aLkaLiNE said:
Neodegenerate said:
Whole lot of crazy going on in this thread...
On the one hand it is funny to see the head of the Xbox division, the division that famously started this paid DLC exclusivity deal thing last gen, talk about it as though it is this horrible thing. That said, we do know that MS has done a lot less exclusivity in this gen.
Now a lot of people in here are assuming it is a funding thing. What if it actually is a Phil thing? Guy could just be saying no to doing the exclusive DLCs/missions/packs at this point because he genuinely believes what he is saying. Could be funding, could be Phil, could be an outbidding thing. We aren't in the room, we don't know. What we do know is that coincidentally (or not?) the company doing the big 3rd party DLC exclusives has led in the US last gen and thusfar this gen. |
I'd say what was far more important for Microsoft last gen was launching a year earlier at a lower price. Not sure that exclusive DLC can win generations as you might be suggesting.
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I am not suggesting it can win gens, I am suggesting it can win a specific territory in that gen.
Xbox launching a year early doesn't give it a 20 million console lead or whatever it had in the US. I think having the exclusivity on big ticket FPS games like CoD did more for that than the early launch did.
