Good for the company that they're looking out for profits, bad for PS3 exclusive count, because MS is also bringing in developers to its first party, but on top of that, they are securing exclusivity deals, and taking the free exclusivity Sony has enjoyed for a while, away from the console.
Publishers like Square-Enix can and will obviously go to the highest bidder. If Sony isn't bidding anything, they're not gonna keep a lot of exclusives, and the 360 might even get a couple.
It appears Konami and Kojima are ready to go multiplat with their development next wave of games according to his recent comments about MGS4(Not MGS4 itself, but Kojima said he's be open to developing on the PC and porting to consoles, so people would stop bothering him about hardware). You know Capcom is down for anything that makes them money in any way.
I mean, Sony can talk about how they aren't gonna spend any money on publishers anymore, all they want, but there are times when you need to move a little money around to keep up. It's hard to get into specifics without someone trying to burn me down, but let's say Microsoft starts paying EA to release their games a week early on the 360. Sony would have to respond to that. Their, "We don't negotiate with terrorists" motto just can't hold water for too long, when publishers have nothing to lose but free Microsoft money.
Sony didn't beat Nintendo for 2 generations by NOT spending money on 3rd party publishers.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
