I get the opinion that anyone who planned to buy this game for the PS3/4 can't do that now. But, how do you know that you could buy it before?
SE announced a sequel long ago. They also announced that the sales of the first didn't meet expectations. Based on the information that Phil gave out in this interview, it seems clear the SE was looking for a partner to mitigate the costs of the development of this game. They offered it to probably everyone, and M$ took the deal. If Sony took the deal, then the game would not have been made for the XB1/360. The game is over a year from releasing now, and this deal could have been done a few months ago. How do we know that the core of the game was all that was complete and the optimization for any particular system was yet to be done?
SE obviously needed some type of deal for the sequel to be made and they got it. Will it ever release on the PS4/PS3? maybe some day. The cost to take a fully developed game designed on the x86 platform for this now current generation can't be all that high if they want to release it on the PS4 at some point. My guess is at least a year of exclusivety at the most.
My point is that the Sony gamers were not harmed as far as we know. They may have even been helped by M$.
It is near the end of the end....
