10 Video Game Exclusives You NEVER Got Over Not Playing

Although they’re not as common today as they were during prior generations, video game exclusives continue to be a double-edged sword for gaming fans the world over.

On the one hand, they make certain audiences feel appreciated and validated for choosing the “correct” console and having the means to purchase every bonus they can. At the same time, they allow for extensive bragging rights and lighthearted debates between friends.

However, they can also be extremely prohibitive and distasteful due to their high costs and/or illogical restrictiveness, punishing people who can’t afford every bell and whistle or who happen to buy the “wrong” gaming system. This can also lead to a general feeling of divisiveness, because even though the console wars aren't as big as they once were, you don't have to search far and wide to find people vigorously batting for their chosen corporate overlords.

Either way, there are certain exclusives that plenty of people have never gotten over not playing, and we’ve rounded up 10 of the most painful examples of them for this list.

Whether they’re console-specific features and characters, or entire titles that never went cross-platform (and have since been lost to time), it still hurts to think about being denied these amazing exclusives several years – or even decades – later.

So, get some tissues ready and proceed with caution.

Video game exclusives are sufficiently distressing when they’re limited to specific consoles, but they’re exponentially more hurtful when they’re no longer available period. Such is the case with 2014’s exceptional P.T., a short-lived playable teaser for a planned new entry in psychological horror series Silent Hill (called Silent Hills).

Co-directed by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, the first-person experience had the player walk around a suburban house in a continuous loop (with each go-round getting more unnerving as grotesque secrets and subtle environmental and auditory changes appear).

All the while, the mysterious protagonist is stalked by a ghost named Lisa who – it turns out – walks behind you the entire time! If the player solves all the puzzles and escapes, they’re rewarded with an enticing teaser for Silent Hills (starring Norman Reedus at the peak of his Walking Dead-fuelled popularity).

Initially, the award-winning P.T. was only obtainable on the PlayStation 4 (where it was downloaded over a million times). What’s more, Silent Hills was soon canceled because of Kojima’s separation from Konami, leading Sony to remove P.T. from the PlayStation Network in April of 2015, and for anyone with it downloaded to their console able to profit spectacularly via eBay.

So, if you don’t have a PS4 with P.T. already installed, you’ll probably never be able to play it.