Which System Still Has the Best Exclusive Lineup?

**Will** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

I understand, but that's a different topic, something like "which system has the best overall library" or something along those lines. And that one's been done 1,000 times across the internet.

Eh, I think that's splitting hairs at this point.

This is an ambitious topic but at the same time I think it may be a little TOO broad even with all the qualifiers, perhaps if you made several topics across the past consoles gradually going to the present it would be easier to break down and declare some "winners". Personally I'd love it if all the old stuff just got collected into various editions in HD which is why newer consoles benefit from that stuff.

**Yoshi** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Will

Personally I'd love it if all the old stuff just got collected into various editions in HD which is why newer consoles benefit from that stuff.

Amen to this. And I'll take all the Virtual Console and PSN stuff too. I just don't want a dozen consoles anymore.

**YellerDog** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:24 PM

Licensed games only stay alive through piracy and the 1/1000 chance anybody gives a shit about a retro revival twenty years later.

**Yoshi** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:26 PM

A collection of worthwhile licensed games could actually be feasible, though the hardware to play them would suck. Of course, that's all based on old licensed games. Stuff like the Arkham series will now be available indefinitely.

**YellerDog** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:33 PM

Even Duck Tales isn't the actual game. Wouldn't hold out for 2 or the GB game.

**Yoshi** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:34 PM

I meant a collection of the original, physical licensed games.

**Will** · 18 Jul 2013, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

Licensed games only stay alive through piracy and the 1/1000 chance anybody gives a shit about a retro revival twenty years later.

I don't think that's necessarily the case since compilations have been slowly added to the Virtual Console/PSN/XBLA markets and they mingle pretty well with the indy and the original PSN/Live Arcade games.

I'm not sure if they're like huge sellers or anything but the legacy titles aren't totally forgotten by any means although it still strikes me as odd that Konami doesn't have entire compilations of Castlevania and Contra.