same reason as discounts after a few years
games, movies, books, they're all more valuable when they're released
granting exclusivity for that pariod of hightened value is a half measure of granting total exclusivity
>>713427091 (OP)
Tricking retards into buying a specific platform. If GTA VI was a PS5 exclusive for a week, 99% of the first month sales would come from there and Sony would sell a ton of PS5s.
>>713427971
That's how it was for a long time, market showed it's not as profitable. You can just bribe a dev for a timed exclusive, while a perpetual exclusive would cost a lot more and would probably mean deep involvement during development.