9 Biggest Necessities For The Next Generation Of Consoles
7. Dissolve Exclusives
Get rid of exclusives. They are anti-consumer and are just tedious. Having to pick your console based on what games you want to play is tiresome. It doesn't encourage brand loyalty, it creates a divide.
It is impossible for this to happen as it would cause one of the two consoles to suffer incredibly. Fundamentally, exclusives are what drive a purchase of a particular console. No one cares about the hardware enough to jump ship, so exclusives are what sell a console. Someone should drop Microsoft the memo, but that's beside the point.
Exclusives are incredibly anti-consumer and continue to push this 'us vs them' mentality that has been prevalent in gaming for far too long. Restricting the games that people can play simply for their choice of which black piece of plastic they bought is incredibly frustrating.
Keep timed exclusivity if you must, but just let players play games and stop funnelling people into two different camps.