| JayWood2010 said: I highly doubt MSFT would be advertising it the way they are if it would have ended up a timed exclusive. TF is good for Xbox and MSFT is good for TF, that's why its called a partnership. EPIC talked about this as well. When it comes to partnerships there is perks involved for both parties. Specially when it is a new ip picking a good partner is important and as i said before, there is no other company in the gaming business that is going to match massive marketing campaigns the way MSFT does. It would be foolish to think only one party benifits from a partnership. They wouldnt have agreed to it if they didnt see the perks in it. |
I know what a partnership is Jay and I know what an EA partnership is like, looking at the unprecedented partnership they have with Nintendo.
Anyway, the partnership was agreed to before the generation had even begun. Before we had any indication of how well the Xbox One or PS4 would sell... And EA made the exclusive call based on sales. When theyre looking at things now and they see that not only did it not go as they predicted, but the competing console is breaking every record in the book, do you think that they will be happy that the game is staying Xbox exclusive because of Microsofts advertising of all things?
I dont think you could deny that the game would a) reach more people if it was on PlayStation and thus b) sell even more based on a (presumably) positive word of mouth. Think Call of Duty 4 and the word of mouth that came from it.
A deal done X Years ago would be totally different to a deal done today based on current sales alone, let alone projections for the next 12 Months. I think as things currently stand, Titanfall being exclusive to Xbox has benefits for Xbox and Xbox alone when you look away from the presumed truck of money that Microsoft sent. With Gears for example, as you mentioned Epic, you could see the clear benefits because Microsoft actually published those titles. The original Mass Effect for an EA game... It was published by Microsoft.
Actually, is Titanfall actually being advertised by Microsoft? I know its in the launch ad for a few seconds, but are we actually getting ads payed for and made by Microsoft when the game launches?
