Just to be clear, I disagree with the article author.
First, lemme point out the logic hole in the article:
…most gamers don’t have the luxury to own multiple consoles, so they miss out on many phenomenal titles that also happen to be exclusives.
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I see no reason to buy a PS4 just to experience an exclusive or two.
An exclusive or two is not many. Okay?
And what many phenomenal titles? Life of Black Tiger perhaps?
That settled? Hopefully yes.
Now what those an exclusive or two exactly are? From the article… Spiderman? Get real it's yet another mushrooms no skill needed twitch/stream ready product. I'm not sure it's a game at all.
God of War (Dad of Boy)? If only reviewers forgot to mention repetitive trashmobs I'd think maybe it is.
Recent ports of successful console products on PC are, at least to me, mostly disappointments. I don't mean usually horrible controls. It's all outdated designs, as mediocre as possible clones of clones with enormous amount of boring filler. Even FF15 that's mentioned in the article, although polished for PC it's visuals are fantastic, suffers from cowardice of writers to spice things up and in the end a player, PC player, doesn't care about anything or anyone in it.
When a title that sold millions of copies on consoles hits PC I buy it based on enthusiasm from console gamers. Of course they're extatic about the trash when they never saw anything better. But how can I know it's yet another mediocrity?
Recent example is DQ11 where some guy wrote on Steam forums it's so great game it's 11/10. Seriously? A festival of outdated designs is 11/10? For god's sakes…
I'm saying console exclusives are actually healthy for PC audience. We don't need mediocrity. It needs to stay away from PC.
There is only one console exclusive I want to see on my PC and it's HZD. Before a month there were two, and then Sega ported that other one to PC - Yakuza 0. Maybe some of people here want to see some other titles on PC too, good for you, but do we really need the trash or we're better without it?