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Maybe I should have changed the title of the post to something different from the one of the article. I see a lot of people responding to the title but there is a lot of stuff in the article that I find quite interesting (the lack of new first party exclusives, focus on cloud gaming).
The lack of exclusives is really bad considering there are only like 4 or 5 real exclusives, and one of them is the tech demo that comes with the console (Astro's Playroom).
This is good; exclusivity hurts consumers.
Honestly, I have no issue with exclusives as long as they get released on another platform after a while. Sony's been good about releasing a lot of the hits on PC after a couple years, so aside from missing the initial hype, I haven't really missed out being PC only.
Exclusives that stay exclusive indefinitely, I basically treat those games as if they don't exist. I don't have anywhere to put a PS5, nor a desire to get one really, and as far as I know they make most of their money from game sales anyway. I don't see much value in them locking people out of their games completely.