IGN: Who can save the PS3?

[DirtyP2002]

markers said:
^the article wasnt about buying the developers, it was about cutting deals with them to get exclusives. alot cheaper than buying a company. and can be easily done by both sony and microsoft, just pay development and im sure and 3rd party would be happy to make the game exclusive

 

 Okay... still makes no sense. MS paid 50 million dollar for exclusive DLC for GTA IV. So what do you expect how much an exclusive game like Resident Evil might cost?

Resident Evil has a good chance to sell more than 2 million units on the Xbox360. Money that capcom want to receive. So if Sony wants to have RE5 exclusive, they need to pay the missed profit capcom would have made with a Xbox360-version + a bonus of course. That is a lot of money, too. For ONE game. One game won't change the outcome of the console-battle.

It is much easier to make exclusives multiplat than making multiplats exclusive.