Personally, I can't think of anything better. With the move to digital downloads and streaming content, the physical production costs of developing an exclusive title are seriously reduced, so extending those exclusive titles to other platforms and expanding the market for your games just makes financial sense.ĭoes that mean that we could very well see Kratos coming to the Xbox and Master Chief coming to the PlayStation anytime soon? Five years ago we'd have laughed that out of the room, but now? It might not happen in time for Halo Infinite, but it looks like its simply inevitable in the long run. After loosening up their grips on exclusivity and allowing cross-play servers between various platforms, it's unfathomable that Microsoft and Sony would suddenly retreat back into their walled gardens. What does this mean going forward? Honestly, the walls have been breached. And with the Xbox Series X release of long-time Sony exclusive MLB: The Show, as well as its Day-One launch on Xbox Game Pass, we're even seeing an in-house, first-party Sony developer making a game for a rival console. With several PlayStation exclusive titles making their way to PC like Death Stranding, Days Gone, and Horizon Zero Dawn, the best titles on Sony's flagship consoles are becoming some of the best PC games going. I'm sure there are plenty of old Sega Genesis/MegaDrive veterans out there who will never know the sublime beauty of Final Fantasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III in North America), and that's a tragedy.įortunately, those old divisions seem to be breaking down. Not every family was able to buy every console that came out in a generation, and it always sucked that many of us ultimately had to pick a side.īecause Final Fantasy games were Nintendo and then PlayStation exclusive titles, that is where my family's money went growing up, which means I missed out on a lot of great Sega and Xbox titles. Whether it was the formative years of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 for many or even further back to the Sega-Nintendo fight in the early 1990s, console exclusivity has always hurt gamers who got locked out of incredible experiences. Games are becoming more platform agnostic with cross-play and PC ports, a trend that has us excited with even more developments in recent months.

But like so many games, other titles wanted a piece of that juicy action. With brutal combat, incredible combos, and enough monsters to slice, dice, and serve on rice, these games gave new meaning to the term hack-and-slash. Opinion: more please (and bring us Bloodborne, you cowards!) &0183 &32 The God of War series defined what the action genre was capable of back in the days of the PlayStation 2.

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