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mornelithe on 02 January 2016
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KManX89 said:
Nautilus said:
Microsoft could have already payed off the game with the moneys deal alone

Except they didn't. If they did, it would be a permanent exclusive, duh.

And it absolutely will hurt the franchise. If it flops on PS4, we can all safely say that MS and Squeenix killed the franchise with this arbitrary deal which made no sense on any conceivable level. 

LudicrousSpeed said:

This is a strange thing on this forum where when you compare the SFV and TR deal, both moneyhat deals done to games that would have existed anyway, people get like.. almost offended that you would dare compare the deals. It's amusing. But I wasn't comparing the behind the scenes stuff you're speculating/defending on. I am merely talking about a franchise where a previous entry sold very well on other platforms, releasing a sequel that rules some of them out. And yeah, these deals are different, because eventually TR will return to PS4. SFV is never coming to Xbox. On the scale of moneyhats that are bad for gamers, SFV is infinitely worse. But this is about business. MS paid Square for TR time, Sony is paying Capcom for SFV time. I can't imagine either deal will work out bad for the companies in the grand scheme of things.

Wrong, ROTTR was already well in development on PS4 until M$ paid Squeenix to keep it off their console for an entire year while Capcom has repeatedly said they did NOT have the funds for SFV and it wouldn't be made AT ALL without support from Sony:

https://www.facebook.com/lazygamer.net/posts/10151792604613962

And yet Sony, despite developing the game and being the reason for it existing are STILL giving it to PC on launch day AND letting it cross-play to boot. It's a moot comparison because one's a game that would've been released day one on the console which more than doubled the XB1's sales on the last game until M$ money-hatted it while the other is a game that wouldn't exist at all from the dev's own mouth and sells better on the console it's getting released on, anyway. 

And if you recall from one of the press events (can't remember if it was E3, or some such), but they specifically said that this allowed them to centralize the community.  I know Microsoft can probably do just fine without it, but I'd personally love to see them allow more x-play w/ other platforms.