Dianko on 15 February 2009
I thought by now, people would be aware of the deal with IU being exclusive. MS paid for that game to be made, it was never meant to go multiplatform and most likely never will. They got SE to publish it so that it would have a better chance at selling.
This is conjecture, but I was under the impression that SO4 exclusivity (at least timed) was also tied in with IU, in that the engine for SO4 being based off of IU's, which was paid for by MS. So from SE's perspective, they have to publish a mid tier game at minimal cost, and save millions on SO4's development in exchange for (timed) exclusivity.
