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the console war's love language: you can't play this unless you bought the right box.
means games published or funded specifically to run only on one platform, luring buyers to that ecosystem instead of a rival's.
from born from 1980s console wars when Nintendo and Sega fought for shelf space and loyalty, exclusivity became the cheapest weapon: pay a studio, lock the game, sell the hardware.
sony's playbookbought entire studios just to lock franchises
timed exclusivetemporary lock, expires, then game goes multiplatform
real costplayers buy consoles just for one game