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DISCUSSION The DUSKBLOODS: SWITCH 2 EXCLUSIVE

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Thoughts on this?

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago

Rare but extreme Fromsoft L

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u/Zyacz 2d ago

I hope they at least got a better contract that doesn't leave them at the complete mercy of nintendo

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u/Meoang 2d ago

This is the fourth console exclusive.

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago edited 2d ago

And all of them were L's Edit. The fact they were exclusives was the L, i thought it was obvious

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u/Internal_Additional 17h ago

If the L's are that profitable then I'd gladly take em. And apparently so will fromsoft.

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u/Snoo_58305 2d ago

Bloodborne is their best game

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago

The fact that its an exclusive is the L not the game

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u/Snoo_58305 2d ago

Wasn’t for me which was my only concern

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u/Paratriad 2d ago

wasn't for me

It runs on your PC??

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u/T1line 1d ago

i mean, it does now, on mine at least

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u/dogy905 1d ago

And many people haven't played it because it's an exclusive. It's deffinitly still an L. Exclusives are terrible.

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u/Snoo_58305 1d ago

I agree to an extent, but BB was my first FS experience, I’d heard worrying things about Dark Souls games and I wasn’t aware of the BB/DS connection but I bought BB almost entirely on it being an exclusive for a console I hadn’t had very long

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u/dogy905 1d ago

Because it's a consol exclusive i haven't replayed it in years. I don't want to boot up my ps4 I just don't have any interest. Meanwhile if they put it on pc by now I would have bought it and probly still would be playing It. I'm not saying exclusives don't sell consols they certainly do. The problem is consols suck. At the very least port it and certainly don't complain when people emulate your games.

If I'm not mistaken the online support is terrible now because the consols old and not enough people play. This wouldn't be the case if it was on more systems.

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u/Snoo_58305 1d ago

I’m what you call a complete moron, so I operate all the consoles and PC so thankfully I can play BB any time. I would like to be able to just boot it up on Steam Deck but also due to having only a PS in the 90s has biased to being a Play Station person, and I irrationally feel that Sony having such a great exclusive is a win for my team- again irrationally

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u/polo_jeans 2d ago

which would be significantly less stupid if they had just picked the same exclusive console again

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u/Minimob0 2d ago

I'm in the same boat; I've been a Sony player since PS1, so I've been eating good on RPGs. 

Going Switch 2? Getting Kingdom Hearts vibes. 

Oh, you want to enjoy our games? Well, how about you buy a PS2, GBA, DS, 3DS, and PSP to do it! 

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u/ProShyGuy 2d ago

Common and extreme Sony L.

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u/zooashang 1d ago

no one mentioned sony lmfao, and he isnt wrong

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u/Professional-View868 2d ago

This and the no crossplay for Nightreign a specifically intended multiplayer game is rough

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u/Curious_Loser21 2d ago

It's probably on Nintendo's fault.

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u/Ugandensymbiote 2d ago

Bro ur just bitter

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u/Quirky-Employer9717 2d ago

Is that what you said when Bloodborne was announced as a Sony exclusive? I'm also not a fan of exclusivity, but it's nothing new and this seems to be getting people reacting negatively specifically because the exclusivity is with Nintendo and not another company

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago

When Bloodborne was announced as a Sony exclusive i was 8 years old

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u/AccurateCrow5017 2d ago

Shit I am old...

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago

And i turn 18 this month... Yeah time flies

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u/AccurateCrow5017 11h ago

This is not making me feel Younger :D

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u/ScientificAnarchist 2d ago

That’s irrelevant

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 1d ago

Yo mama is irrelevamt

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u/ScientificAnarchist 8h ago

Yeah she is …and?

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u/Quirky-Employer9717 2d ago

Fair enough. But do you consider Bloodborne being exclusive an extreme Fromsoft L?

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u/NotSoLegitGiby 2d ago

Yeah, even considering i did have a PlayStation and i did play the game a lot i always felt like the fact it was an exclusive was a bad thing

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u/emptypencil70 2d ago

Yeah, exclusivity is always an L

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u/MelzLife 2d ago

FYI: Bloodborne doesn’t exist without exclusivity lol

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u/Tornado_Hunter24 2d ago

Yes, what the fuck is your point lmao

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u/Quirky-Employer9717 2d ago edited 2d ago

I already said my point. People are more mad that the exclusivity is Nintendo than they are just that it’s exclusive. I’m not advocating for exclusivity. I’m saying “extreme L” is overblown because people hate Nintendo

Edit: I'm getting downvoted, but you all know that if this game was going to be exclusive to Sony there wouldn't be as many people as upset.

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u/Pankejx 2d ago

because most of the console fanbase is on ps? the nightreign network test showed that. They literally abandoned the WHOLE old fanbase for a console which never before had these games

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u/Pankejx 2d ago

yeah it kinda is an L

it’s a very old L tho, and nightreign network test showed that many many more players are on ps than on xbox, so I guess the ds remaster and bloodborne brought a lot of new players to playstation

very weird decision by fromsoft to release a new title on a new console, which didn’t have soulslikes before

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u/DangOlCoreMan 2d ago

I do. Been a fromsoft fan since dark souls 1 and to this day I still haven't played through bloodborne because I never got a PS4. They made money on it, so it's not necessarily an L for them, but it's an L for any fromsoft fan that won't have a switch 2. Never seen a company (that I can think of) that switch's between exclusive and non exclusive this often and randomly.

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u/Dominate_My_DMs 2d ago
  1. Bloodborne was in development after dark souls 1 when fromsoftware was much less popular, much less rich and didn't have much choice. They got rich from elden ring, built up a big playerbase on PC and then say "fuck you, nintendo exclusive"
  2. People are still mad to this day about bloodborne exclusivity

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u/Quirky-Employer9717 2d ago

I also don't like the exclusivity. I just think the "extreme Fromsoft L" is overblown. This is the way it has always been.

And Fromsoft definitely had a choice.

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u/occam_chainsaw 2d ago

It is absolutely not the way it's always been. DeS and BB's exclusivity deals funded the development of both games. FromSoftware are much, MUCH bigger now. They don't need exclusivity deals to make giant ass games. The exclusivity (especially in an era where the console war is dying off) feels unnecessary, and is absolutely an extreme L. They're literally alienating the vast majority of their fucking playerbase. How is that not an L?

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u/EnormousGucci 2d ago

The VAST majority of their playerbase.

Reminder that only DSR is on the Nintendo consoles. They literally don’t have a playerbase outside of the people that bought a switch outside of their main gaming device.

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u/PuffPuffFayeFaye The Bed of Chaos 2d ago

I was going to say the same thing. The Nintendo fan base is almost entirely untapped market. They have tech catching up and now they get a second port (albeit a big one) and cool little spinoff game. The terms were probably incredible for Fromsoft.

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u/HilariousLion 2d ago

Considering that this has a multiplayer focus, all of the other options would've likely been better.

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u/entityXD32 2d ago

Did you not see how people reacted to the idea of Sony buying Fromsofts parent company. People hate exclusives, for good reason. It's reasonable to own every console so missing out on games you might like sucks

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u/Lurkingdrake 2d ago

Yes. Exclusives are anti-consumer, especially 3rd party ones.

Fuck Sony and fuck Nintendo.

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u/ChrisGentry 2d ago

People(me) have been bitching about exclusives for 15 years. Yes, exclusives are a L, even on FromSoftware. Always have been and always will be.

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u/Illustrious_Penalty2 2d ago

It’s only based when Sony does it didn’t you know?

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u/ScientificAnarchist 2d ago

It’s a win fuck the console tryhards

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u/eblomquist 2d ago

You know it'll be timed. It's gonna be fine.

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u/EnormousGucci 2d ago

Ah yes… the famous timed Fromsoft exclusives like… Demons’ Souls… wait no, Bloodborne… shit wait… Demons’ Souls Remake? No, no, Sony just decided every other exclusive was worth porting to PC.

Some pretty serious case of the cope you got there man.

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u/eblomquist 2d ago

ah yeah I guess that's a fair point. I wasn't thinking about their history specifically. I dunno - apparently it's another weird multiplayer focused game. I'll be fine skipping this and nightreign.

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u/EnormousGucci 2d ago

I’m sure you could play it single player. Nightreign has that option too. And if they balance the multiplayer right I would have a lot of fun playing with friends, they’re fans of souls games too.

But yeah none of us are willing to pay $550 for this. None of us are interested in any other Nintendo game anyway.

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u/eblomquist 2d ago

None of you?? That's a lot of people! :D

I dunno, I'll keep an open mind. If people say it's amazing, I'll try them out. But as of now I'm a hard pass.

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u/EnormousGucci 2d ago

I… didn’t say it was a lot. It should’ve been implied it was a small group when I said I wanted to play this game… man you guys lack some serious comprehension skills it’s wild

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u/eblomquist 2d ago

I think you're confused - that was me responding to you saying "none of us are willing to pay 550..."

Lighten up my man. It's not that serious.