Phil Spencer: Sony buying third party games, all to do with money, not market share

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Torillian said:

LudicrousSpeed said:
But in another thread it was revealed that MS must pay trillions for exclusive content because they are trailing WW. Do I believe them, or Phillip Spencer?

Well like most things there's probably a happy medium in reality between the two extremes.  I find it extremely hard to belivee that the number of consoles that a game will miss releasing on when it goes exclusive does not factor into the cost unless every third party making this decision is an idiot.

Yeah No. If we factor in opportunity cost, labor and time management(things that aren't real money but could be directly contributing to money spent, saved or gained) a lot of developers would rather go PS4 especially those from Japan knowing a userbase of 13M of which aren't exactly the greatest supporter of non-shooter games) won't exactly set the charts on fire. They could be doing something else more worthwhile than trying to dig for fools' gold in an emptied cave. A logistical nightmare happened for most devs in Japan last gen trying to reach out westrfn audiences on Xbox 360 that  never existed in the first place. What's the point doing the same routine again? 

 

Edit wrong person to reply. lol