badgenome said:
Atari must have the capability to publish their own games in Europe, since they do so for Namco. Also, the non-Sony versions are still planned for a PAL release by Atari, so I think it's pretty obvious that $ony bought themselves a timed exclusivity deal. And Microsoft certainly did distribute The Lost & Damned, since it was DLC. |
Never the less, Sony is still shelling out money for a reason, It's going to have costs incured with publishing the game, as opposed to just throwing money to make the other versions go away. And although Atari could probably have published the whole thing themselves, if you followed the history of this game, it seems that no one really wanted to. With all the companies it was passed to, who knows, maybe Atari wanted to get rid of the whole thing, and Sony would only take part of the publishing needs.
Also, you actually paid for the distribution of the lost and the damned with your gold membership. :D