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by PH95VuimJjqBqy 933 days ago
No, most AAA studios had their own engine which was designed to port to the different consoles.

The only real difference between something like Unreal Engine and what they used back then is that UE won and is the de factor standard whereas back then most were rolling their own still.
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scott_w 933 days ago
I've flagged two MAJOR games studios that were the exact opposite of what you claim: Capcom and Squaresoft. One ported games (PORTED, not designed cross-platform) with some major issues doing so. The other outright didn't.

All you've posted in response is a small number of games that were obviously ported AFTER released (in one case 10 years after).

Unreal Engine has nothing to do with this. It was first released in 1998 as a PC engine, not appearing on consoles until the Playstation 2 era in the 2000s. The 2000s happened after the 1990s.

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PH95VuimJjqBqy 933 days ago
as stated in another response to you, stop being dishonest in your replies. This distinction of ported vs planned is one that doesn't exist when discussing exclusivity to a console.

It's also not relevant when discussing studio's adding support for multiple consoles to their in-house game engines.

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scott_w 933 days ago
The distinction is relevant when YOU YOURSELF call console exclusivity a “scam.” Your words.
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PH95VuimJjqBqy 933 days ago
My actual statement with added emphasis.

> exclusives are generally a _lock-in scam_ for the companies and say absolutely nothing about the games on a system.

stop being dishonest.

But even if you weren't mischaracterizing my statement, console exclusivity means only that console has the game. Whether it was planned ahead of time or done after the fact is irrelevant, the game is not exclusive when it becomes available for multiple platforms. It's a distinction that does not matter.

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scott_w 933 days ago
You’re obsessed with deceit and dishonesty. First you accuse game developers of a scam (deceit), which I’ve demonstrated it’s not. When I do, you accuse me of dishonesty. Nothing you provided is substantiated with any evidence. On the contrary, everything you did provide brought your argument crashing down.

The only one arguing with bad faith here is you.

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PH95VuimJjqBqy 933 days ago
The ad hominem is a strong indicator that you don't have a leg to stand on.
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