JonnyAtlas said: I think what CGI is forgetting in this discussion is the fact that the "Games for Windows Live" = same brand (just as PS3 and PSP are the "same brand" in his eyes). M$ is getting a chunk of each of those sales (which are being played on one of their "systems", lest we forget M$ has a massive market share on the personal computer). They still require a Live membership on top of it (Sliver to play/save, Gold for multiplayer), so the only real difference for M$ is which package it sells in. So, in that sense, there is no more basis for excluding exclusives like Gears than there is for excluding exclusives like LBP. They are still exclusive to M$ as a brand.
What you're forgetting is
The same experience! Or take Mass Effect 2 for example:
The same experience. But as for the PSP/PS3 argument.
Not the same experience. Its not even the same game. Non, or very few, of the levels of LBP PSP are in the PS3 version.
Exclusives matters.. no matter how the economics of releasing multiplatform games works. You get the same experience playing L4D2 on the 360 as you do on the PC. And thats not the case with the PSP/PS3.
As for the same brand. Nobody is thinking "oh i bought myself a cool new Microsoft computer". But people do think "oh i bought myself a playstation portable or playstation 3". Thats where exclusives play their part. If you can brand exclusives to your hardware, people will eventually buy it. But if they can get their hands on it on another platform that they already have, they're not going to add that to the incentive to purchase a games console. In SONYs case, if you own a PS3 and you like LBP, releasing it on the PSP wont reduce the urge to get a game you like in a portable way. It wont hinder PSP sales, or PS3 sales.
Microsoft knows this, and thats why they have certain games as exclusives. Halo for example would be a perfect PC game with the FPS competitiveness.
Again, you seem to be the only one that gets it.
I thought I was the only one that got it! I have a PC and a X360 and the only games I got on my X360 is Halo 3 and Gears 2. I want games I can't experience on my PC (and that I have a general interest in ofcourse xD).
