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Prodigy_BE on 02 April 2008
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Legend11 said:
viewsonic9 said:
Darc Requiem said:

So you hated when Sony bought exclusives on PS1 and PS2 as well right? I am sure Haze's exclusivity was just a coincedence as well. PS fanboys are always complaining about MS buying exclusives when Sony set the predecent for it two generations ago. Not only that when Sony does it for the PS3, the same people that bitch about MS's "bribery" don't have a damn thing to say.

 


Sony don't pay for exclusives any more. If you can supply evidence that Haze is a bought exclusive then do so or STFU.

Please supply me any evidence at all of any PS3 game that Sony have paid for exclusivity on.


Lets be real, do you honestly think that the business suits at Free Radical Design just decided it was a good idea to drop development of the game on the PC and 360, a system known for it's FPS sales and ease of development, to keep it on the PS3? Also remember that at the time Free Radical Design announced it as exclusive the PS3 was getting hammered in sales by the 360, especially in North America which is the biggest market for the genre.


 It's pretty simple.

True, Sony doesn't give developers or publishers hard cash for exclusives.  Their deal is the folowing: for every dollar a publisher spends on a PS3 exlusive (or timed exclusive), Sony ads a dollar of their money. So by making Haze a timed exclusive, Ubisoft doubled their promotional budget. Worldwide. That's a LOT of money.

 MS just pay hard cash for exclusives. Like the 50 mil for GTA4 DLC.

 

I too think that steinberg's an ass. But frankly, I finished San Andreas after more than a year, at a time I had nothing else to play. And I never Finished the PSP versions. So if GTA4 is as big as they promise its going to be, extra side missions are not a big factor in deciding which platform I'm gettin it on. Maybe the DLC is just side missions and they're not that good. Maybe MS wil overcharge, to recoup their 50 million loss. Maybe I'll be playing Little Big Planet by then, and getting a gazillion pieces of DLC for free with that game. Or Resistance 2, with 31 of my clan members.

GTA always shifted way more copy's on PlayStation than on Xbox. So I think it's release will boost PS3 sales more than it does Xbox 360 sales.