Quite surprised Xbox isn't getting many 3rd party exclusives in 2009

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disolitude said:

CGI-Quality said:

perpride said:
Don't see your logic on Prototype as exclusive at All.

I do see his logic. It would have been a direct combatant to inFAMOUS. Question is, how much did Prototype take to develop. But then again, it wouldn't have mattered, as Microsoft, had it been a 360 exclusive, would have helped fund it, and there's nothing wrong with that. I say, the more exclusives, the better

So again, in Prototype's case, I understand him. In F.E.A.R. 2's and Riddick's cases, I'm not sure. But who knows, had those two been 360 exclusives, it would have been another reason to buy a 360, which probably WOULD have helped move a great deal more copies of those games. Microsoft are the GODS of marketing!

 

 

Lets look at Riddick...

It sold 150K on 360 and 70K on ps3 thus far. If atari announced this was a 360 exclusive, the 360 sales would most likely be around 200K now...considering the people that wanted to play the game and own both consoles but bought the ps3 version instead. Also, having a game be exclusive usually gets some free MS marketing on Live...so more sales

Also there would be no cost associated to porting this to ps3. Now you can't say that wouldn't be financially advisable for Atari.

 

 Not sure I understand the logic there...

You're saying that of the 70k PS3 owners that bought Riddick, 50k are multiconsole owners ????

More than doubtfull. try 5k instead....

 

Making a title like Riddick or FEAR 2 exclusive isn't going to boost its sales much...

Those games aren't much better than Too Human and we all saw how well the fact of being exclusive helped that games move a tonn of units...