How much do you reckon Sony paid for MGS4 exclusivity?

[starcraft]

Pristine20 said:

starcraft said:

 

I'm sorry, but thats ridiculous.

1. Why not postpone it for all three versions?

2. I think this is the same as your first point, so see that answer again.

3. Noone in their right mind would believe "Exclusivity hype" would outweigh the combined shooter sales of PC and 360. In any event, there was no real shooter competition on either of those platforms at the time of release.

 

There is nothing wrong with moneyhatting games, it gets games for your consumers. But to think Sony doesn't do it is foley.

 

The game was slated for release when Halo 3 was still in full throttle and COD4 just received a massive embrace...this is tough competition. The developers knew the game sucked. It sucks so bad that its impossible for them not to realize this. However since there were basically no games to compete with on PS3, it makes sense to make it exclusive to save face because some PS3 owners would buy it because they have nothing else to play while it will sell horrendously relative to other FPS games on 360. However, since it wasn't released on 360 we can't see that

if you don't think competition matters, why do you think MGS2 outsold MGS3 (hint:it is not because 2 was better, some people even hated mgs2 because of Raiden). It is because there weren't that many games worth playing on ps2 at the time of mgs2's release. There are many games I skipped on ps2 due to lack of time that I'm searching for now. I bought COD4 even though I never played an FPS last gen because it was the only good release on PS3 at its time. I never bought any previous mgs games even though I watched my cousins play and followed the story. however I'll be buying mgs4 because I don't really have any other new ps3 games to play---no competition for mgs4.

Even though you called my post ridiculous, I tried my best to explain. Hope this makes some sense

I understand your reasoning, I just think that the benefits of having the game on three systems greatly outweighs any artificial increases from a perception of exclusivity.  I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.