Titanfall an Xbox One, 360, PC Exclusive for Its 'Lifetime'

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gergroy said:

forevercloud3000 said:
There are two possible loop holes I see in this situation that are pretty likely to happen. PS4 is GOING to outsell XBOne this holiday, on into when Titanfall arrives supposedly. EA will want to cash in on the larger Userbase.

1. Sony seems to be ok with late Ports of games as long as they come with additional content. Ninja Gaiden was under contract as Xbox Exclusive from what I recall, but The Dev team got around that by creating "Sigma" which was really only an up port polished up real nice but treated like a new entry.

2. The game doesn't have a Single Player anyway, which is the real only differenciator between most shooters and their sequels. This game will of course get a sequel. Odds are if the game is successful EA will serialize it ala CoD and Battlefield. With only multiplayer to worry about this should be a fairly easy task. In the same amount of time they would have to port it to PS4(with extra content per mandated by Sony for late Ports) they might as well put forth the effort into 2. So basically like most delayed releases from Xbox360 to PS3, XBO will act as a Beta testing frenzy and when it arrives for PS4 they will have ironed most of the big bugs out.

Regardless, this game doesn't really interest me in the slightest :/

meh, since it is multiplayer only, I'm guessing EA will be happy taking the money from microsoft for exclusivity and then just make the sequel multiplatform.  Since there isn't a single player portion for people to miss, I don't think there will be much demand on other platforms for the first one once the sequel hits.  I also doubt the exclusivity agreement would expire before a sequel hits.  

Also, by the time titanfall comes out, there wont be a huge difference in install bases by then.  Most analysts are predicting them to be about even with a slight edge for one or the other.  My guess is neither will fill demand until well into next year, so initially it will be about whoever can supply the most.  

IDK man, slight is not how I would describe it. Most of the Industry Analysts I have seen are going with  Pre Order Sales Data, Trending searches, etc. And they all point ot PS4 selling at least double XBO numbers. When they have garnered a couple millions under their belt by December's end it will become obvious to the broad public which one to jump to because like the lemmings the common consumers are they will go with whats most popular. Not saying XBO numbers will be bad by any standard, just not nearly as good as PS4's. Not to mention Sony can simply sell to far more countries than MS whose strongest features will not be ready in many for a while. Japan launch early 2014 I believe and at that point PS4 will have a market that MS obviously cannot touch.  US is XBO's only fortress of solitude and its not looking like they will have that same lead.