Snoopy said:
walsufnir said:
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....
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What new AAA (I assume third party) games this gen that were good (high meta) did badly? Because I can pretty much assure that any that did badly scored low and we're bad/mediocre games.
I can only think of Evolve and even then I don't know the sales of it. Shadow of mordor did great watch dogs broke records.
