Riight SMH.

It's really funny that Nintendo are the exact opposite of microsoft with their strong and unique 1st party content and microsoft is very weak in that department.
Let me tell you something even funnier some xbox guys at different post were claiming sony stole 3rd party games from them to justify their tomb raider deal and past ones now let's guess which games they were talking about, bloodborne the order and other 2nd party games where the ip is completely owned by sony pretty much like how sega developed that f zero game for gc or sumo digital and lbp3 according to their logic those games are 3rd party.
I cant believe how people think anymore they should stop consuming the mainstream media and stop spongebob that might help a little.
But who am I to talk when call of duty succeeds every time, or a console with inconsistent support and no diversity like 360 kinda succeeded simply because it was cheaper nothing else

it's a big deal to some people. i bought every system last gen with a fight stick for each one. this was because i played in tournaments and the system used usually switched between ps3 and xbox360. with SFV being exclusive, i now only need a PS4.

the fighting game scene is one of the most dedicated fanbases in video gaming. this definitely creates a significant schism between consoles that isn't in Microsoft's favor.

Oh I totally agree. Here was a comment I made on another article about it.

"I've been giving this a bit of thought and if you really think about it, I believe this may be the most significant Gaming related thing that PlayStation has done this generation. (well aside from E3 2013)

Consider the fighting game community. While not as big as the something like the FPS community, it has an incredibly dedicated fanbase and brings in people who will typically play for years and years. These are exactly the type of people you want on your console, people who will be constantly using it.

By getting Street Fighter V as a console exclusive, Sony has essentially ensured the entire current generation fighting game community will be gaming on PlayStation. Not only have the ensured that this game will sell on their console only, they have also ensured a constant revenue stream of people who will pay for PS+ and hundreds on pieces of content but most importantly, they have ensured that all mutiplat fighting games for the rest of the generation will always sell better on PlayStation, mark my words, Every. Single. One. Effectively about 2 million people will likely buy a PS4 simply over this title and Sony has essentially gauraenteed them to be customers for the rest of the generation.

What this comes down to, is that I would argue that this might be the single most important maneuver made this generation so far, even more than something like TitanFall being exclusive to Xbox and PC."

Microsoft reinvigorated this trend.

For those that disagree, in 1982 if you wanted to play Pac-Man at home you had to own an Atari 2600. Atari had exclusive rights to port Namco games to their system. If you owned a Magnavox Odysee, you played KC Munchkin instead. I'm fairly certain this predates Microsoft's entry into console gaming.

If you were a Dreamcast owner in 1999, guess what game you couldn't play? EA's Madden. It was only available on the Playstation and N64. Metal Gear has been exclusive to Playstation on and off too. If anything I remember third parties being exclusive most on the Playstation. Sega had less support and Nintendo relied primarily on their first party studios. It wasn't until Microsoft released the Xbox that we seen Sony challenged on this front.

@Death
yeah it existed earlier, but in the form that it is today, that was Microsoft's invention in my opinion.

Hardcore SF players won't wait around for any of those.

Well said my friend.

lol Sony paid for and is co-developing SFV. If any game goes to another platform under that banner, it's only gonna be with their consent, or Capcom will have to have either paid back Sony's investment or built it on a new engine Sony didn't go in on.

That's reality, my salty friend.

Maybe in 2-3 years when there is a version that has characters I care for.

So far there is not one of the new characters I like..and my favourite 4 are not a part of it either. (Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega) + the whole hip hop style and the crappy music turned me totally off.

Looking forward a lot to Tekken 8.

Don't remember the criticques it got for the big hands and feet, the sometimes weird looking faces, the lame boss (Seth) and that so many characters were shotos and yup..the many new versions. Just every SF got its haters no matter how good it was.

It was criticized for the first trailers having an interesting art style with those ink splashes, but the real game had none of that and people felt cheated. And Capcom decided to add some of those effects in the game later because of the backlash. But I don't remember any other big complaints about it.