Re: Exclusives.
Why do you want such things?
In an ideal world there would be none, or consoles would be more like DVD players where it does not matter so much if I bought a fancy brand from country X or a cheapo brand from country Y as they all play the same thing.
Pending that I would rather have game with a potentially larger sales pool, able to spunk more money on development, or take more risks with development.
Likewise back when we had consoles people generally enjoyed, indy games and whatever else was it the exclusives or just the third party content? I go look at the likes of the NES, SNES, Megadrive, PS1, 360, GBA, DS, Amiga... it was not Nintendo, Sony, MS or Commodore that made them as great as they were but the third parties coming in and making games for them.
In turn I look at the Saturn, N64, to some extents the gamecube (it got more third party and thus was not as big a flop as the N64 but at the same time it was not lead/primary platform for anything, indeed you will probably find stories of how impressive soul calibur was doing on the gamecube), the early years of the PS3, the 3DS after everybody buggered off and went ios and android towards the end of the DS, the time PC gaming apparently died (though as ever nobody actually told me and I was having a great time, it was however perceived/imagined that devs were not bringing their titles to the PC).
Furthermore how many of said exclusives were there that defined a generation for you? How much more time do you spend on multi platform titles?
If figure if you want exclusives you are a fanboy, or at least don't know what you actually want. See the old Henry Ford quote about faster horses.
If exclusives are good for anything it is for the console makers, not you as gamers/consumers of the paid content.
Re: Why when PC exists.
Presumably because having a fire and forget box under your TV with games nominally built to take advantage of the controller is an easy sell. If people are so distraught at having to wander over to another game shop to buy a game on the same PC imagine how much nicer it is if you can just have it done for you.
As the hacker inclined GBAtemp user I would agree entirely that cheap games, cheats, mods, superior graphics if not at the time then in a few years when you spring for some upgrades, multiplayer possibly for years (though console vs PC multiplayer lifetimes are an interesting one), nice controls, easy storage and on and on and on are great reasons to have a PC, however, and as ever, "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" is not only the name of one of my favourite albums but a truism. I don't like it, and my entire life revolves around me skimming from those that play that way, but it is what it is.