Torillian said:
Fumanchu said:
CGI-Quality said:
Fumanchu said:
It seems like there's undue emphasis on the importance of first-party developers here. Why should anyone care if Microsoft pays third-parties for more exclusives instead of owning the developer?
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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.
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Secondly, I don't think Sony bought any new developers this generation(?)
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nope they've bought a couple iirc, definitely Media Molecule (the LBP guys) as well as a smaller studio that was working on a game where you use recorded sounds to solve puzzles (not sure if they're going to make their own game or help with the games of others but they're definitely developers)
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They bought Guerilla and Zipper in 2006, Evolution and bigBig in 2007, Media Molecule in 2010. That's more than they bought in the PS2 era (just Naughty Dog and Bend iirc), and PS1 era (Psygnosis, which admittedly was HUGE).
