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0 pointsapatheticonion4y ago0 comments

I'm with you on the benefits, but for those of us who successfully use a PC as a TV console, console exclusives are a real kick in the teeth.

Bloodborne was released in 2013 and I am still waiting to play it.

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jowsie4y ago

It runs better on emulator than it does Playstation, there are 60fps mods :)

apatheticonionOP4y ago

There's a PS4 emulator that is capable of Bloodborne? :o

maccard4y ago

> console exclusives are a real kick in the teeth.

Console exclusives are often funded by manufacturers, so the game may not exist without the console.

apatheticonionOP4y ago

I am naive to the economics of it but I imagine they could also choose to act as publishers where they take a cut of sales on all platforms. I believe their objective is to entice people to buy the console on the basis that it has better games than the competition - not all together bad - but as someone who likes video games I would like them to find another way to compete.

ThatPlayer4y ago

To me the issue is that games aren't required to release on all consoles. Nor should they be required to be, because that goes against the whole idea of free market competition: if all games are required to be released on Xbox, what is stopping Xbox from hiking up their prices? Paying developers for exclusives is the opposite and is competition.

"If you build it they will come", doesn't work. Look at the PS Vita, which very quickly stopped getting Sony support for games and languished. It shouldn't be up to all game developers to release on Vita, it is up to Sony to attract developers.

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jowsie4y ago

It runs better on emulator than it does Playstation, there are 60fps mods :)

apatheticonionOP4y ago

There's a PS4 emulator that is capable of Bloodborne? :o

maccard4y ago

> console exclusives are a real kick in the teeth.

Console exclusives are often funded by manufacturers, so the game may not exist without the console.

apatheticonionOP4y ago

ThatPlayer4y ago

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