Machiavellian said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Scoobes said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Scoobes said:
I think the OP needs to define "moneyhatting".
What Sony has done with Indies is to reduce costs and obstacles to development (e.g. free dev kits). That's not moneyhatting.
What Nintendo have done with Bayonetta 2, MS with Gears of War and Sony with Journey, is not moneyhatting. That's simply publishing and investing in a product.
Moneyhatting is specifically payment to remove a game from your rivals lineup and that's the sole benefit. No development, no partnership, just money changing hands to not invest on a rival platform. |
Gears of war by definition was moneyhatted. Ms paid epic to keep the game awau from sony. Bayonetta and journey were not moneyhatted. Sony co-developed journey and nintendo paid to publish bayonetta. If it wasnt for them that franchise would be dead.
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MS published the game(s) so I don't see how that is moneyhatting, they've at least made an investment in the marketing and distribution of the franchise. Epic would have needed a different publisher if they wanted to release it elsewhere. I don't see how the situation is any different toBayonetta 2 on WiiU.
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Microsoft turned the franchise from a timed exclusive third party to second party. Again the business started out as a moneyhat. Ms owns zero rights to it. It is equivalent to how they moneyhatted mass effect.
Bayonetta 2 is second party because otherwise the franchise wouldve stayed dead. Gears didnt need to be exclusive to ms ms subsidized the lost pc and ps3 sales.
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None of that makes any sense since MS published both Mass Effect and Gears. Are you just making this up or do you have any proof. There is nothing out there that I could find that Gears of War or Mass Effect was ever in development for the PS3. MS published the game so by that alone you know it wasn't going to be on any other platform then MS. If MS published the game and gave the developer money during development wouldn't that be what publishers do.
You would have a much better case with Titanfall than Gears of War andMass Effect. Even better the DLC from GTA games or the one month DLC exclusive period.
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I have played mass effect on the 360 and ps3. The publishing was primarily for exclusivity rights. They kept paying bioware and aiding in their development primarily to bolster their ranks. Ms is the reason so many pc xbox games made an exodus to consoles.
