Even publishers got this gen wrong...

[Eddie_Raja]

aLkaLiNE said:

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).

 

Not to the same extent we've been seeing last gen and the beginning of this. I will have to disagree with you. Moneyhatting is most feasible when you either have total domination or a close sell through ratio with the competition.

 

With the perpetual rise of development costs and ease of porting between the two, the amount of money MS will have to pay to keep anything away from Sony will only increase as Sony's lead in sales does as well. I'm sure the two correlate;

 

On top of that, this whole notion that MS is willing to take loss after loss for little gain is ridiculous. 

^This is my favorite logic flaw of all time!  I don't know why everyone seems to think MS (Or Nintendo for that matter) would be willing to just burn piles of money to stay in a losing fight.  These companies are businesses made to make money, not find fanboy ways of burning it!

If Xbox continues to fail, they will quit.  And if a Nintendo console fails, they will drop it and start over as soon as possible.