Remember how those NEOGAF "insiders" kept claiming Microsoft moneyhatted the game so that it wouldnt be on a Sony console? Guess what? Like most of the rest of their leaks, it turned out to be complete rubbish. Today Geoff Keighly released his Final Hours of Titanfall. And in it they talk about how Respawn kept going to Sony asking them to get on board with the game and Sony kept refusing. The game almost didn't get made because Respawn ran out of funding. EA wouldn't spend anymore and they needed someone to foot the bill(remember, Respawn is an EA Partner, not an EA studio). Microsoft stepped in and spent the money. They didn't pay to make a finished game an exclusive. They paid to finish a game and in doing so secured an exclusive. Just another one of many huge mistakes made by Cboat, Famousmortimer, Thuway etc etc etc.

Last month Famousmortimer even claimed that he knew for a fact Sony went to Respawn and said, "See, this is how much money you're losing by not bringing this game to PS4." Another load of rubbish since we now know Respawn went to Sony first. Not just once either. Multiple times they went to Sony, and Sony turned them away.

Here's the quote from Famousmortimer that we now know he made up out of thin air or believed the word of one of his fellow fanboys that it was true, but it in fact was a complete fabrication:

The Final Hours is a pay-to-read (well worth it too) in depth article. So I'm not linking to it. You can find it on iTunes and Steam.

Welcome, time traveler from distant pasts! Thy news is already well known in our times, as thou hast traveled to the year of 2014 by unknown means.

Be content, we mean thee no harm.

Face it, everybody wants to bash XBOX because it's cool now. Everything Microsoft does for now on will be ridiculed by the gaming landscape.

Respawn = EA now?

When they say "ask Sony to get on board" what they mean is "pay for the games development" wich Sony would obviously not do cause they fund theyre own studios. MS came with the money and bought the exclusivity by funding the project. And Titanfall would definetly have made throngs more of money if it had been multiplataform, but this exclusive deal was the only way it would even exist so it turned out to be a great deal for both parts involved.

The one part that is realy to blame on this whole story is EA, wich is dirty rich and yet didnt want to bank the games development cause it was somewhat risky.

LOL, I remember the thread where they quoted famousmortimer words.

Anyhow, if they did indeed save the game from not being completed I am very happy they did. I play Titanfall quite often.

Who cares if Sony said no, EA wouldn't even put up the money and they are publishing it. To me it seems like Respawn were asking for money before they had enough to warrant it, they were asking for other people to pay for development. They were asking on the 2 main guys reputation and this is a risk. One MS decided to take, yet I'm thinking it doesn't matter, it's out and selling well. Not like EA paid for the advertising it is.

Old news... I was eve banned when this one was posted.

this.   holy crap this OP is late.

Dammit, Selnor! You just had lag or something.