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nightsurge on 21 January 2010
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supercat said:
nightsurge said:
supercat said:
All Pachter is saying is that epic wont like being locked into supporting just the 360, when the PS3-slim has really been a game changer and that it makes a lot more sense to support the PS3 now. That's it and the idea that the PS3 would get more attention from developers is only obvious given its sales lately.

If thats what he is saying, then all the PS3 first party devs must be up in arms over the larger userbase on 360 this whole time that could have doubled up or more on all of their sales!!!

No.  Sony has had to moneyhat significantly, or else why would they even have 1st party developers up until recently?  What passes for critical thinking around here ..

I still don't follow you nor Pachter's logic.  Microsoft obviously offered them an incentive in this deal, same as any 1st/2nd/3rd party developer.  Yes, first party developers are now "owned" by that company, but they only came to such a stance via the same type of incentives that are offered to third or second party devs.  You don't sign contracts for exclusivity/ownership without some sort of incentives!

So as I said, if that's really what Pachter is saying, then any and all devs on either platform should be crying rivers because of all the lost profit thanks to their exclusivity ties.  If every dev actually thought like Pachter we'd have no exclusives left at all.