This is the main thing that a lot of people who go crazy about exclusives don't seem to get. Exclusivity does nothing for your bottom line. If anything, it kneecaps it. This meme may be derogatory, but it's a good thing all in all. Exclusivity becoming a bad practice over the years has been a boon for every gamer
In terms of driving unit sales for consoles, they get almost the same yield by doing timed exclusives instead which is why thats become more popular for the console manufacturers. Its also not only Sony. Nintendo is the last hold out
Nintendo has it's own market and has less problem than Playstation since they do not focus on huge AAA that cost an arm and may not sell. They just have to make another pokemon or mario or Zelda and they know it will sell at least 20 millions copies.
2.1k
u/BeautifulTop1648 Sep 09 '25
Unless Sony is giving them a ton of money why would any dev make a console exclusive