I laugh when some of you try to put Sony in a bad light because of their demand of extra content... OF COURSE they should get extra content for a game that is released 1 year after it has been released on their competitor's console. Otherwise Sony would be stupid, as they would not have any advantages over the price reduced 360 ToV version. Sony is no bad guy here, and both MS and Nintendo would do the exact same thing. In my opinion it is more morally wrong for a company like MS, with an endless sack of gold that no competitors could rival, to throw their money to devs left and right. I do not understand how some of you see Sony's actions as blackmailing and morally wrong when you obviously support all the moneyhats. They are both business practices, and I support Sony's practice a lot more than MS' in this case. I am not saying moneyhats are negative in all cases, and I guess it is a fairly good practice to help devs create their games more easily, but when this is the standard procedure you use trying to get games for your platform...
Also, I see some of you mention this is helping a lot of devs, etc, and YES it DOES, but MS is only moneyhatting huge franchises and devs anyways, not smaller devs that might need the money more than Namco Bandai and their "successful" Tales-series, or Enix's SO-series, or T2's Bioshock, or Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden... In my opinion, this shows that the moneyhatting is purely for MS' benefit and their's only. They want the huge franchises on their platform and away from Sony's. The main reason behind the moneyhatting is NOT to help devs in any way, but try to lure customers (mainly in Japan with the JRPGs) to buy the 360. Just like any other business practice out there.
As far as I know, Sony secures 3rd party exclusives because they have an interesting platform to develop on. Of course they might pay of devs as well, and I actually believe they do, but we have no information of such a thing to have taken place. Therefore I have to go under the assumption that Sony secure their 3rd party exclusives with the use of other methods than moneyhatting.
I applaud Sony this gen for showing the courage and skills to develop their own titles and not resort to paying devs off to keep their games exclusive (timed or fully) to their platform. This shows a internal strength and it's the reason why I always have and always will love and respect Nintendo as a company, even though they have been really stupid this gen.
Like, how is any of this any different than Sony (with IBM) funding the production and R&D of the 360's processor? Microsoft gets what they deserve... Hopefully sooner than expected Mr. Karma will come and kick them in the teeth.
