Last gen was really the beginning of buying out timed-features(ie Call of Duty DLC being available on X360 a month prior to the PS3) and/or permanently exclusive DLC/features on either console. MGS4 would have never run on 360 because it would have needed like 6 disks minumum to run but we did see MS entice Epic into makin Gears of War for the 360 and I'm sure Sony did something similar.  That seems to have manifested into completely paying off/contracting a studio to make a game entirely for your console. We saw glimpses of these practices in previous generations(Sony supposedly made a deal with Eidos to keep Tomb Raider exclusive to PS1 although it would have never run on N64 and the Saturn basically tanked by the time so I'm not sure on the validity of this notion) but this generation it is in full force. Hell, MS essentially bought out Bungie during 6th generation after seeing Halo. Same with Sony and Naughty Dog which to me was akin to Nintendo's aquisition of Rare in that Rare/Naughty Dog produce amazing games, although Rare was gone to shit after the founders left whilst Naughty Dog has blossomed even more.

Thats what Phil says, but...but...:

Yoshida says:

Allow Naoki Yoshida to explain why. Speaking with RPGSite, the new director of FFXIV pointed a finger at Xbox Live's cross-platform policies—games on Microsoft's online platform generally can't share servers with games on other platforms. In other words, if you played the online game on Xbox 360, you wouldn't be able to play in the same world as people on PlayStation 3.

http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xiv-isnt-coming-to-xbox-because-of-a-sil-723669207

Exposed?

Lol right like moneyhatting is new.

God dammit Phil...You did so well for a while, what's going on? We already know why FF didn't come to Xbox, and it's not the reason you're saying it is.

R&C and some others games mentioned here aren't your usual 3rd party games , they are IP's owned and published by the Console makers, I think I'm safe in saying it would be a lot more controversial in those cases if they weren't being published by their owners.

Lol so many Phil quotes lately.

Must be getting jealous of Sony's tgs showing this week with all the new games coming from tecmo and square enix.


Xbox: " look at me gamers, I'm still here. Play with me. Look see, we've got good guy Phil here. You guys love him right? 'Whispers in Phil's ear, : quick say something Phil"

Phil: 'uhhh..... How bout that halo 5 guys amirite?"

Gamers: "crickets"

Let me fire up my PRBull to English translator again:
"FFXIV is all about business. Square Enix tried to give it to us for free, we wanted none of it. We told them we would rather pay them good money to keep some games away from PS4 than pay nothing to have it on both consoles."
"But now that our moneyhat backfired, we realize that we made a huge mistake, but our pride won't allow us to accept freebies. We are just too used to paying for exclusivity."

Hold on.... Isn't FF 14 on Windows?

FFXIV is on PC, PS3, and PS4, I thought Windows was a Microsoft Platform.

Cough, Tomb Raider cough cough cough COUGH

FFXIV is also ON PC