Is the Playstation Partnership the best way to launch new IPs/relaunch old ones?

[OneKartVita]

foodfather said:

OneKartVita said:
You should praise Sony for this. Just look at rocket league. They nab that up but still let it release at launch on PC.

But they have the genius idea of giving it free on ps plus and the game goes mega viral. Even after the first month sales have been huge.

On the other hand Microsoft get tomb raider. It doesn't even come to PC. They give it one exclusive retailer bundle that's too high a price and have it released at the worst possible time.

There's a reason these deals do better on Playstation m Sony are passionate about marketing them.

 

I think this is a bad example. Yes, everbody knows the TR deal was stupid, but it doesn't neccessarily mean Sony are more or MS are less ''passionate''. MS have propelled many new IP's and existing brands since the 360 days and I believe they did their best with titles like Sunset Overdrive. MS for some reason have simply been picking the wrong partnerships, which isn't necessarily their fault. As I mentioned earlier, peublishers will want their games marketed for PS4 because for some reason, they hype is working, especially in EU. 

 

That proves my point.  first half of the 360 gen Microsoft were so unbelievably passionate and they propelled so many 3Rd party timed exclusives to the big-time.  They were doing it right.  

 

This gen so far Sony is basically the Microsoft I just mentioned above.