SCEA President: "We don't buy exclusivity."

[Legend11]

jman8 said:

Legend11 said:

Xzbeat said:
In a not-very-disguised jab at Microsoft, SCEA President Jack Tretton told PSM in the latest issue:

"We have a very different approach to exclusives than some of our competitors. We don't buy exclusivity. We don't fund development. We don't, for lack of a better term, bribe somebody to only do a game on our platform. We earn it..."

He went on to say...

"Microsoft is too dependent on the third-party community, and Nintendo is too depended on first-party. We like to feel that we got a pretty good mix."

Someone forgot to tell Jack that Sony is funding development of L.A. Noire.

If Sony doesn't plan on buying any exclusives or funding any new development for third parties then the PS3 is in for a lot of trouble.

 I'm not trying to be an ass, but I had no idea Sony was funding LA Noire ala MS funding GTA DL content. When did this news break? 

I'm not 100% sure so I shouldn't have posted it (I thought I was correct until I went back to get proof for you)...

I read an interview with Team Bondi here:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=54626

And in it there was this that kinda stood out to me:

"Kristan Reed: Do you believe you'll be as ambitious this time around? If so, in what way?

Brendan McNamara: I'd say the new game is even more ambitious as it's going to ask new questions from our audience in terms of gameplay, how the narrative plays out and also the concept of success and failure.

Kristan Reed: How are you funding the project? Has SCEA given you an advance or is this self-funded and totally independent?

Brendan McNamara: The project is wholly funded by Sony Computer Entertainment America. We have a long-term exclusive arrangement with SCEA."

Of course the problem is the interview takes place in 2004, but LA Noire wasn't announced to the public until 2005...