landguy1 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
landguy1 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Moneyhatting is just capitalism at its best. Its exclusivity marketing, which tips the scales. It takes away 100% parity from one company and hands it to another for essentially the same version of the game. It also takes away the ability of one brands gamers to enjoy a potential multiplat just as well as it was once intended on all available consoles. |
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.
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As a business your job is to increase your profits above you previous year.The money the largest publishers make from MS and Sony for exclusive content tips the scales and gives them an edge. Remember Microsoft and Sony have been profiting more off of third party than Nintendo, so they will continue to maintain that relationship with third parties. Billions in third party revenue. There is a difference between an actual exclusive being made for a console and published vs a moneyhatted third party title. Gears of War is a moneyhatted third party title which was supposed to be multiplat, GTA 3-San Andreas was moneyhatted for 50 million last gen to be kept away from Microsoft for a specific period of time by Sony. Microsoft dont really have to worry about Nintendo with third party so they dont fear them, they only fear one another. Microsoft knows Europe will buy more PS4's because Sony is more popular over there (naturally) so they paid for a shit ton of DLC and will now bundle all preorder bundles with FIFA 14 in the Xbox One.
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We know that M$ generally does a LOT more than anyone. But, their business culture has them outsourcing game development in all of their divisions. So, they believe that they are just waiting to get the right titles/developers that are willing to accept the $$$ to give them their games. Even though we think we know when they "bought" certain titles, it might have happened semi early in the process before a lot of the multi plat work has been done. But, because the developer had originally intended to make it multiplat, people tend to complain about what might have been.
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Well if MS could've published a game they would've done it (and they have). If they moneyhatted a game they just paid for some form of exclusivity to keep it away from Sony like Titan Fall, Dead Rising, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Gears....and the list goes on and on.
