i know you like to keep bringing up the exclusives don't matter narrative but it is not definitive.
I never said it was definitive and I never said that exclusives don't matter at all. I simply said that most console gamers don't care about games being available on PC since many of them don't play games on PC.
Most console gamers simply want good, popular games to play -- whether exclusive or not.
exclusives and friends circle drive what system you pick up. i am not sure how all this somehow turned into exclusives don't matter.
I wouldn't put exclusives on the same level as friends circle. Current gen sales back up the fact that people simply want to play big name games.
There definitely are people who chose one console over the other due to exclusives this gen but they aren't the majority. With this in mind, I don't see how more games coming to PC (a gaming platform that most console gamers don't care much about) hurts in anyway. If the game is still an exclusive in the console space, then many console gamers will still view it as a (true) exclusive.
The games that are PS4 and PC only wouldn't significantly change PS4 sales if those games turned PS4 only (and vice versa). Same is true with this recent move with Xbox games.
yes for new ip or mid tier games it is beneficial to include PC to make sure it survives and has a bright future but bringing games like uncharted or halo over would affect console sales, there are a lot of pc players with consoles just like me and my friends and they will stop buying these consoles if everything starts coming to pc. I mean i would just get a beefed up pc and call it a day. i think there is more overlap between console and pc than you give credit for.
I doubt it considering the fact that third party multiplats are the top selling games on consoles with many of these games being available on PC anyway.
Why would so many people play third party games on a console (with worse quality) if many had acceptable gaming PCs? It just doesn't add up.