| landguy1 said: If you are a developer/Publisher and M$ or Sony offers to pay you a certain amount of $$$ to go console exclusive to them, why do you take the deal? I think it is because you want to be able to make more games and that $$$ guarantees that your game is profitable or the risk is drastically reduced. So, in essence, it allows for more games to hit the market. I do agree that it does take the game away from some people who don't buy multiple systems, but EVERY game that is console exclusive does that. What real difference does it make when in the development process that happens? I usually get all of the consoles, so i am normally not as affected by it that way. |
When we're talking about moneyhatting, we're usually talking about major publishers. Activision and EA don't need money from Microsoft to keep going, for example. In those instances, it's just pure greed. The publisher gains, the platform holder gains, gamers lose. It's the act of taking away.
Sony, as far as I know, doesn't pay for exclusives. The developer for The Witness, for example, said that he hadn't been paid a cent to be exclusive. What they typically do instead is to request additional content for the Playstation version? Is this just as bad? Perhaps, but maybe not--if that content wasn't going to be there in the first place, then it's taking nothing away from gamers who play on other brands.
