Phil Spencer criticizes buying exclusive content/DLC

[TheGreatOther]

Jazz2K said:

TheGreatOther said:

Yes exclsuivity deals existed before last gen, but last gen was when they really became a huge part of games and MS lead the charge for that.

It's easy to pretend you're for the gamers when you have no choice since your higher ups won't give you the money to buy these deals, but we already seen where you really stand when you had the power to buy them.

You can see the same thing happening with MS pushing for cross platform play this gen since they have  the smallest online communities, while last gen they wanted nothing to do with it because they had the advantage when it came to online community numbers.

 

Again, not arguing against the fact that it would be better if these companies stopped wasting cash on keeping games off other consoles and instead used it to fund more games, or cross platform play would be great. But unless the company that's in control says it it means nothing. MS is only advocating for these things now because they would benefit them since they can't afford to pay for these deals, If next gen they are in the lead and still hold this view then we can praise them as of now they're just salty.

So if someone points to a bad practice we should blame them even if they are right? If Sony said that would you encourage MS fans to blame Sony because they are also guilty of it? What I see is that there are bad practices made by companies and people fight with each other instead of trying to help fix this.

BTW, last gen was way better in case of exclusivity than past gens. Both Nintendo and Sony got better positions because of these practices. Nintendo's way of doing was rather draconian and Sony did made a lot of exclusive deals to ensure other consoles git no where near their position. Last gen was almost the end of such era. This gen is 1000x better, exclusivity is less and less prevalent than it was.

Yes if Sony said the same thing while paying for such deals then they should be called on it too.

And no previous generations weren't littered with such deals. Most PS1 games were excluive because devs couldn't fit their games on cartriges and they didn't want to pay outrageous licensing fees to Nintendo for those cartriges. It was simply cheaper to make games for PS1.

And PS2 had such a huge installbase and the architecure was so different from the competitors that devs had to choose which console they were gonna make a game for and PS2 was th logical choice over the others.

Similar to how most japanese games this gen are PS4 exclusives by default and not because Sony pays those devs to keep the games off XB1, the devs just don't think it's worth their resources to make a port for XB1.