S.T.A.G.E. on 15 January 2015
| Zanten said: Behold my glorious return! xP SO much busy been keeping me from the site. Anyway, on this subject, given Insomniac was specifically looking to hold onto the IP, they might not be open to having it become a de facto exclusive anyway. (Assuming other publishers have now begun to express interest in taking them on, and can't see why they wouldn't.) Now, of course, there's always the 'Make Them An Offer Too Good To Refuse' option, but Insomniac's preferences might make the wheelbarrow of money/incentives required to seal the deal significantly larger than the IP is actually worth, too large for Microsoft to consider 'worth it,' in terms of cost vs. reward. The level of cost that they're willing to endure to secure the IP might come down to how solid they consider their future lineup of exclusives to be; the more confident Microsoft is that they have a good quantity of quality content, the less they'll probably stretch themselves trying to lock down this one property. |
Exactly my point. This brings me back to the fact that MS had an exclusives drought after the third parties they were paying for games went multiplat last gen. Microsoft moreso than Sony relies on sequels to keep interest in their console.
