Competing console hardware often is very similar — similar horsepower, similar controllers, similar price points and so on. The biggest differential is software. First party software is important but so are third party exclusives and console makers like Sony and Microsoft will often pony up big bucks to get a hot title exclusively to their platform. However, not all exclusives are made equal.

Exclusive

A title which is released only for one platform

Timed Exclusive

A title which is released only for one platform for a set number of months then released to other platforms

Generational Exclusive

A title which is available for all older generation platforms but only for one next-generation platform

Re-Exclusive

A timed exclusive which reverted back into a true exclusive when no one on the second platform wanted the game and the publishers recalls all copies and buries them in the desert

Mexclusive

A title which is only available south of the border

Flexclusive

A title which is exclusive to one platform on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturday except on holidays

Chexclusive

A title which is only available as a cereal box bonus pack-in

Hexclusive

A title available only to covens

Lexclusive

A title available only to Superman’s nemesis

Nexclusive

A title available only to people willing to make-out with the platform manufacturer

Plexclusive

A title available only available to customers of the plaque-fighting mouthwash Plex

Rexclusive

A title available only to the world’s surviving royal families

Texclusive

A title available only available to places where the stars — at night — are big and bright

Vexclusive

Not sure about this one