freebs2 said:
EdStation3 said:
freebs2 said:
Matter of fact Resident Evil came out some year later on Dreamcast, Resident Evil 2 also on N64....Metal Gear Solid 2 and GTAs came out some years later on xbox.....not to mention that all 3rd party exclusives were lost when sony started to run out of money.....GTA4/FFXII/Tekken6/Resident Evil 5 and those aren't exclusives, it's not like microsoft has paid for them to be muliplatform. |
Yes it did. Developers exercized for freedom so it wasn't really bribing was it. Bribing is a MS trademark. "Oh cool, look at that amazing game on PS2.....go over give him $10million and tell them they can't develop exclusive games for any PS console" Microsoft takes pride in bribing developers so it's Xbribe 360. They paid $50m for...2 episodes. Not even 2 games...episodes. That's how proud they are in their practicses. Also when they took Rare from Nintendo it was a record setting deal if Im not mistaken. MS is an untalented spoiled rich kid that shows up to the talent show and just pays everyone off and gets all the credit yet brings no actual talent to the show.
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Has I said before I'm not defending microsoft....I just say that sony are working in the same way, the only difference is that sony in the past could afford to buy exclusives not they can't beacuse of microsoft....it's easy to be the market leader when you can afford to spend 4 times more than your competitors and as Legend11 said before Nintendo was willing to sell Rare matter of fact, some of their key game diretors, like Martin Hollis for example had lelf Rare some years before microsoft bought it.
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Sony's previous overwhelming leadership position likely also meant that "buying exclusives" was cheaper and easier, given they already had that gigantic userbase as the first carrot to dangle. They bought off Soulcalibur 3 for likely much less than it would've taken to do the same for Soulcalibur 4 for example.
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