Feylic said:
badgenome said:
Feylic said:
badgenome said:
Feylic said:
Squilliam said:
I guess both Micro$oft and $ony are evil money hatting corporations.  |
Sony is paying money to distribute the game on their systems.. How is that similar to throwing money at a company so that they only release it on one platform?
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Because they are throwing money at a company so that they only release it on Sony's platforms.
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Read the article again please. They are distributing the game on their platforms. Without a distributor, the game wouldn't get sent out at all. Where as MS didn't distrubute Star Ocean 4, or the GTA4 DLC, they just paid to have it come out on their system only.
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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. 
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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
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Yeah. It's amazing how far my $3/month goes.
