riecsou on 17 April 2015
| Ka-pi96 said: Except publishers didn't make those deals with Microsoft because they thought Microsoft would win. They made them because Microsoft were able to pay for them, simple as that. Those deals will continue as well (see Rise of the Tomb Raider). |
Of course MS pay them for the deals, and seeing how this gen has turned out so far, they probably feel like MS got those deals cheap. Now if MS wants to try to continue to have those same kind of deals, those publishers can now ask for a lot more money to compensate the money they would not be getting releasing for the PS4.
Even EA chief financial said: "I think you should assume that we made that decision when it was back a few years ago when we decided to go exclusive,"
"We had some forecast at that time from where we thought both Xbox and PlayStation would be and that's what we based our decision on. I think we're still feeling very comfortable with that,"
