Microsoft Blocking the PS3 Version Caused the Death (and Rebirth) of the MechWarrior Reboot

[zarx]

kain_kusanagi said:

zarx said:

MrBubbles said:
honestly you are obviously just being a troll. microsoft owns it and you with all these semantics is just plain annoying and stupid. microsoft OWNS ALL RIGHTS TO THESE VIDEO GAMES. who the fuck cares if they dont own the BOARD GAMES RIGHTS, because in case you didnt notice this is about a VIDEO GAME...WHICH THEY OWN THE RIGHTS TO.

No I was just correcting a simple missunderstanding, saying MS owns the Mechwarrior IP is like saying that Activision owns the Spiderman IP, it's just wrong.

MS does own the video game Mechwarrior IP just like Activision owns the video game Spiderman IP and 007 IP. What else would we be talking about?

To say MS is blocking Mechwarrior for PS3 is like saying Sony is blocking Resistance for Xbox 360, it's just plain wrong.

Seriously, if MS wanted to they could toss the Mechwarrior IP in a box and sit on it. They don't have to do anything with it if they don't think it will make money.

No they own the rights to make games bassed on the IP, how is this hard to undserstand? Why are poeple agueing with this simple fact?

No it's not because Sony publish those games and fund them, the Mechwarrior reboot was externally developed and looking for external funding as MS turned it down, but publishers didn't want to pick the game up for funding as they couldn't make a PS3 SKU because when MS licenced out the rights they didn't let the series appear on competing plaatforms. Unlike Resistance where Sony owns the IP and decide what games get made by who MS never owned those rights (Topps could block a MS Mechwarrior if they wanted to) and they licenced the rights to make games bassed on the IP to someone else who now controls whether or not games bassed on the IP can be made, exept they can't be on a competitors system.

The resault may be the same but funcionally it very different. But that is beside the point as all I was ever doing was pointing out that MS don't actually own the IP just the rights, you know as a freindly FYI.

And as for yor last point they could have 3 years ago but they sold those rights to someone else instead...