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I honestly don't see a meaningful difference between first party games and paid-for third party exclusives. Either way you're paying for a game to be exclusive to your platform.

Imho, the difference lies in whether they're paying for the game to be made or paying for the game to not release on the competing platform. For example, Capcom probably would've made Dead Rising 3 at some point, regardless of Microsoft throwing money at them. It's "make this for us" (think Nintendo bankrolling Bayonetta 2, a game that would otherwise never have happened) vs "fuck the other guy's customers".

Basically, I take issue when their money c...

... causes a game that should've otherwise been multiplat to become exclusive.