Unfortunately this shady practise isn’t likely to end anytime soon. And PC gamers have the same issue, thanks to the insane demand for graphics cards, and the global chip shortage making it very difficult to put together a comparable gaming PC. Unfortunately the insane demand for PS5s, and the battle to get a console before scalpers, means getting hold of one is an uphill battle. The newly announced Spider-Man 2 being a perfect example of this. I don’t have a PS5 at the moment, but I do want to get one at some point to avoid the whole issue of exclusive titles.

Especially given how difficult it is to get a next-gen console right now. No matter what the game, or which platforms, gets the initial advantage, it’s about time we stopped casually accepting it when console makers pull this sort of thing. Likely the Xbox Series X, since a PS5-tier game probably isn’t going to run so well on Nintendo Switch.īut that doesn’t make this practice ok. Sony’s use of “console exclusive at launch” certainly suggests that the game will be coming to other platforms after a set period of time. Lucasfilm Games has confirmed that the KOTOR remake will be coming to PC at the same time as PS5. But that doesn’t really help justify the fact that the KOTOR remake is a PS5 exclusive at launch. In fact it was only ported to Xbox because its architecture was fairly similar to that of a PC, and meant it was significantly less effort than would be needed for another console port. The question as to why this happened has come up a lot over the years, with the consensus being that KOTOR was designed to be a PC game first. The games arrived on PC and Xbox, but never made it to the PS2 or Nintendo’s Gamecube.

Some have pointed out that the original KOTOR (and its sequel) was also a console exclusive. The fact it’s a game fans still hold dear, and have been asking for a remake of for a while, is like rubbing salt into the wound. It’s significantly worse when that game is already part of an established franchise, especially one as big as Star Wars. But there is a big difference between walling off a game made by a first-party developer, and negotiating a deal on one made by someone else. I’d much rather be able to play every game on a single system, and on the same day as I would if I had bought something else.

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