Why is sony getting exclusive content?

[Torillian]

Kasz216 said:

Torillian said:

LA Noire and Dead Space 2 I'd say yes they paid something or did some deal or another.

Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 I think it's unlikely.  Kratos was just a great guest character for MK and MS would have had everything Sony had for Portal 2 if they let Steam work on the 360.  Since they don't, they don't.

I'd... mostly agree.  I don't know though.  Kratos is a perfect fit... yet it feels odd that they would just 1-side it like that with no benefit.  Espeically since Mocapping still isn't that cheap is it?

Why risk antagonizing 360 fans for nothing.  I'm sure the benefit was small, but they surely got something....

or just have trouble with MS making finding an exclusive char for them... which as weird as MS can be could be a possibility.

well iirc the 360 version did get some stuff like an exclusive arena and some mode that I can't remember off the top of my head, if it was paid for I'd expect the 360 version to not get jack diddly shit in compensation like with Batman AA.  Mostly I think that it was just like Soul Caliber (sp) except that the MK guys didn't want to go with something generic like Spawn for the 360 version.  There really isn't an easy first party character that fits into MK except for the more obscure like Killer Instinct but perhaps the MK guys didn't want to help bring back one of their direct competitors, and so you're at a standstill.  So PS3 gets Kratos because it fits perfectly and Sony has all the rights over him, and 360 gets some other stuff because there really isn't an easy fit among MS IP's.