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Exclusivity is the game industry's "Achilles' heel", says former PlayStation boss
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has opened up on his thoughts about the modern games industry, stating that "exclu…
Now an adviser to companies like Tencent and Web3 ventures, Layden was quick to detail the problems he sees in platform exclusivity, especially as development costs continue to rocket. Layden further dissected the potential "stranglehold" PlayStation and other hardware developers are putting on themselves by making games platform-exclusive, especially as "consumer minds are changing". Moore – who held senior positions at EA, Microsoft, and Sega before leaving gaming altogether to join Liverpool FC in 2017 – reflected on the losses incurred whenever there's a new console generation, suggesting that both "companies and gamers" are asking questions about whether or not players "really need to be spending what could be five, $600 on a bespoke piece of hardware just to play games".
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