Posted by Dusty

They're not really. Console makers will always pay to have their own first-party developers at hand(Sony Computer Entertainment America, for example), and will always shell out money to exclusive rights. Why? Because most of the time what really sells a console is what games it's offering. Do you think PS3 would have sold at all if it weren't for games like MGS:4 in its early years? Sometimes people really have to have that one game on a console, and may just buy the entire console for it. They know this. It would be financial suicide for consoles to just forget about exclusive titles, especially when consoles like the PS3 and 360 offer a very similar experience. And even if they're not, when they're even remotely the same, developers will dumb down the game to work on the least powerful console and the more powerful console ends up with the same exact game anyways, regardless of being capable of much more(360 and PS3 are good examples of this, where PS3 usually gets games that look horrible compared to games like MGS4 or God of War 3, because games are made to be playable on the 360).