It's weird seeing exclusives proliferate

[the-pi-guy]

During the PS2 era and earlier, there was a huge proliferation of timed and full exclusives. Games like Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, GTA were either timed or permanent exclusives for PlayStation.

During the PS3 era, a lot of these exclusives would start to be released on both Xbox 360 and PS3.  And this continued through the PS4 era.  It seems like a majority of exclusives were not third party, but were at least published by first party companies (if not developed in-house).  

Kingdom Hearts 3, FFXV were both launched on Xbox One.  

And it felt like that was going to be the new status quo.

But instead both MS and Sony are going hardcore on console exclusives. There's less worry about launching on PC, but there seem to be trending towards more exclusives and faster than ever before  

[Legend]

Yeah makes me think of mid gen when people were against exclusives because Microsoft couldn't compete. This is a small thread but you don't see discussions like this nowadays: "Exclusives are bad for the industry. All games should be on all platforms" : gaming

[the-pi-guy]

Would be ironic though if exclusives started disappearing as first parties start moving towards software ecosystems instead of hardware ones.

Kind of funny seeing Sony put games on Switch/Xbox.
And MS will be putting more games on PS/Switch.