Famicom Dojo Podcast: Timed Exclusives

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Dec.21, 2012

The Wii U exclusive Zombi U is a sequel (of sorts) to Ubisoft’s first game, but many people already want it on other platforms. Some people won’t play Bayonetta 2 as long as it’s on Nintendo’s new console, even though Nintendo was the company that published it. Rayman Legends looks amazing, but — again — is only available on the Wii U. Do these hopers hope agains hope, or are their predictions as futile as that of an impending apocalype purportedly predicted by Mayans thousands of years ago?

Sean and Vinnk examine exclusivity: console games, DLC, games developed by second parties that made their way to a competitor’s console, or stuff that third-party developers swore would never be released on other platforms, but somehow made their way their anyway.

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Tags: Bayonetta 2, Bioware, EA, Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Microsoft, Nintendo, Rayman Legends, Ubisoft, Wii U

Crade Lit

I’m pretty sure when they make those agreements, they agree on how long they must remain exclusive for, whether it’s announced or kept secret. They also probably have other conditions, such as having a minimum number of sales on that console, or other sorts of conditions we don’t know about. I’m sure there would be actual lawsuits if there were any actual agreements broken.

I’m hardly anti-Nintendo, but if you are being honest, they just released another under powered console. Thats how Nintendo works, they don’t go for powerful hardware. How is that supposed to be an answer to people who complained about them releasing an underpowered console last time? Thats ridiculous. I really don’t see how them releasing something comparable to the last gen hardware today is not supposed to give those complainers even more fuel. The only difference is that low powered hardware today is more powerful than low powered hardware 7 years ago.

That zombie game sounds great!
BumblebeeZ3

There are still things that will cause third party games to be system exclusive(or at the very least make a particular experience of a game exclusive).

Soul Calibur II Link, I doubt he will be available in any version released on a Sony or Microsoft system. (who knows with Heihachi or Spawn)

There is also the issue of what happens if a certain publisher loses the rights to a license? I know I’d love to buy/re-buy a lot of the old Capcom NES Disney games if they were offered as digital downloads or a disk compilation.
Licensed games, with all the legal knots they can come with, may stay console specific. (or region specific, like a lot of the Super Robot Wars games)
vomitHatSteve

Hmmm… I still have my old Amiga. I’ll have to see if I can find a copy of Zombi. That game looks fun.

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