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plip.plop on 18 June 2015
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enlightenedmaster said:
plip.plop said:

Sorry no, Rockstar has no allegiance to either company. The only thing they care about is the bottom line.
In your best case scenario for Sony where Rockstar is only able to muster sales of 10 - 15 million copies on other consoles, do you really think they would leave that kind of money on the table?
$60 x 10,000,000 = $600,000,000
$60 x 15,000,000 = $900,000,000
No company in their right is leaving more than half a billion in sales (on the low end )to a possible billion (on the high end) out in the wild.

The realistic question would be, does Sony have the money to make it a console exclusive?

ROCKSTAR doesn't have allegiance to either company but they have big relationship to SONY and PS2 has a major part in ROCKSTAR's success.

GTA would be a Timed exclusive not a full exlcusive as it has always been,10-15million sales would easily be couped up a year later launch on XBONE and PC.

 

the way its going they would need to pay as low as $100 million or as high as $200-300million OR they would just put $200million for marketing GTA6 which they would as it is do even if it was multiplatform so its actually not charging them atall.SONY spent $100million for GTA5 marketing on its own not even a deal with ROCKSTAR and MICROSOFT spent $100million for GTA4 marketing.

thats chunk change for what it would do not just for PLAYSTAION as a brand but also SONY

 

and thats if they don't already have an exlcusive deal with ROCKSTAR

Rockstar would only sell either one DLC, timed exclusive? Hell no When you make a game that sells on any system it is put on, You hold all the cards. 

Don't believe me? Look at Call of Duty. The amount of money needed to hold a game off another console (temporarily) that has an user base that also buys the hell out of that game would be too high for either company.

Besides why waste that money locking up timed exclusivity, when you can fund new IP's, or does that scenario only apply to Sony's competitors..