Can the 360 hit the "Exclusivity line"?

[Dodece]

@shams

You make a great point about the financial situation. As time goes on it will become even cheaper for Microsoft to buy exclusives. In fact they have a buyers market on their hands. Right now the prices at least should not increase for them. The only thing that has fundamentally changed is a weakening economy which should make developers more interested in selling exclusivity if nothing else to get to cash sooner.

I find it highly entertaining how last year it was Microsoft buying exclusives. Then this year it was about the price of the hardware. So everyone is fixated on hardware prices. Almost forgetting Microsoft's penchant for purchasing exclusives. Which is why next year many members of this community will be blindsided again. Microsoft is going to return to their strategy of the first year. Winning the software war through third party exclusivity. They are not going to continue cutting the price of their hardware. They are going to take advantage of the pricing fixation. They are going to binge.

Sony will not be able to afford to do both. Match Microsoft on the pricing front, and entertain a bidding war on the other. That means Microsoft can snatch up very lucrative properties, and snatch up a great many. Enough to feed their console for two or even three years. Best of all for Microsoft it will be relatively cheap. With Sony out of the picture, and a faltering economy. Microsoft is going to find plenty of takers.