Did EA mishandle the Titanfall IP?

[BillyBong]

Machiavellian said:
The problem I see is that this is not something gamers should even worry about. The only thing as a gamer that I care about is that I get a chance to play games I consider worth my money not which platform a company decided to put it on. The reason I say this is because games are a very risky business. Developers and publishers can eat to much risk and find themselves up for sale. As a business, things like platform exclusives, content and other stuff that we see are ways to mitigate risk, Yes in hindsight I am sure EA would have put the game on the PS system. The thing is, we do not know when the original deal was setup. Titanfall at that time definitely wasn't in a state that EA probably could have risked going full hog.

The game was made for MS platform because MS stepped up and made the investment. Sony evidently had their investments in other areas which is fine and good. Who knows how long the deal was in the original deal between EA, MS and Respawn but it probably was for the best for MS and EA to go the exclusive for this game since its a MP only game. People will just move to Titanfall 2 when it comes out instead especially if Respawn can provide a much better game.

I understand  your points for the most part, but what will convince the PlayStation community to jump on the sequel after bring shunned from the first?  And I don't understand how a MP only game was best to go exclusive.  I highly doubt it had anything to do with the azure cloud infrastructure seeing how a sequel on the ps4 won't be utilizing azure.