Sony to Focus on Exclusive Content for Multi-Platform Titles

[Hephaestos]

Demonslayersoultaker said:

Hephaestos said:

LivingMetal said:

Interview with Sony's Scott McCarthy.

"The battle for 3rd party exclusives seems to be dwindling down this generation. More 3rd parties are choosing the multiplatform route. You guys have a few in your lineup — No More Heroes and Ar Tonelico 3 come to mind. Is Sony still working with 3rd parties to secure exclusives or…?

We work very closely with our 3rd parties publishers, not necessarily to lock down games exclusively, but to lock up exclusive parts of games. A good example is Batman: Arkham Asylum, where you could only play as the Joker on PlayStation 3. When you make a title exclusive, you limit its promotional power; we don’t want to do that. We want games to be as big as possible — it’s great for the industry. However, we want to make sure that you play it on the best system possible, so we like to take parts of games and make them exclusive to the PlayStation system."

The complete interview can be read here:

http://scrawlfx.com/2011/02/interview-sonys-scott-mccarthy-on-mlb-11-the-show-ps3-lineup-and-3rd-parties

gee I don't see the PS fans complaining to this as much as they did early in the gen when MS was doing the same thing. What did they call it, money hatting?

Sony's line-up is keeping us from complaining and anything they say off hand, and I'd also like to point out they haven't actually done it yet, so theres nothing really to complain about anyways 

yeah it's not like the Joker in batman was PS3 exclusive (is it now on 360 also?) or if Ghostbusters was timed exclusive in europe ^^ (i'm sure there are other examples of them not having done it yet).