jamyskis: I remember this quite patently idiotic image that someone posted at one point to demonstrate that the PC was somehow superior because it had "more" exclusives, even though the PC section had an absurd amount of shovelware, and the download exclusives on the consoles were deliberately left out.

There are certainly plenty of PC exclusives, and when it comes to the best indies, PC almost always gets them first due to it being an open platform (before inevitably being ported to consoles), but no-one should be in any doubt that claiming that PC had tons of exclusives is like claiming the Wii had tons of exclusives.

The Wii DID have tons of third-party exclusives, but there was a damn good reason why many of those (non-Nintendo) exclusives were never brought over to other platforms. Same applies to PC. Exclusives only matter when people only on other platforms get jealous of them.

StingingVelvet: I always assumed it was to keep multiplayer balanced. They could do it for just singleplayer though, which is all I would care about anyway.