walsufnir said:
Snoopy said:
Sony isn't really in a position to spend a lot of money. The only reason why sf5 is exclusive is because Microsoft didn't want to fund their own version and rather work on their own ips. Tomb raider was bought simply for holiday sales and was to compete against uncharted. Honestly, Microsoft should see if they can purchase the ip since they want their own "Uncharted" and obviously square enix isn't that confident in the series or else they wouldn't take Microsoft's offer.
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They aren't? Well, this gen they spend a lot of money for some sort of exclusivity. Destiny, COD, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Star Wars Battlefront, Watch Dogs. SF5 of course, as well as Shenmue. Sony said themselves that they now rely on 3rd party developers more than ever and they do this exactly how you would expect it. They don't buy it off other systems but exclusive marketing rights do what they do and are also not cheap.
But yes, perhaps MS can buy TR, why not? At least in this case, MS has a *lot* of money to do whatever they want :)
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Buying marketing deals is a short term profit goal. Buying an exsisting ip is a long term goal that is way more expensive. Millions of dollars for marketing deal (which they usually make their money back) is no where near paying billions (gears of war ip and minecraft ip for example). Hell, what Microsoft paid for Minecraft is more than what Sony makes in a year (assuming it isn't a loss of course). And just in case nobody figured it out, the console industry is staying the same. The only new AAA big titles that sold and did very well was Titan Fall, Destiny and arguably Watch Dogs this gen. Microsoft must know that this industry can be easily bought because there is only a few AAA titles that are very successful like Fallout, Halo, COD,ect.... while there is no growth.
