Will M$ continue to buy out popular franchises?

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Reasonable said:
They might. Clearly MS has the smallest first party capability of the 3 main players, plus it's now a given most third party developers will go multi-platform in the majority of cases - so MS will have to invest in exclusives.

I don't really see them as buying Sony exclusives, though. SE for example are free to put their games on whatever platform they want, including 360. The major Sony / Nintendo franchises belong to them and are therefore out of reach. Anything else is just business.

it would be resonable if it was the wii, you dont see people saying this for nintendo, for dragon quest X or monster hunter 3.

because wii have the highest user base in japan and they likely to do better there as exclusives  than on the ps3 or the 360,

but exclusive to the lowest selling consoles ever in japan?.

and whatever multiplatform there will sell X4 on the ps3 (and growing).

even exclusikve WKC sold over 350k in japan alone, it doesn't make sense.

and microsoft have said tons of time they will "break the bank" for timed exclusives or DLC.