Of course not. Why in the world would they sell the IP to MS. PS4 is selling at record levels while the X1 continues to flounder and people expect them to shackle themselves to the console that will be a very distant second or even third? Especially when Vince wants this to be the next big thing, the new "CoD". Get it together fellas. 

I feel bad for him. Honestly, why did he go from Activision to EA?! Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire. Can't really blame him. Getting a new IP off the ground is a very hard and expensive. I hope he has plans to make Respawn more indepent after Titanfall succeds. This man is too rich to be in it for the money. I think his ambitio is to create a game bigger than CoD while maintaining control of the IP.

I think they went with EA since they have some sort of program to start up new development teams. IMO, it'd be amazing if they leave EA aftert this game and go with an other studio, Ubisoft seems like a good one. They are willing to let developers polish their games, and Ubisoft doesn't have a big FPS.
Also, a deal to make the game Xbox only for good seems highly unlike IMO. Lets say this game becomes a $1bil profit franchise. You could split profits up like this: PS: $333mil, XB: $333mil, PC $333mil. That would mean you would drop around $333mil with every release in potentional profits, possibly more. With 3 games, that's already $1bil or more lost in potentional profits. No way Respawn (and EA) will just leave that money.

I just don't get it. How does the game end up getting a lifetime exclusivity to MS platforms without their approval? Clearly if Respawn owns the IP, EA can't just make such an exclusivity deal without the permission of Respawn.

In that case, Respawn clearly WANTED the game to be exclusive to MS platforms for whatever reason. So, why don't they just come out and admit that rather than dancing around the topic giving vaguely defensive answers such as "We didn't know" and "We didn't sell it", and following them up with "We own the IP". This is getting ridiculous.

Update: ''Talked with @geoffkeighley and it looks like the 'future' thing is just something fun. Not how I would have described it, but still fun.''

Talked with @geoffkeighley and it looks like the 'future' thing is just something fun. Not how I would have described it, but still fun.

— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) March 8, 2014

Nobody seems to know... Even the people announcing it...

He is not happy with EA lol

Yet.

It's not Zampella's fault that MS and EA are making business deals instead of thinking about whats best for the franchise. EA is smarter than that, but they let Microsoft's money do the talking when whatever they paid wont be as much as the full multiplatform profit potential.

The way he's writing about not knowing anything makes it sound like he's kind of upset. Why is being totally kept in the dark?