Sony on 3rd party exclusivity

[bobobologna]

Fumanchu said:

bobobologna said:

Fumanchu said:
Jeez wasn't that nice of Sony just "offering" to publish the game in Europe and I guess it was Namco Bandai that insisted that the other completed 'gold' versions of the game just sit there. Give me a break what do you want a smoking gun??

Evidence would be nice.

I don't know who you think I am, but I am neither a party to Sony or Atari, nor am I privy to their contractural litigation terms of agreements. 

Do you have the signed contract pages of Microsoft securing time-exclusivity periods for Tales of Vesperia or Star Ocean?? 

Um, when did I accuse Microsoft of paying for timed exclusive rights for those games?

However, since you asked so nicely:  http://kotaku.com/5360375/japanese-developer-microsoft-making-ps3-development-easier-%5Bupdate%5D

It's not solid evidence.  And I'll never accuse Microsoft of moneyhatting for those exclusives (and I don't think I ever have).  But it does offer some insight into something Microsoft could have possibly done to get Japanese developers to make so many XBox360 timed exclusives.