DOATS1 on 16 October 2008
| Dodece said: Firstly I would like to say that the Sony fanatics need to stop with the whining. You are not entitled to anything. Buying your console did not entitle you to certain titles. Stop behaving like spoiled brats for goodness sake. Sony owes you, and not the third parties. People who own something have a right to use it as they see fit. Your assumptions are what is at fault here not third parties or even companies you do not do business with. Sony had the opportunity, and they may have used it to secure permanent exclusivity. Now if they had not done so then that would be a failure of Sony. Not a failure of Konami, and most certainly it would not be a failure of Microsoft to secure another good title for their library. Microsoft would have done right by their customers while Sony would have done poorly for their customers. Microsoft is not stealing games from Sony. Microsoft is securing games for their console. They are doing this by having a better financial framework in place for their console. They are obviously providing better financial incentives, and better support to third parties. I cannot see what Microsoft is doing here as bad for the industry or for gamers. Obviously Microsoft's public relations are going to be strong on their console, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is false. Anymore then Konami talking up the exclusivity is necessarily true. What I do know is that where there is a will there is usually a way. The only question is really the competence of the developer. Some developers can spin straw into gold, and others cannot. |
personally, i think sony to an extent are able to 'secure', these games if they really wanted to. but i think they're heading in a new direction. they want to house as many of their top games on their console as possible (like nintendo), so they're making new ones. i don't think sony wants to waste their time on franchises in their 4th, 5th, 6th, and 13th itterations.
this is great because it means that their success won't lie entirely on third party developers. they probably realise that at a financial standpoint, they can't all out compete with ms, and even if they could, the price to secure exclusivity could soar to unneccesary heights. what would be the point after that?
