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Soundwave on 16 June 2015
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GTstation said:
Soundwave said:
I really do wonder if Nadella is forcing the XBox to division to have to go without.

Nadella was appointed CEO in Feb 2014, so it's quite possible even the Rise of Tomb Raider and certainly the Titanfall exclusivity deals were negotiating before Nadella took the reigns of the company.

Since then, MS hasn't scored any real type of third party exclusive.

And like I can understand Sony having more at their show, but to literally get shut out of Batman, Star Wars Battlefront, Assassin's Creed, Destiny, Hitman, and Call of Duty ... I mean all of them? It's mind boggling and I have to wonder if Phil Spencer really had a choice here or not.. Like how could you not even get one of those at your conference?


Dont blame nadela.

Early on One survived of deals signed based on the previous gen, Once PS4 started its sales bonanza things quickly changed.  

Nobody would pay what it takes now given the user base, im sure they all are willing since they know PS4 version will still sale more while hopeing MS pay out the booty for commercials and stuff thats mostly irrelevent to the game as a whole.  

If dev X tells you to cover their loses expected to be in the 2/3 million (ps4 version) in sales for timed exclusivity on the X1, would you ?


Still, they couldn't even get say one of Assassin's Creed, Hitman, Destiny, COD, Batman, to show up at their show instead of Sony's? No one's asking to fund the entire darn game, but the fact all these publishers opted to go Sony makes me go "hmmm". It's so damn unlike MS who even manage to wrestle things like GTA exclusivity away from Sony when the PS2 was destroying the XBox. I think MS' game division has had the hammer come down as far as being able to burn money like crazy. 

XBox was something Ballmer really pushed for and wanted too, lets not forget that. I don't think Nadella "hates" the XBox or anything, but I think it's quite likely that it's simply not as much of a priortiy to him. He has no emotional attachment or vested history with the division ... it's just another ... division to him, probably a fairly minor one at that.