Exclusives have been around since day 1. It’s a core part of the gaming industry (and most industries).
Full exclusives, you know exactly where to stand. Want Mario? It’s on Nintendo. God of War? Buy Playstation. Starfield? Xbox.
Timed exclusive, no. It doesn’t stop you completely from getting it (provided you don’t want to make a permanent purchase of console). It just tells you ‘’no, your team has to wait a year’’. It’s the cheapest way by companies to try to get consoles being purchased, vulturing on people who just want to play games on their system, banking on impatience.
Try to stand in line for a while, waiting to go inside, and when it’s your turn, someone tells you to go back at the very end of the line. And then proceeds to let other people in. Worst than knowing you can’t enter that place from the beginning. Period