For me, a "major exclusive" is one that receives critical and commercial success.
I disagree. The definition might be acceptable in a perfect world. You and I don't live there. Also, while game journalism generally sucks today it was far worse in 1995. I remember one magazine declared that ToShinDen was far superior to Virtua Fighter. I found that laughable then and certainly laughable today. So to say that critics scored MK3 poorly means nothing. Although I admit it's not a masterpiece.


I'm always fascinated by the varied perceptions of why a game system failed or succeeded. In my eyes, MK3 had virtually nothing to do with the PS1's success, but you consider it a "major exclusive." Another person in the forums blames piracy as a primary cause for the failure of the Dreamcast, while I believe that piracy was a non-factor--that SEGA's marketing sucked, it couldn't rebuild its burned bridges with fanbois and retailers, and everyone (publishers, consumers, journos) was killing time 'til the PS2.

Ah, well. We agree to disagree, anyway
I am glad you're fascinated by such things. Go back and look at magazines and ask people, ask your journo buddies, Mortal Kombat was still a major deal in 1995. MK was past its prime, but it still was a major deal. Major enough to advertise on television when the arcade version was coming out. Major enough for SOny to secure the exclusive 32bit rights to. That sounds major Major Meston! Jog that memory some more fella.

I agree to that we clearly disagree.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM