Are exclusive titles on their way out? According to Sony's senior VP of publisher relations Rob Dyer, they very well might be.

"Exclusives just aren't as commonplace as they were during the PS2 days," he recently told IndustryGamers.

"We're not going to get the exclusive games – the Mass Effects, Gears of Wars and Left 4 Deads aren't going to happen nearly as often," senior VP of publisher relations Rob Dyer told IndustryGamers.

"Exclusives just aren't as commonplace as they were during the PS2 days.

"What is going to be the driving force is either exclusive ad campaigns, like the Madden campaign, or exclusive content like we had with Batman. The PS3 version outsold the 360 version, and what we've said to developers is: 'if you take advantage of what the PS3 can deliver – more content on the Blu-ray disc, better graphics, being able to get more of what the player wants onto the disc – you're going to see those sales translate'.

"So what we've been doing is going to publishers and using that as our basic story, and going after exclusive content. You're going to see a lot of that, and for example, you're seeing it now with Dante's Inferno. EA had the collector's edition only on PS3. They filled up that Blu-ray disc and were able to do a lot more that they couldn't with 360."
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    Aussie Legend Feb 18, 10
    I tend to agree, I think there are gonna be less and less exclusive titles over the next few years.
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    Daweii Feb 18, 10
    I personally believe this is worse. When games were exclusive you either bought the console when enough titles mounted up or you ignored them. Now we are in a generation of games that aren't exclusive but often story content that is through DLC and that just isn't fair. I mean Fallout 3: Broken Steel that opened the game up made the game so different on Xbox 360 for close to a year, it wasn't fair.
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      ShadowGuard Feb 19, 10
      exclusives are what drives the industry. Competition is a necessity and if everyone plays buddy buddy with each other, the industry wont move ahead. I like exclusives.
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      DystopiaSticker Feb 19, 10
      Agreed. If I was a PS3 Fallout 3 owner, I'd be pissed I didn't have access to Broken Steel.

      It just seems like such a rip off to pay $60 for a game and not have access to all of it. Exclusive games I've always understood, but exclusive content SUCKS.
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    Red 9 Feb 19, 10
    The only reason I think Sony are saying this is because they have such a hard time getting things exclusive. I ave not once seen Microsoft ever say this.

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