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jlmurph2 on 22 April 2014
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Scisca said:
Goatseye said:

When was the last Socom out?

Bulletstorm was just one title back in 2011.

Painkiller? 2 games in 10 years.

You must be kidding. Even Halo comes out in 2-3 years iteration.

I shouldn't even replied to you just because of the bolded part.

Sure Titanfall will make MS splash millions because you know, it's online only and to play you have to acquire Live. Does that mean more money to MS?


2011 is 3 years ago - just like you wrote in your post. The last SOCOM was released in that time period as well. I think there were 3 Painkillers? Though I might be wrong here.

The bolded is true, whether it breaks down your world or not.

It will cost MS like hell. Why? They had to pay for exclusivity. Then, they were giving it out for free and even coupled that with a $50 discount on XO. There was also a bundle with TF and a year of Live. Moreover, I'm sure the majority of people who jumped to the XO are X360 owners and have Live either way. All this effort and PS4 still won March in USA...


How much do you really think it cost? MS saved Titanfall while Sony wanted to put it on Vita. I'm sure a big part of the deal was putting them on XBL Compute servers so EA didn't have to deal with another Sims + BF4 sh*tstorm. Also its a game without single-player which means they had to work with the minimal resources given to them. 

The reason MS was able to bundle Titanfall at a price cut is because of Xbox as a whole's Tie-Ratio. They know that people will buy more games for their Xbox One and Xbox Live Gold while they have an Xbox One. Xbox Live Gold is THE most profitable asset of the Xbox division so when MS made XB1 they had to make sure it depended on XBLG to be fully enjoyable, like the 360.