Nuvendil said:
I wouldn't say *everything* else is great. Their wester third party relationships are strong, their Japanese third party relationships are barely present outside the handful of obvious ones. Also, the 360 gained it's massive appeal because of MS's efforts to diversify and shore up its exclusive offerings early on. It began to decline after MS stopped doing that. And the smoke screen worked pretty well. They kept promising PD and then just did so less frequently until everything quieted down and then released this so they can move on. Most people won't even realize what happened until a while later. Your forum goers will but that's a small group. They did this as a measure to stop the bleeding though, the Xbox brand's perceived value has been in decline for a while due to MS's own tactics and mistakes, they couldn't afford to publicly cancel ANOTHER game after just canceling Scalebound. It's not that PD is a big seller, it's the symbolic loss that's concerning. |
Well....in a generation where Sony is winning, have third party japanese companies ever really had a need to run to an outsider unless they were desperate? Microsofts smokescreen has worked ...but again only with people who are impressed by secondary things rather than primary things to a console. Its why fanboys have been gloating about the scorpio for five months straight with few great exclusives to show for their fanfare.
