Spencer: We Have Just Signed Exclusives That Won’t Be Ready for 2-3 Years, No Point in Showing Them

[IamAwsome]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

IamAwsome said:

Games like Lost Odyssey, Recore, and Scalebound were "signed" as opposed to developed internally. Doesn't make them any less second party. And building up your own studios isn't a preqequisite for bulking up first party output. Sony didn't build several of its studios and Nintendo didn't build Monolith. They bought them.

1 game didn't profit, the other sucked and the last one did not finished development. You're giving more reasons why Microsoft should create dedicated studios to making high quality first party. Nintnedo bought monilith because monilith had a high pedigree for having some of the best RPGs during the ps2 era. They are first party and that's that. Nintnedo was smart.

Your point? Sometimes games don't do as well as you'd hope. You don't know if a game will flop until it does. My point is, MS could buy a studio like Platinum just as easily as creating one from scratch. First party is first party. Signed exclusives do well (LBP, Infamous, The Last Story, everything from Insomniac, etc.) and internally developed games do well too. One isn't necessarily better than the other. 

 

EDIT: I also find it funny that you're parading around Insomniac/Spider Man like Sony owns them lol.