Amazon US August monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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Nuvendil said:

binary solo said:

I don't see why MS can't still get marketing exclusivity rights, especially for games with high USA/UK appeal. They'll just need to pay more for those rights. What they will never get is a multi-plat to go exclusive like RoTR. No publisher in their right mind is going to diss the PS4 user base with an existing IP. MS will have to purchase exclusive new IP, but even then publishers will want to be able to put the IP onto PC as part of the cost of missing out on seeling to that PS4 user base.

Meanwhile, aside from FPS, Sony wouldn't have too much difficulty in getting console exclusivity for some existing IP if they really wanted to, or full exclusivity for new IP. I hope they don't do the former, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did that for one or two more existing IP in the future.  Would be kinda karmically funny if Sony snagged console exclusivity for the next Tomb Raider game. There's a danger Sony could do that if RoTR doesn't meet sales expectations on Xb one.  

Sure MS can just burn even more money on the Xbone to get those marketing deals but eventually it gets to the level of futility that the greater MS corporation will see no point.  And I think Sony stealing away CoD marketing exclusivity and the competitive scene (and creating a pseudo Madden bundle to boot) show that Sony is looking to push Xbox to that point. 

The anti-Xbox faction in MS was pretty much shut down during the 360 era since 360 was doing well and had good buzz around it, once RROD was sorted. But I think the anti-Xbox faction voices might start to get louder over the next few years if Xbox essentially fails in all significant markets other than USA and UK.