forevercloud3000 said:
disolitude said:
Sevengen said:
Or why you'd proclaim loyalty to a gaming company that's only had 1 original idea for nearly two decades. Wait a minute, to be honest, Sony weren't the first ones to release a CD-based machine were they, so my mistake, make that 0 original ideas in nearly the past two decades. |
well to be fair sony did have an idea to sell hardware at a loss to squeeze the smaller guy. it worked until they ran in to a bigger fish willing to under cut them on price for similar hardware.
they also showed everyone how to moneyhat timed 3rd party exclusives. look at their big holiday lineup for 1995s ps1 launch, all 3rd party...battle arena toshinden wipeout destruction derby...all made it to sega saturn 6 months to a year later.
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Sony has stated time and again, that they never paid for outright exclusivity. Beleive it or not, some business deals can be made without the exchanging of funds to persuade opinion. Sony simply talked a better game. Whether they do now is another question, as MS's raising of this standard might have forced their hand. The fact they refused to do so was part of their downfall this gen, remember?
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Your original charge against the XBox 360 was against TIMED exclusives. This is your words:
Timed Exclusivity: A ridiculous trade off from real exclusivity if you ask me. I always felt full exclusive games encouraged the best kind of competition. Mario's success would spur Crash, GT would ignite PGR/Forza, etc, etc. The fact that there are less exclusives these days means there is less reason to buy any particular console(which is what MS wanted) but it also means developers don't have to try nearly as hard to court a fanbase.....and most often, Multiplats feel like a poor man's exclusive Version.
If you want to speak about the past and whatnot, and say before the PS3 Sony didn't do this, that is fine. But if you dare go down the PS3 path and say Sony hasn't done this, I suggest you google: "Ghostbusters PS3 Moneyhat". You will find stuff on it that would refute you. Also, the PS3 has gotten a number of exclusive content on their own. If you want to think that is out of the goodness of the company's hearts, because they worship the ground Sony walks on, you seriously need to look yo how business works.
