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9. Plentiful Exclusives
You could tell a lot about someone by what console they had in years gone by. PC players, PS1 fans and N64 devotees all played totally different games and in totally different ways. The different games media, controllers and developers made for totally different experiences. The dawn of the standard dual analogue stick setup and the death of the cartridge removed this barrier between systems though, leading to far fewer exclusives. This trend was pushed even further this generation, to the point where truly decisive system exclusives can often be counted on one hand.
