@ChaseIsSavage You keep using the road being closed unless you buy a specific car, like it’s not closed you can try and take your Prius up a back mountain road good luck, just like you can buy god of war while owning an Xbox good luck……
@ChaseIsSavage So again if a game is built around specific engines and architectures that’s not a permission issue, a whole new game some times has to be built to work on other platforms
@red_skyze That’s the difference you keep skipping: liking your hardware is fine. Cheering for restricted access because it makes your hardware feel more valuable is the weird part.
@ChaseIsSavage It doesn’t make it bad for them either whatever gaming hardware they have they have access to plenty of games for, goes back to my 4-runner analogy, it’s not bad that consumers have to purchase multiple pieces of hardware, so if I want better gas I buy a sedan, or a 4-runner….
@ChaseIsSavage Because it’s deliberate for a reason, of which you’ve acknowledged in the same sentence, the incentive of exclusivity to purchase hardware is not anti consumer no matter how much it hurts your feelings
@ChaseIsSavage So resources and time is deliberate now 😂 gee I wonder why, again you acknowledge the valid reasons of exclusivity but hyper focus on just one singular aspect of it as if it’s anti consumer to choose not to port…..
@ChaseIsSavage You’re locked out of a game because you have to buy hardware literally applies to anything if you don’t have the necessary equipment or hardware for it, if I have zero hardware I’m locked out of gaming right? You have to buy something!!! Everyone is locked out until they buy a VR
@ChaseIsSavage You’re not actually locked out, and it’s not anti consumer to actively choose not to make a port for every platform, just because your hardware is capable of running a game doesn’t require a company to make a port for you, it’s not evil if that so happens to benefit that platform
@ChaseIsSavage And porting for different hardware and input controls isn’t part of capabilities? Why because software isn’t physical? The effort and resources are a straight comparison to physical capabilities
@ChaseIsSavage Again this just goes back to use cases, you wanna drive through the snow or the back country mountains choose your vehicle wisely youre not locked out of anything, you gotta buy another box buy another box, you wanna drive through snow by a 4-runner, you wanna commute buy a sedan
@ChaseIsSavage You gotta spend money to play games who would’ve thunk it….. if I’m on PlayStation and I get exclusive games how is that not good for me? But bad that my Xbox buddy gets his own exclusive games and our Nintendo buddy getting their own exclusive games????
@ChaseIsSavage Whose decision is that? The consumers? Is it yours? Is it the consumer’s responsibility to make companies port games? Exclusivity not benefiting all consumers is no one’s responsibility
@ChaseIsSavage How is a business decision to choose not to port due to resources not the same thing? That by definition is a business decision??? Am I crazy here?
@ChaseIsSavage Doesn’t make it anti consumer either, and the “leverage” is so forced that you believe it’s anti consumer to have to buy hardware to play games….