Sony on 3rd party exclusivity

[maverick40]

Tridrakious said:
This thread is still going? Wow.

Anyway, Sony hasn't paid for an exclusive.

With the Playstation Sony treated the 3rd party developers as one of their own. Because Sony wanted to learn the industry. Wanted to learn how to make games.

They made it very easy for companies to talk with them and work with them. In turn Sony made it very simple on the 3rd party devs to get tools for the Playstation.
PS1 sold over 105 million units.

PS2 had the track record out of the gate. Sony no longer needed to work so closely with the 3rd parties, but they didn't turn them away.
PS2 sold over 140 million units.

The PS3's problem? Sony became arrogant and an asshole. Treated the industry like it needed Sony to survive.

That was the PS3's problem. Now that Sony has fixed that, look at what's happened.

i agree completely.