3rd Party Exclusives

[spammythesmartone]

Michael-5 said:

fps_d0minat0r said:

Hey,

Ok i wanted to make this thread because i realised where i was having the original discussion (dark sould thread), it was going off the point.

so heres the debate.

Demons Souls is an exclusive IP owned by Sony who helped FromSoftware, a third party developer to create it. Now as you can see from the Dark Souls trailer, its basically a rip off, of Demons souls and appears to be using the same technology from DS. The only difference is they changed the name (half of it) to avoid sony's copyrights and released it multiplatform. so congratulations more people get to play a great game.

but heres the problem...

This might be a one off but what if more 3rd party developers start doing this in the future? what would be the implications and how would platform holders react?

This happened to the 360 years ago. Remember Lost Planet, Bioshock, Oblivion, GTA Expansions, and Ninja Gaiden 2 being "timed" exclusives? More recently Mass Effect 2. Then their sequels became full out multiplatform games.

Also Test Drive went from 360 exclusive to multi-platform for the sequel.

It doesn't matter if the IP is owned by MS or Sony, the situation is 3rd party exclusive going multiplatform.

For the market, I think it's a good thing. It puts a larger emphasis on Sony and Microsoft to develop their own good first party exclusives, evens out the market between the HD platforms, and means that gamers are less likely to be dissapointed when a game they want isn't available on their platform.

Think about all the JRPG 360 fans, they finally get to play this awesome franchise.

Then why are there so many 3rd party exclusives coming out for ps3 this year if they are going multiplat? MS didn't own any of the IPs they just paid the devs to keep it off ps3 for a year, with the exception of ME they sold that to EA