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As the console wars rage on, more and more previously unwilling souls are being forced to pick a side. One isn't necessarily better than the other, the warlords beckon. That's up to you which one you throw your support behind.

One of the biggest deciding factors for "teh true winnah" in the console wars is the quality of first and third party exclusive games. Some of you might not know this, but big triple-A releases such as Devil May Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed were originally slated to show up only on the Playstation 3. Microsoft, on the other hand, has not lost any exclusives. It'll be safe to say that even 4-5 years from now, we won't see ports of Halo 3 or Gears of War coming to the Playstation 3. Now, that's not necessarily fanboy baiting. Microsoft has always managed to pimp their products with ruthless efficiency that one would expect from a company made up of diminutive bespectacled white men. Case in point: how many people that purchased a computer between January of 2007 and now actually want to use Vista over XP?

So, to reiterate, that's not fanboy baiting. If anything, the decreasing amount of exclusive games for respective platforms only serves to emphasize the growing costs of video game production, now that we've entered the age of HD gaming. An easy way to fix the aforementioned problem with exclusive games?

That's easy; completely get rid of the concept of third-party exclusivity.

We live in an age of excess and choice. Go into an Wal-Mart or Target on a Saturday afternoon and behold the spectacle that is the human tragedy, with heifer after heifer struggling to push their carts down aisles upon aisles of economy-sized products littered with screaming children and unresponsive dead-eyed parents. But the key point is that no matter your choice of mega-market, be it Wal-Mart or Target, you'll still find the same spoiled children and irresponsible parents, just pushing different color carts.

So, let's analogize for a second here (huh, huh, anal) and draw the obvious comparisons. Economy-sized products? The games both platforms offer. The screaming children? The screaming children. That buys these games and bitch about exclusivitiy. Wal-Mart and Target? Xbox 360 and PS3, respectively, or PS3 and Xbox 360, respectively. It doesn't matter. There may be different in-store brands for products such as tissue paper or maybe fabric softener, but they both get A to B. After this year's jawbreaking yawnfest of E3, it's pretty evident true creativity and innovation doesn't matter. Sony is trying to copy Xbox 360, Xbox 360 is trying to bite the Wii (huh huh), and Nintendo still doesn't get it.

Don't get on my dick about, "derrr cell processor" or "grahhh 5 million pixels a second" and all that other shit that, at the end of the day, matters about as much as the bird shit that I seemingly have to wash off my car week in and week out. I've played both versions of Devil May Cry 4 and GTA IV, and guess what? They're the same damn thing.

Enough with the crying about exclusivity. Let's all enjoy our third-party games together like the fat fucking adults we should be.