jarrod said: Not enough, considering 99% of 3rd party games on the HD systems are multiplatform. I wish MS would really throw their weight around for a change, we haven't seen much significant spending from them this gen besides Mistwalker and GTA DLC. :/ |
I guess they could spend more, but a lot of people (not saying you do specifically) seem to think they have bottomless pockets. This isn't really true. They do have huge reserves, but as a publicily traded company with shareholders they cannot spend those reserves beyond certain reasonable limits without taking a lot of flak.
360, etc. is still not their main earnings stream, and they cannot spend endlessly on it out of proportion to what it contributes vs other areas of the business. To do so could garner very negative analyst and investor attention and harm their financial position on the markets.
I think looking at current position we're not going to see quite as much of the GTA IV DLC type investment for a while. Instead I expect:
1 - investment in timed exclusive DLC particularly for high profile and US/Europe centric titles like MW2
2 - investment in Natal exclusives and marketing
3 - investments in a few high profile titles, probably more in terms of backing the developer a'la Alan Wake but not going crazy with this
4 - investments in 360 extension services like Facebook, Netflix, etc. as they strive to keep Live ahead of PSN for features
5 - investments in Live itself (interface, content, community services, etc).
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...