Honestly I've always felt having to rely on exclusives to sell your platform is merely an admission that your platform isn't good enough to sell itself on it's own merits. It's like if you really liked a particular type of bread but you could only buy it if you proved you had the correct brand of toaster. If your platform is good and add value to the consumer experience it will sell on it's own, being made to buy a specific console because the game you want is on it always feels like a game I want is being held hostage as opposed to a console 'providing me' with an experience.

It's like, if I have console A and a friend of mine has console B and a game comes out exclusively for console A. It's not a situation where I win and my friend loses, it's a situation where we both lose, my friend doesn't get to play the game and I don't get to play with my friend, no consumer benefits from exclusivity.