SkyerIst_Huiesos said:
MS gives money to a 3rd party to stop releasing the game on other platforms. I call this stealing, they can fund their game, not buy it and take it from other consumers |
Actually MS has never gave money to a 3rd party to stop releasing a game on another platform. They either funded the project totally so got it exclusive or they funded partial to get a time exclusive. Funding a project completly means its 2nd party. Most times if MS if funding it completly, the 3rd party came to MS and asked to fund development. Partial funding it is time exclusive. On the time exclusive part it still comes to other platforms like Tomb Raider. While it may not make you happy if you are on the other console it does make the developer happy because they get upfront money on the development. Budget for the project becomes bigger and they can concentrate on one platform without worry as much about the amount of sales. It fund future projects and probably also fund the development on those other platforms. In a high risk market like AAA games it business and help developers pay their builds.
