FFXVI only PS5?

[Raven2014]

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I fail to see if this has anything to do with the point you're saying at all. And you made it sound like the PC space doesn't share similar issue.The shenanigan with the GPU on the PC market that had lasted for 3 years, and still have shown a sign of correcting itself is making console a lot more attractive option ATM. I put together a brand new PC last year, and still running a 6 years old card because it replacement will cost as much as the PS5 itself even without being the latest option.

I've no need to reevaluate anything. Economists have been predicting another game crash for a while now, and much of what they've predicted would happen leading up to it has already come to pass. It may be next year, it may be a decade from now, but there very little chance the gaming industry won't experience another crash. And yes, exclusivity deals are a contributing factor.

Like ... if it happens, then everything is a contributing factor. Whether it's actually the factor or not is everyone guess. That's the whole concept behind "false prophet". Like people who keep complaining and predicting FF14 will eventually fail are not wrong, because it probably will, nothing last forever. Could be in 5 years, or 10 years, but that doesn't mean the false prophet is right.

The above aside, I must ask, why are you so often disingenuous in your posts? You frequently go out of your way to imply malice and/or dishonesty where there is none simply because you happen to disagree with a poster. Is it a lack of confidence in the merit of your own posts, or do you just genuinely believe everyone you disagree with is acting in bad faith?

Being on a forum where every other complain is coupled with the usual "if SE don't listen to me then it's certainly doom" can do that for you. Hyperbolic statement just trigger me. Also, did you miss the very last part of the post where I said "including myself"? So let strike a deal: you stop using hyperbolic grand statements, and I'll stop poking at you for it, deal?

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Btw, the last 30 has always been filled with constant hyperbolic assumption.

- At the peak of the console popularity (PS2/Xbox 1 and early 360 era + Wii) people claimed PC gaming was numbered. Remember those day when you go to gamestop and 90% of the estate are console game with some deformed PC box share a lonely sad corner? Then Steam happened.

- In the hayday of WoW, everyone wanted their own slice. Many SP developers jumped ship including some of the most famous one like Bioware, Bethesa and even Square. Again, people were herald the day of single player was limited because everything is MP driven. And really, after the majority of those projects fail, these days single player option are still as strong as it ever was, if not even stronger.


The point here is you're literally contradicting yourself in your 2nd paragraph. It's because the market is so vast right now that many company won't live or die with after one failure. And any attempt to create a hole that can destabilize the market will eventually be plugged by competitors and there is nothing you can do about it, regardless of how big you are. Competition and diversity is not an "industrial-destroyer", it's what make the market healthy. And competition means company will try to one up each others, time exclusive is just one of way to do that.

And it's exactly because the market is so strong today that you know most time exclusive is just that, time exclusive. In the end, good thing comes to those who wait, better thing even.