crissindahouse said:
Paying money to take content away from another platform is always shit since no gamer has anything from that. Nobody does get it earlier as if the console manufacturer wouldn't pay for it. Some only get it later... But pretty funny how Sony seems to pay for more games as Microsoft right now (timed exclusive Indie games, Timed DLC and so on...) even if so many always hated Microsoft for exactly this attitude. Would be only fair if all these people on VGC would start to say the same bad stuff about Sony now. |
i doubt sony put a dime into indies (that aren't ps+ titles). jonathan blow said very openly that no money exchanged hands,.. that timed exclusivity to a platform was unavoidable because of his team's small size couldn't support all platforms with launch parity. the ps4 was the platform he choose to launch first for a lot of reasons including ease of development and sony's great working relationship with indies.
wrt destiny,.. that was obviously paid but MS has the same thing in CoD and evolve and fifa and dead rising 3 and titanfall and sunset overdrive. if one side is going to be called-out there typically has to a disparity in behavior.
OT - i'd have to got back to the E3 conference footage but i think the statment on stage was something like "destiny will always have more content on playstation". i wouldn't be surprised if the content that launches this year on playstation comes to xbox the same day a fresh batch of content comes to playstation. in that way, a year of exclusivity could make sense.
