Will M$ continue to buy out popular franchises?

[Reasonable]

Xoj said:

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.

I'm just saying while MS are undoutably paying (in some form or another) for certain titles or DLC, they aren't really able to touch true 1st party Sony / Nintendo exclusives.

Just because a third party studio previously released on one platform (for cost reasons or whatever) doesn't mean they will stay exclusive.

As for jRPGs - I agree, but remember 360 released first, and was available to develop for first.  MS either funded titles or got them first by default, but soon you'll see Tales, etc. on PS3 and now such titles will most likely be multi-platform from the start.

I prefer having you own studios to funding titles like MS does, but that doesn't make it somehow unfair.

In the end, if MS have to pay way over the odds for titles and DLC then in the end it will affect the profits of their gaming division unless they secure a dominant lead (which clearly isn't going to happen).