| twintail said: Because gaming going forward is all about the eco-system. Considering Sony, as a whole, is making a large chunk of money from digital sales from the PS division, the more ppl they have committing to the eco-system now is beneficial for the future. This is why the PS5 also supports PS4 content: how likely is someone to jump over to a competing brand when they already have money invested digitally into PSN?
This doesn't even make sense. What makes you think that buying an exclusive or timed exclusive is resulting in extra money to polish up a game? What makes you think this content is automatically cut from other platforms? Like, is there hard proof of this? At the end of the day, a company is either getting a) an exclusive you will never play on another platform, b) a timed exclusive that you can eventually play, or c) timed content without stopping others from playing the core game day 1. I personally don't see the issue with timed content, but a whole year for a yearly IP is truly something else... I wonder what metrics Activision have at their perusal that they have no real issue with this. Surely money alone can't be the answer considering how much they rake in with game sales and microtransactions to begin with. |
Having a large ecosystem doesn't mean everything is going to be smooth sailing going forward. Look at the drop from ps2 to ps3, 360 to Xbox One, Wii to WiiU. Gamers don't commit to a system because of shitty anti-consumer practices like this. CoD is a yearly release, many CoD players are going to jump ship to the next one after it releases. How likely is someone going to jump ship to another brand? Lets ask the ps2 users who went to 360, and then 360 users to ps4. Gamers aren't as committed to a single brand as much as you think. Especially casual ones, which is the majority of the userbase for all systems.
When a game is exclusive to one platform, it much easier to spend time polishing the game and optimizing to said platform.
Considering this was a deal between publishers, Infinity Ward likely had the game mostly complete and knew what content was in the final game. I highly doubt Sony said, "Yeah we want this game mode to be exclusive" before they saw what the game mode was. Thus making it cut content.
I think you underestimate how greedy Activision is. Have you not seen the microtransactions in the last several CoD games?
