| bonzobanana said: Titanfall has definitely had an impact and a great start to the first title in the series. It certainly has the basis for becoming even bigger. The reality is it would have likely been a better game on ps4 and sold more. I think it will be more difficult for Xbox one to get exclusives in future excluding Microsoft's own studios that is of course. It's possible the next Titanfall may not even be on xbox one. The developer seems pissed that Titanfall changed from being a timed exclusive to a permanent exclusive and has likely meant a loss of revenue for the developer. EA likely pocketed the fee from Microsoft for exclusivity. Also many technical issues trying to get the game running well and has still resulted in a low resolution in the released game on xbox one. So if the Xbox one market share declines compared to ps4 even more I could see Titanfall 2 not appearing on xbox one. Also very strange about the lack of info, images and video of the 360 version right up to launch time. It's still possible the 360 version could be surprisingly close to xbox one performance. http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/30/titanfall-will-not-come-to-ps4-admits-unhappy-respawn-4166444/ |
I really don't understand why people keep giving Respawn a free pass on the whole exclusive deal. They shit on EA for it and/or act as if Respawn literally had no idea. Like they showed up for work one day and the part of the staff working on this supposed PS4 version were told to go home or something. Or that after being crapped on by bad contracts with Activision, that all these guys would just be ok with EA essentially doing the exact same thing to them. And then, after EA did that to them, they go ahead and allow EA to publish the sequel.
Also, EA can't just "pocket" whatever MS gave them. The developers would be owed money and revenue and bonuses all tied to sales. If EA denies that without compensation then they'd be standing in line behind Activision to be sued by them. Also, I am sure EA sees they have a huge potential franchise on their hands, something that unlike Battlefield, could actually kill Call of Duty. They will want to treat these guys right.
As for the sequel skipping out on the Xbone, yeah. And it will also skip the PS4 and launch on SEGA's next console which will come with 4 of those $3,000 Titan cards revealed yesterday. And it will stream games right into your brain and run on a single AAA battery for 2000 hours. And it cures cancer and feeds babies creamy, nutricious breast milk.
