Reasons for why Microsoft has timed exclusives (NO TROlLS OR HATERS HERE)

[themanwithnoname]

BMaker11 said:

Garnett said:

BMaker11 said:
My thoughts: Microsoft has to settle for timed exclusivity because 3rd parties want to put their games on the Sony platform, but Microsoft has no real 1st party to really support them otherwise. So they have to give out the $$$ to make it seem like the 360 is that much better than the PS3. It's a rouse, I tell ya

Yeah! Just like LA Nore!

 

oh wait....

LA Noire is releasing day and date.....it may have been PS3 exclusive at first, at least thought to be....but at the same time, when we had those thoughts, the game was as good as vaporware. It'd be different if it were PS3 timed exclusive...which the PS3 has just about none of.

LA Noire is no different than Assassin's Creed, Devil May Cry 4, Tekken 6, FFXIII, and GTAIV. Developed supposedly for PS3 exclusively...yet end up on the 360 day and date. Again, Microsoft shelling out money to get a game that's going to be on the PS3 anyway. What're you getting at?

Please show the proof that they "shelled out money." Sony had plenty of opportunity to lock most of, if not all of those games up, and they didn't. Why would they stay exclusive without some money from Sony, sheer blind loyalty? In fact, I'd say that letting Final Fantasy XIII go multiplat is one of the most boneheaded things Sony's done this gen (and yes, they could've kept it exclusive if they wanted to, let's not kid ourselves).

Anyway, I'm happy with Microsoft's business model from a business and consumer perspective. Just take a look at how poorly about 90% of these games sell on the second platform compared to the first. The only downside to timed exclusives imo is that they can no longer be used by your fans in list wars, but who cares anyway? By the time it hits the second platform, they've pretty much gotten almost all of the sales they're going to get from it being exclusive, and it's cheaper than making it a pure exclusive anyway. As a gamer, I bought Star Ocean last February, when there was virtually nothing else releasing for the 360. I don't have to worry about playing it now, as I'm plowing through Mass Effect 2 and have so many other games coming out this year to play. Most the time, the additions they make to the game when they release the PS3 version isn't worth waiting a year or longer to play it imo.