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pokoko on 27 September 2012
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kain_kusanagi said:
ethomaz said:

kain_kusanagi said:

The OP's logic is flawed and so is yours. The Gears of War series is published by MS and therefore it matters. Sony buys up developers and MS makes deals for publishing rights. The end result is the same.

ME1 is an exeption. There are always going to be special cases.

All that matters is what was published by Sony and MS.

So I do not understand your point. Geasr is not either exclusive or first-party.


Don't tell me your one of those guys who thinks that if it's also on MS Windows it isn't exclusive. Even if that were the case, only the first Gears of War got a MS Windows port. All the rest are only available on Xbox 360. But it doesn't matter. If MS publishes a title, it is essentialy theirs with an exception here or there.

Like I said. Sony and MS just go about things differently. Sony buys out devs to get exclusives. MS buys publishing rights to get exclusives. The end result is the same. Exclusive games published by them.

It doesn't matter how you define 1st party games because what really matters is if the games were published by Sony or Microsoft.

The difference is, if Epic ever wants to put Gears on other consoles, they can.  They own the IP, period.  Will they?  Probably not, I'm sure Microsoft shells out big to keep the frachise exclusive.

As for the OP, Microsoft tried to buy up timed exclusives at the start of the generation, but I don't think it worked out well for them.  Their new practice of buying up exclusive DLC seems to be the better route.  They're trying to entice people to buy 3rd party titles on their system and it's working reasonably well.  I don't think they have to change that model for the next gen.

Not sure why people have gotten ruffled over a simple question like this, though.