• Kichae
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    112 years ago

    Sony set the markt rules with their 3rd-party exclusives

    This is Nintendo erasure.

    • Rayspekt
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      32 years ago

      Which 3rd party exclusives are they sitting on except Bayonetta 2/3? I can’t remember that many.

      Nintendo has the same dumb practices, but they do it with their own IPs, which is a little less annyoing. Also they aren’t the main player like Sony has been for the last two decades. They just own the Mario-and-Zelda-tablet.

      • Kichae
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        12 years ago

        Which 3rd party exclusives are they sitting on except Bayonetta 2/3?

        Few today, but who set the market rules? They were set in the late 80s.

        • ampersandrew
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          12 years ago

          In the 80s and 90s, third party exclusives were a necessity because you were making games for sets of hardware that were capable of dramatically different things.

          • @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
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            12 years ago

            No no they were not and in addition to that nintendo had contracts that outright forbade developers from working on other systems period.

            • ampersandrew
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              12 years ago

              They were capable of dramatically different things. Perhaps they also had those contracts, but Genesis couldn’t do mode 7, and the sounds that came out of the SNES were dramatically different. There were cases where a game would come out on each system under the same name but developed by two different companies with two completely different designs, because their capabilities were so different.