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DMeisterJ on 19 April 2008
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madskillz said:
rasone77 said:
I still hear people calling this $50 million dollars a full payment when in all actuality its an advance meaning take 2 is paying back every penny. Why would they give MS full exclusivity for free???

PS: if some of you had read every post in the thread like you claim you would already know this. So I'll re-post the link so it's easier to find.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=700735

@ Shura - rolling on the floor laughing my butt off.

@ rasone - actually, R* offered GTA series exclusivity to MS for free back in the day - and they shunned it. R* took the free exclusivity to Sony and created a riot. MS couldn't lock down complete or even timed exclusivity, so they went to ... you guessed it - digital download. And they paid T2 for it - granted the episode makes over $50M. They just have to sell 1.25M copies of the DLC to make money. Maybe there is an escape clause that will put it on the PS3 - maybe not. But I can tell you, based on attach rates, R* will make that money and then some. Just watch and see. 


1.25 million... uhh... no?

You forget that there's all types of costs with putting stuff on XBLA.  It's not just pay 10 bucks (800 MS) and it's all profit.  So 1.25 million is probably fairly understated.  If MS get's half of it, then 2.5 million, but they could get much less than that.  Who knows?  But 1.25 is probably not the amount of DLC they need to sell, since we don't know how much money MS gets from every piece of that sold.

On-topic:

I still don't get this thread.  No one knows what the DLC is.  It's all speculation in this thread.  Maybe it's a city, maybe it's a new weapon, maybe it's some missions [probably] but who knows.  It may just wind up being like Mass Effects "Bring down the sky" DLC.  It doesn't have to be huge.