What are your thoughts on timed exclusive?

We have seen Star Ocean, GTA4: Episodes from Liberty City and MW2 Stimulus map pack been out on the 360 first.

As lemming, do you feel like MS is doing a good job spending your money by securing these timed exclusive titles?

As cow, do you feel pissed about it, do you think this is a cheap marketing strategy or you just don't care because eventually it will come out on your system?

What are your thoughts?

so far i havent really wanted any timed exclusives that desperately that i have been bothered by it.

From a purely business stand point, timed exclusives work. Many people want to "keep up with the jones'" or what not, therefore say billy and jimmy have different consoles, billy gets an amazing game, jimmy will want it now, he will not want to wait a year for it, therefore jimmy will get pushed towards buying the machine it is on. Timed exclusives work very well whether you like it or not.

I rather have time-exclusivess than exclusives.

From a purely business stand point, timed exclusives work. Many people want to "keep up with the jones'" or what not, therefore say billy and jimmy have different consoles, billy gets an amazing game, jimmy will want it now, he will not want to wait a year for it, therefore jimmy will get pushed towards buying the machine it is on. Timed exclusives work very well whether you like it or not.

Andrew_Xavier

hmm... that's a good point, sad but true.

pretty unfair, just about the moneyKevinButlerVP

i play games not exclusives so it really doesn't bother me

so far no xbox 360 exclusive (timed or not) was enough to convince me into a console purchase , i own a wii & ps3

Annoying is the word that pops up in my mind.

It's completely useless.

annoying,pointless, and pisses off a portion of the games userbase or target market if they dont have x console yet have to wait for the same game with little to no improvement.

The way I see it is exclusives > timed exclusives > multiplatform.

Basically anything to make the the quality of the game better. At least with timed exclusives we know developers won't sacrifice their vision in order to make the game equal on both systems and taking advantage of neither. Good example would be RE4.

owning all the systems it's never really bothered me

Actually a good question. I don't like them, I find them pointless.

I'm not sure GTA are good examples, because i'm not sure they were intended to be multiplat, but Chinatown wars and Episodes sold so poorly they had to.

I truly don't see the point in timed exclusives. I can wait for what I want.Cujo31

[QUOTE="Cujo31"]I truly don't see the point in timed exclusives. I can wait for what I want.HarlockJC

It's a business tactic, and it works for them and generally for me as well.

[QUOTE="HarlockJC"][QUOTE="Cujo31"]I truly don't see the point in timed exclusives. I can wait for what I want.Cujo31

Annoying is the word that pops up in my mind.

It's completely useless.

KungfuKitten

They are good to get people hyped up, good for companies to shift some units, but I think it is pretty misleading. It's up to us to stay informed and make educated guesses about what is a true exclusive and what is merely timed. In the end it doesn't really matter much unless you get duped into buying a console for one game, but if you do that, there's nobody to blame but yourself.Hahadouken

Hmmm yea I kinda pissed off not knowing that Star Ocean would come for PS3, I got it for the 360 on day 1 and it came with 3 discs and thicker box, kinda dissapointing, I would wait for the PS3 if I knew it.

Pointless? Anoying?Sollet

They are good to get people hyped up, good for companies to shift some units, but I think it is pretty misleading. It's up to us to stay informed and make educated guesses about what is a true exclusive and what is merely timed. In the end it doesn't really matter much unless you get duped into buying a console for one game, but if you do that, there's nobody to blame but yourself.Hahadouken

It is not good for people with one system and their favorite game is on another system so they buy the other system and then the game gets announced for their original system 6 months later. Really pisses some people off. Not a good way to treat your fan base.

We have seen Star Ocean, GTA4: Episodes from Liberty City and MW2 Stimulus map pack been out on the 360 first.

As lemming, do you feel like MS is doing a good job spending your money by securing these timed exclusive titles?

As cow, do you feel pissed about it, do you think this is a cheap marketing strategy or you just don't care because eventually it will come out on your system?

What are your thoughts?

EZs

Poor from MS's customers stand point, as MS is spending their gaming budget on securing timed exclusivity of content they were going to get anyway rather than spending it on new IPs. In doing this, MS's customers are actually getting fewergames.