CGI-Quality said:
Well as Sony had to learn going from PS2 - PS3, that may not look well in the future. Having internal studios is always better than having to deal with IPs you don't own, even if you pay money. Just look at how many once exclusive titles have gone multiplat. |
Well there's a couple of things wrong with that. With Sony dominating marketshare with the PS2, I don't think they actually 'paid' for many of the third-party titles they had gifted as exclusives. Secondly, I don't think Sony bought any new developers this generation(?), and with the early financial burden of the PS3's costs I'm not sure they have the luxury to offer developers bags of cash. I'm just saying that I don't think Microsoft will be in the same situation, and I don't know why we're supposed to care that Lost Odyssey, Splinter Cell or Crackdown weren't first-party internal studio offerings?
