• Omega@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      I have zero problem with consoles investing in new IPs and funding high budget games as console sellers.

      But I don’t like these buyouts or pointless exclusives. I don’t know why there are still exclusive Final Fantasy games.

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        21 days ago

        Because FF games are expensive to make and going exclusive, even just temporary, is an easy way for Square to get some of that investment back before the game is even released. It basically lowers the risk of creating such a massive AAA game.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      No…in the old days it made each console feel different. There might be SOME overlap between the SNES and the Genesis, but for the most part they’re entirely different libraries.

      But if you’re trying to have console wars on any generation since the PS3, then it’s just stupid. It’s like 90% shared libraries, so the few exclusives don’t mean shit. There’s no personality to the consoles anymore.

      Except Nintendo. Nintendo does weird things on their own path.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        In the old days consoles were so wildly different in their architecture that you’d pretty much have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch to port. Now gaming engines can output for different systems in just a few clicks