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Harvey Randall

Former PlayStation boss calls exclusivity the industry's 'Achilles' heel … Helldivers 2 has shown that'

Two Helldivers share a tender moment in Helldivers 2, while Automatons ravage the landscape behind them with explosions.

As PC players, we've had ample reason to gripe about the culture of console exclusivity for some time—these games are running on hardware that's often a smidge outdated by the time it hits the shelves, yet we can't get our grubby little mitts on them? 

Granted, there's plenty of reasons as to why a dev team would want to optimise something for a specific loadout—the PC's breadth of potential compatibility issues are a complete nightmare, especially as games get bigger in scope.

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