XBOX 720: Kits being sent out and Kinect 2 leaked

[Mazty]

JayWood2010 said:

Mazty said:

That's fair enough however the issue is that what this generation has shown is that the most money is in multiplatform games as you can reach a wider market that way. If you take the craptastic Dead Island, it still sold well over 2 million copies even though it was terrible. If it had been released on just one platform, the sales most likely wouldn't have been nearly as high. 
Therefore I do wonder, with that and the technical limitations of the consoles, if exclusives will become a much smaller entity, or if more will emerge on the PC. If we consider that the first UE4 games is a PC exclusive, that's promising, as well as knowing that UE4 required the gtx680 (or there abouts) to run - the kind of power a console won't be able to have. 

Yeah but see we are looking at how much something sold.  That doesn't tell us how much money that game made.  You need a company to to publish your games and then they may even provide the tools for you to develope that game.  My guess would be that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo pay developers more money than what EA/Activision/Ubisoft pays their developers.  Microsoft/Nintendo.Sony also advertises their games better than other publishers. I'm sure their is plenty of perks working under one of the big three or else comppanies wouldn't do it.  And when thrd party games go exclusive, you know they got paid a lot up front. I know Halo, Gears, Forza, Gran Turismo, Mario, Zelda, and tons more has made a lot of money.

Very true. 
IMO I think the next gen will see exclusives from consoles developers face off against engine developers. One side wants to promote their console whereas the other want to flog their engine as much as possible across all the platforms e.g. Epic and Crytek.

Personally there's no exclusives that interest me on the consoles as I've played them all before. I really hope the next gen offer some ground breaking games in the same way Prince of Persia or SotC were brilliant. Sadly this news of another kinect isn't filling me with hope - I want VR, not Eyetoy+