cry me a fucking river Phil... can you hear it? it's the sound of the world's smallest violin playing.

how's that Tomb Raider deal working out for you? How about Titanfall? gtfo!

Which is precisely why the title says "console exclusivity" and not simply "exclusivity".

It also says Sony bought console exclusivity when they didn't.

That is completely and entirely irrelevant to the inquiry I was answering in regards to that specific post. Thanks for your unneeded and completely obvious contribution though, I guess.

I miss Spin Spencer.... Lying Spencer isn't as fun....

Relax phil. It's not like u don't have best lineup in history. It's not like if this christmas isn't as good as the one before you will be considered responsible. Or not?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/console

If you take the definition to be exact, then the newest consoles aren't consoles either.  You can go on the internet, download apps to watch differen't programs, etc.   The PC is pretty much the definition of a console, though.

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Dr Henry Killinger was obviously making a jab towards users who say PC is also Microsoft because of Windows, you seemed to not catch on or wanted to pull a Phil Spencer and spin the conversation in another direction.

Your comment was just as irrelevant to his as mine was to yours.

Also, console in a gamers definition is a Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo, Sega, etc, but since you wanted me to stay on the topic that you wanted to steer the conversation to, I thought why not.

So the TR exclusivity deal wasn't hammered out on his watch? Or is he saying he's realised it was a bad idea because it looks like they'll get no benefit from it? Although arguably the reason they'll get no benefit from it is because they weren't willing to pay what it takes for RoTR to be permanently console exclusive.

Titanfall was definitely not on his watch because that deal would have been done pre-launch, which means Don Mattrick. Again, arguably this was a better deal because it was full console exclusive. The only thing wrong with it was the game didn't end up being "the next big thing". But at least Don went all in and made it full and proper exclusive, at least until TF2.

Of course in Mattrick's deal for TF was more honourable because he was funding a whole new IP.

Like others have said, my understanding was that FFXIV was kept off Xbox because they don't do cross platform play with Playstation. IMO everyone, not matter what console they prefer, should be demanding cross-platform play for most, if not all 3rd party multiplatform games. There is really no reason to keep online communities separate like this now that cross-platform MP play has been proven to work between PS3 and PC. Given how different these platforms are, if the developers could figure out a solution to achieve CPP between those platforms they can figure out CPP for PS4/PC/Xb one very easily. The only real negative is the advantage PC gamers have is when KB+M inputs are superior for a game (like FPS). But since I think PS4 and Xb one can both accept KB+M inputs it would be a self imposed disadvantage for console gamers who chose to play online without getting the peripheral hardware.

Oh hello there, Mr. Spencer. ;p

Wow, what a big PR lie, where is the good spencer ? its probably a clone !!