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Actually, Afzal, think of it this way - it's more about trying to find a 'real' reason to own your platform of choice.

Say, for example, if I own an Xbox 360 and I see that every single game in the console's library is also available for the PC (and that too with the obvious graphical enhancements), I'm going to feel like I could've done without owning the console. However, games like Gears 2, Forza 3, and Alan Wake reassure that I'm getting my money's worth. That I just had to get the Xbox 360 because so and so games are only available for it.

Exclusivity is the easiest means of building long-term brand associations with your favorite platform. What's the first franchise that comes to mind when you think of the Xbox brand? Halo, right? Would it still hold true if Halo 3 and ODST were also available for the PC?

But if there were PC versions, you would've saved money by not buying the X360

long-term brand associations are not beneficial any customer in any way (in this case), they are only beneficial to the company.

If you could've done without the console, wouldn't it be better? Why would you want to spend 25k? Wouldn't you have preferred the game to be multi-platform if you didn't have the console and didn't want to spend money buying it?

Each to their own Afzal. I find fanboy conversations entertaining not offensive..whats th epoint in taking offense if someone says bad about a dumb cubical gadget sitting on my table top.I wonder how people take that as an excuse to swear at each other.Fan boy stand offs are meant to be fun and entertaining,not a death match.
You are right about "Divide and rule" tactics,but thats how the game and console industry makes money and is more of a business tactic than anything else.
I am happy with the most grphically advanced game "Crysis" being PC exclusive.

Sorry Afzal but you're wrong on the collusion count. No one wants to share, specially not in this industry. Its all about the moolah and numerous other factors. Alan Wake is eventually gonna make it to PC but this news alone must have sold 100K copies, not primarily because people are fanboys but because the cancellation makes fence-sitters think they're making a mistake and Alan Wake is a good game (why else would there be this furore).

As for the moolah, MS pays remedey to make exclusive game, win-win. remedy gets free press time, concessional royalty rates etc and MS gets royalty off the game plus live subscription and consoles.

[QUOTE=radd;bt703]Sorry Afzal but you're wrong on the collusion count. No one wants to share, specially not in this industry. Its all about the moolah and numerous other factors. Alan Wake is eventually gonna make it to PC but this news alone must have sold 100K copies, not primarily because people are fanboys but because the cancellation makes fence-sitters think they're making a mistake and Alan Wake is a good game (why else would there be this furore).

As for the moolah, MS pays remedey to make exclusive game, win-win. remedy gets free press time, concessional royalty rates etc and MS gets royalty off the game plus live subscription and consoles.[/QUOTE]hmm, so they're banking on exclusivity for sales, and later they'll release for PC...much like AC2. PC gamers still get left out this way too. Yes MS would pay the creator to make exclusive games in some way...but in the end, keeping financial problems aside, it would still be better if a game is multi-platform than an exclusive. But those are kinda lucrative deals due to which exclusivity happens. This might actually cause a better quality game...but then again, is it bigger than more people having access to it?