makingmusic476 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Well the thing about third gen is that first party titles are becoming holy and third parties are mostly dying off like the plague, unless you have the IP under your control. With Gears, Microsoft doesn't own the IP. Microsoft only has a three game contract with Epic, which expires after Gears 3 launches. Sony lost the first half of the gen to Microsoft because of the loss of third party exclusives, which is why they now solely depend on their in-house first party. Sony is taking exclusives from Microsoft and now Microsoft can barely fend for itself with first parties. It's interesting how this has all played out.
As for Fable 3....Microsoft knows not what exclusive means. Anyone can get their hands on Fable now, even the pirates.
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Actually, they had a two game contract with Epic. The fact that Epic continued to work with Microsoft for Gears 3 shows they're quite comfortable where they are.
That could easily change in the transition between generations, however, as things often do. Just look at the PS3 this gen. If Sony hadn't had an army of first party developers to fall back on, they'd currently be a distant third, if they were still selling consoles at all.
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Well Microsoft can thank their lucky stars that they have a third party who is happy with only making half what they could make as an exclusive.
