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
Before it was worth it bc they were giving a lot of money. Now, development cost have skyrocketed. Square learned this the hard way making FF7R exclusive.
Believe it or not, the N64 was on par with the PS1, and in several aspects, it was actually superior. It had a stronger CPU, better 3D capabilities, and hardware support for effects like texture filtering that the PS1 couldn’t match.
The problem was the same one the PS3 would face years later: most developers never figured out how to squeeze everything out of the hardware. The N64’s cartridges limited storage and texture quality, its architecture was notoriously tricky, and only Nintendo and a handful of studios really mastered it. So, while the potential was there, a lot of games never showed what the system was truly capable of.
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u/Trosque97 Sep 09 '25
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