Titanfall designer on Xbox exclusivity: "Microsoft is like the Apple of videogames"

[sales2099]

badgenome said:

sales2099 said:

Can we at least commend MS for paying to give their fans the 1st class treatment?

If we're talking about investing in dedicated servers and stuff like that? Sure.

But as far as paying third party publishers to cancel or delay their games for other systems? No. Fuck no. That doesn't improve the experience of the Xbox customer, it just shits up everyone else's experience.

sales2099 said:

It makes me feel like a 1st class gamer knowing the company who makes my console is spending millions just so I can play things first.

Well, that's pretty sad of you. The more accurate way to think of this isn't that they're paying so that you can play it first, but so that other people can play it last.

I don't see the problem in that as a Xbox gamer. The idea is to make their console attractive....making multiplats favour one console over another is a stroke of genious, making something for everyone feel like an exclusive, even for a period of time. Buzz and sales will favour them and the competition will get it when the gamers have moved on. 

I love it, and if other gamers have to wait, its their fault for not picking the right console. Gamers don't like to wait so I take much pleasure in this.

In the end, MS is spending millions to benefit their customer. More then what I can say for Sony with 3rd parties.