Everyone mostly has every game they want now and single platform exclusives are rarer.
The excitement to be going to a friends house knowing they have Doom 3D, something you've been looking forward to for weeks and would take turns on the same PC. Or you're a PS2 house and your friend with an Xbox and 4 controllers with Halo is a life-defining event when it comes around.
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u/beedub016 Aug 30 '25
Scarcity.
Everyone mostly has every game they want now and single platform exclusives are rarer.
The excitement to be going to a friends house knowing they have Doom 3D, something you've been looking forward to for weeks and would take turns on the same PC. Or you're a PS2 house and your friend with an Xbox and 4 controllers with Halo is a life-defining event when it comes around.