This is just another blog piece riding on the coattails of Kotaku's article written by an insane progressive leftist transgender social justice warrior. This is the type of political driven garbage we get from Kotaku and others who create a divide because they are so mental and warped they feel the need to disband news or even opinion for identity politics and social justice propaganda. It's a comic book game AKA fiction for Peter Parker's sake, and this is our world today, attacking our medium and using it as a platform to push an agenda. I'm sure these idiots will crawl into their safe spaces, pop a couple tide pods in their mouth and cry on Twitter why Spiderman (a white heterosexual male figure) is a cancer on society.

This is just like the absurdity over Last of Us 2. People making up problems that aren't there.

So it's been a long while since I've been to New York. But does New York have some sort of contentious relationship with the NYPD? I know there have been some recent instances of police brutality reports, but 2017 had the least number of police shootings ever in NYC.

Last I recall New Yorks, and even most of America's relationship with the NYPD was coupled with other first responders and that was of great respect for their actions and deeds during the 9/11 attacks. I'm sure that's settled down over time, although firefighters and EMS still seems to get a ton of respect everywhere, but have New Yorkers become so hateful of police that it requires a game to somehow represent a hugely jaded society that I personally haven't seen to be prevelant anywhere other than some hyperbole by media outlets which conflate everything to epic proportions through over-generalization, and using anecdotes to paint a view that simply doesn't exist.

This is why I hate this social media.

Exactly. I don't know what the freaking issue is.

more like retard.

this was alwalys the case and will always be the case. with everything

if you look back into the PS history, it has always been the 3rd parties who sells the most games. it was just that the PS1 and PS2 were so dominant that many of those 3rd party games were exclusives. so, back during the PS1 and PS2 days, the strategy was "to sell as many consoles as possible in order to sell more 1st party exclusives" to ride on that wave. The strategy to push many 1st party exclusives to sell consoles only started with the PS3 when many of those prior 3rd party exclusives went multiplat but more accurately, it started with the PSP.

Sony saw with the PSP, which was being trounced in sales by the DS, that 3rd party exclusives are hard to come by if you're not dominating the market. So they started building more 1st party games and when the PS3 were facing difficulties in sales, they knew they had to rely on their own to differentiate the PS3 from the 360. So the strategy back then changed to "release more 1st party exclusives in order to sell more consoles".

the only manufacturer that is still consistently selling their hardware to play 1st party exclusives, is Nintendo, and that was because they gave up the armrace for power thus they can't rely on 3rd parties anymore as all multiplats play better on competing consoles. AND that's also why they are the most ominous in going after emulators and also patent trolling!

so, you're not wrong there, but not an "aha!" moment or anything. it has been this way since the last, at least, 15 years for Playstation.

@zerobalance

So... what this tells you is that Call of duty, being the absolute check writer that it is, has been outsold by Last of us, God of war, 2 Spider man games..... Saying Playstation exclusives doesn't sell is like saying call of duty doesn't sell because they have outsold some of iterations. Does that make sense to you?