zarx on 01 November 2011
| kain_kusanagi said: It makes total sense to me. Microsoft owns the IP. Sony wouldn't let Insomniac release a Xbox 360 version of Resistance. What I don't understand is why Microsoft let the developer look around for a publisher. Why didn't Microsoft just tell them they had to make a Xbox 360 exclusive or they would find another dev to do it? |
For the first bit read the thread, But as for the seccond bit
Because Microsoft had no plans to make a Mechwarrior game they had licenced the rights back to the creator of the battletech universe with the caveat that games couldn't be launched on competing platforms. Piranna games had no direct dealings with MS other than pitching the game to them and others while looking for a publisher, Microsoft had no other involvement with the game, and didn't want anything to do with it.
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