Xbox and EA Deal - Worth it? Whats next?

[kitler53]

ethomaz said:

kitler53 said:
without knowing how much money was exchanged it's really hard to decide if it was worth it to one or the other side (or both). i guess the real test is to see how much titanfall and pvzGW sells and how many xbox's it pushes. if they flop both sides will probably regret these deals.

it certainly was a lot of special treatment though..

The deals was made before the consoles launches when EA guessed Xbone will outsell PS4... after saw the thuth comming out I guess they won't make these kind of deals anymore.

eh, not necessarily true.   if MS is willing to pay enough EA will take the money.  From a business perspective "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".  businesses dont' like risk and if MS is willing to pay for the entire development cost (just as an example) that project is then no risk to EA and probably going to get green lit.   it just depends on how much money MS is willing to spend.  ...but the price goes up the more ps4 outsells xbox as MS has to cover the opportunity costs as well.