On 8/10/2020 at 11:30 AM, Ross Scott said:I KNEW somebody was going to draw that conclusion and was hesitant whether I should spell it out in the video. Answer: no. I'm saying it should be illegal for contracts to state that the developer can NOT release on another platform. If they don't want to port to another platform by their own volition, that's fine. I'm not saying they should be REQUIRED to release on something else. I realize this is a really radical stance to take, but it's literally what was in place for movies for a long time.
Won't platform holders just get around this by outright buying the publication rights to any game they want exclusivity on? Because it's one thing to ban them from cutting deals, but it's another thing to force them to port what is legally their own game to a competitor's platform. In fact, I'd say the vast majority of the time a game is exclusive to a single console platform even now, it's because that's exactly what the platform holder did.