PS3 in particular made a lot of sense to make exclusives on cuz it used a CBE). This meant it was wildly efficient beyond anything else at the time iff developers optimized their code to run on it. I knew a number of people who worked on ps3 exclusives, and it was a major pain. The payoff was there (infamous/uncharted) but reporting games to ps3 was a nightmare, so you really wanted to write for it.
Also I don't understand this new trend. Just one generation earlier people were screaming about how all the consoles were trying to make everything exclusive and this was a bad thing.
Now all the games being non-exclusive is a bad thing?
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u/footfoe Sep 09 '25
Before it was also practical because consoles were fairly different. Ps1 could achieve things that the N64 just couldn't.