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Exclusives are cancer. Computers should be able to compute everything. Nintendo's/console strategy is an absolute travesty for human progress, like almost all capitalist strategy.
I mean, yeah, but at the same time, a Nintendo game being a Nintendo exclusive product doesn’t seem that weird to me. If it was an external studio, sure. But it’s the same company. I agree that it’s annoying, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable tactic if you control the vertical and you actually DO build good hardware and software that play well together, and you want to leverage the multiplicative effect there.
Sure, I'm not unreasonable. I hate against exclusives, because I'm sure it'd be better without them, but Nintendo is not entirely terrible. It's never completely black & white.
I hate Nintendo exclusives because i hate Nintendos hardware. I do love their software, so i emulate it.
I get why they need exclusives, if they want to keep making consoles instead of turning into SEGA they need to give peeps a reason to buy their console, which since the wii (?) has had a deliberate focus on less powerful hardware. If they didn't have those N exclusives those games would look better on their competitor's systems.
Like i said, i love their games, can't stress that enough. I hate, hate, HATE their hardware tho. I've refused to buy Nintendo stuff since i felt burned by n64s crap analog sticks (i hold a mean grudge haha) and the only way Nintendo would get my hard fought-stretched-to-hell $ is if they sold pc copies of their games.
I wish they'd consider doing that (after a few years of exclusivity even, i'm a patientgamer) but i don't think they ever will :(