BMaker11 said:
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? |
Considering what the install bases were when these games were announced/released I doubt MS had to shell out much money, if any at all for most of them. Developers saw that costs of porting were low and potential gains were high. In the case of Assassin's Creed and GTA they scored huge, which could have considered other devs to consider 306 multi as an option.
@topic: I am in the camp that would rather see MS build a stronger first party because the whole timed exclusive thing has been played out so many times that nobody believes a developer who says a game is xbox exclusive, and the benefit to the platform is zero. I think the money would be much better spent elsewhere.
