Thread by @Nash076

The Last of Us episode one:

Woah.

Damn.

Here's a shitty element of console exclusives, by the way:

I never played The Last of Us. I didn't have a PS3 or PS4, and I hated using a controller. So instead, I watched Let's Plays and such. Experienced the whole game that way.

And now I have no interest in playing it.

Did the same for Last of Us II, and the whole Uncharted series for that matter. I couldn't justify dropping that much on a console for one game every few years.

And now that it's on TV, Sony has finally deigned to release Naughty Dog and allow a PC release.

Too late.

Sony as distributor would have gotten their cut of my $60 on each and every one of those games had they allowed PC releases at or near console release.

Instead they get fuck all.

But hey, you got your exclusivity, didn't you Sony?

It's the same mindset that convinced international TV channels to release the same program months apart depending on where you lived. The US got Doctor Who on a significant delay, and we delayed Battlestar Galactica for the UK.

By then we'd all just torrented the damn shows.

Exclusivity looks good on paper and I'm sure Sony and Naughty Dog and any host of other publishers and developers have numbers to back that up.

But I'd think it was weird if I needed a special type of TV for a given show. I probably wouldn't watch.

Same difference.

And there's even less excuse for console exclusivity now. Previous consoles used various types of processors and architectures, but guess what?

XBox One, XBox Series X? Those are x86 PCs. PS4, PS5? x86 PCs.

So exclusivity has no technical basis now. Just squeezing for profit.