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-CraZed- on 01 August 2015
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Goatseye said:
-CraZed- said:
 

So what was your problem with his statement then? He is correct that they cannot pay for third party exclusivity going forward because it is cost prohibitive and developers are more likely than not asking for larger sums of money to do so. It's that simple. Take my example of Batman AK. The PS4 version is reportedly selling roughly three times the number of copies of the XB1 version. Could WB afford to forgo those sales for an upfront payment from MS? And would it make good business sense for MS to pay enough to make it worth it? Doubtful. It's dollars and cents here. 

I'm talking AAA first party titles which pretty much consists of Halo/Forza and Gears of War. Plus, we are discussing current events and right now MS's first party lineup is woefully incapacious. Granted, those are great franchises but they could use more and have the necessary resource to stand up/buy new studios to continue to create new ip. Look at MS 'best first party lineup ever;' Halo 5, GoW 4 and Forza 6.

Besides, when was the last time XBox Live arcade was actually  great? It'd be nice if MS got back to that as well but they seemed to lose that focus years ago. But not really germaine to the topic.

-MS 1st party is woefully incapacious but what about the competition's? Until Bloodborne, none of the AAA set the world on fire. Even the latter didn't sell enough to be considered a blockbuster.
-Xbox best line up ever is not what you convinently mentioned to fit you view. Let me remind you what within the next 18-20 months Xbox lineup will be approximately:

-Forza 6 and possibly Forza Horizon 3 in 2016

-Recore/Scalebound/Sea of Thieves/Quantum Break, I can tell you that none of those are Halo, Gears and Forza. All new IPs

-Halo 5, the most ambitious take on any modern FPS campaign

-Fable Legends

-ROTR

-Crackdown

How can you guys even downplay this?  

Scalebound is not a first party game nor is the developer. Recore is still a CGI trailer and again not first party. Crackdown is a ways off. ROTR is a timed exclusive and again not first party. . And yes they are all very interesting titles, but again not really relevant to the thread topic.

Look no one is downplaying the quality of titles here. People are getting off track in the discussion I think.

I'm simply addressing how MS must turn its focus from how it has been very reliant on third party exclusivity deals, which was pretty easy since they could afford to pay off developers to skip or delay the release on competing consoles on a regular basis because they were the leading platform. MS has fewer studios working on console exclusive IPs than their competition so they relied heavily on third and second party exlcusivity deals. Now they are looking to change that around because they aren't the leading console and it just isn't cost effective. I like the shift in focus by MS and hope that it devlops into more diversity in their first party line-up.