive" = released on just one platform, that's for example Dota 2 or Bloodborne
"console exclusive" = 1 console + PC, that's for example The Witcher 2
"nintendo exclusive" (or so) = family of systems of 1 manufacturer, that's for example Wind Waker (GCN + Wii U remaster)
 
Exclusive = Game is limited to one platform family / brand (Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, Steam, EGS, etc). It does not matter if the game is available across multiple generations of console from the same brand. I would still consider games released for both PS4 / PS5 exclusive as long as they're Playstation only.

Console Exclusive = Same thing as above + PC release. Game is only available for one family of consoles + PC.
 
it has to be First Party or Second party if previously shown for other consoles and then money hated, exclusively show at the respective showcase, exclusive marketing, when gameplay shown, the small letters must said "Running on an specific hardware". 🤔..... In short:

it must pissed off certain people while others cheer the game up even if it is trash.
 
People use it in two different ways: "platform exclusive" (appears on only a single platform) or "console exclusive" (appears only on a single console).

I use it to mean the latter, "console exclusive." That's because I am a console player. I am accustomed to decades of console wars focused on lists of console exclusives. In that context, whether something appears on PC is not particularly relevant. It's about which games are exclusive to one console rather than the other. I acknowledge that "platform exclusive" is a reasonable way to think about "exclusives," but I think of exclusives in terms of console exclusivity.
 
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