windbane on 16 May 2008
| rocketpig said: ^Yeah, I just saw Bryan's posts. Sony and MS have very different strategies on how to deal with exclusives... MS buys publishing rights, Sony does most of it in-house. There are pluses and minuses to each method and they both work for different reasons. |
Yeah, for sure. And if Ninja Gaiden 2 never goes to PS3, meaning they wasted their time developing Ninja Gaiden Sigma, then obviously the publishing deal was about exclusivity. Still, if you are going to handpick games from third parties, it's not a fair comparison if Sony just doesn't use the same strategy. A game like MGS4 might as well be considered published by Sony since it's being bundled with the console. But hey, he wins on technicality...although he only specifies the genres that M$ had that Sony did not, which is also a little unfair considering there is no match for several of Sony's games. Oh well.
