Arkaign on 29 June 2014
I just provided you the numbers.
One can expect major AAA hits to sell in the range of 10M copies during the 2015-2016 timeframe. $27 of a $60 release goes to the publisher. Bingo : exclusivity for a title to preclude selling 10M copies must compensate the publisher for lost sales.
It's common sense so absolutely plain and unambiguous that it borders on trolling to deny it. Even if you bend the numbers downwards considerably (let's even call it HALF, or 5M lost sales x $27/ea), you're still talking $135,000,000 for that contract.
I'm sorry to tell you, but it's not going to happen (TF2 XB1 exclusive). The financials just don't make sense. They are so far from making sense that it's laughable.
