Sony's Jim Ryan interview: 'We don't need to buy exclusivity'

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VanceIX said:

ClassicGamingWizzz said:

VanceIX said:

Financial support.

That is all.

And good someone did that, cause these guys had their studio floded( i think this is the word xD ) and a lot of their work was lost, sony might helped them a bit with money, some people say sony its trying to buy their studio but they dont want.

I don't deny that it was a good thing, I'm happy that Sony stepped in to help them make the game, it's easily my most-hyped game for next year.

But financial support goes hand-in-hand with moneyhatting. You could make the case that "financial support" was what Microsoft gave to Square Enix with Tomb Raider, by helping them with the development, optimization, and advertising of the game. 

If, and a big if (there's no way to truly prove it) Sony demanded that the PS4 version of No Man's Sky be a timed exclusive in exchange for said financial support, it would be an example of moneyhatting.

Wait a minute, if it was simply financial support, how did they Sony beat Microsoft? Sure you can always speculate moneyhatting, but honestly its more of a stretch in this case. Not to mention, Sony has no publishing restrictions for games they do not publish but have on their platform.

There is no reason for No Man's Sky to be first on PS4 simply by money alone, or even money at all. If Hello games is delaying the other releases of No Man's Sky, it cannot because they are contractually obligated by money.

Sony doesn't buy timed exclusivity of a game to keep it off another platform, they just buy timed exclusive dlc, or exclusive content of a game because they have to compete with MS, else people will say shit like "Oh Sony isn't doing anything", like with the updates, "MS is buying all this exclusive content and Sony is just sitting on 10 million consoles" or whatever. Its silly, but this is the state of affairs right now.