Sony doesn't need to buy them out, they're confident that having the more powerful console that will have a significant sales advantage/larger install base, many 3rd party devs will be happy to develop exclusives for them, and certainly multiplatforms. MS can't buy out all the 3rd parties. PS4's GPGPU compute also indicates the direction of PC gaming, so optimizing for that feature of PS4 will be applicable to future PC games as well, even if the level of optimization isn't quite the same. Developing for PS4 can leverage that PC market carry over as well. If relations between Sony and these devs is good, and the conditions they can offer are materially attractive, Sony just doesn't need to worry about anything. Will some(not necessarily RaD) also develop multiplatforms, or maybe even do an exclusive? Sure. But on the whole Sony has no reason to fear that 3rd parties in general will not reliably support them, to the contrary, they seem set to do great in that department, what with offering the more powerful console and a signifigant advantage in marketshare vs. XBone.
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