E3

[A Black Falcon]

Look, I know that you armchair gaming publishers think that you know more about marketing than the likes of Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, but I'm sorry to report that you're very wrong about all of this. The PC is NOT in direct competition with ANY OTHER GAMING PLATFORM, therefor YOU CAN CALL DOOM 3 AN XBOX EXCLUSIVE. They are entirely different markets! The three home consoles are in their own separate market. They compete directly with each other, nothing else. The Gameboy Advance, for instance, does not compete with the PS2. The PSP does not compete with the Gamecube. The PC does not compete with any of the consoles because it is not in the same market!

Get this through your thick skulls.

EVERY platform is in competition with each other one! Of course!

Look, if there was truly no comparison, Microsoft wouldn't wait a year before releasing Halo on PC, or Fable. As I said, it's called limited exclusivity -- to get a lot of sales of the game on your platform, and then sell it on more platforms to make even more money. Simple.

Of course the GBA competes with the PS2. Or these days 'DS' might be more accurate... when last week 90,000 DSes sold in Japan, what do you think those people weren't buying? Yeah, that'd probably be at the cost of a few more PS2 games. You're no more right about how they are completely different markets than Nintendo is, and Nintendo is wrong (remember the whole "GC and PS2 are in different markets" thing? Just an extension of what you're saying here.).

There's nothing "obscure" about this opinion at all, it exists everywhere in the marketplace, and ask anyone from Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft and they will confirm what I have stated. This is why Microsft can label Doom 3 as an X-Box exclusive, and why Nintendo can label Yoshi's Island for the GBA as "ONLY FOR GAMEBOY ADVANCE", even though it has been available for the SNES for many years.

It's 100% a marketing label aimed at selling more units and 0% based on reality.