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

[Entroper]

ckmlb said:

Steve 3.2 said:

Here's a great article on what Sony has lost to date:

Sony's Lost Exclusives: A Timeline - http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/07/sonys-lost-excl.html

Indeed a good article. Especially shocking is how they didn't say yes to Assassin's Creed and GTA IV...

It's not really that simple.  It's not like Take Two came to them and said "hey, we'd like to do GTA IV as a timed exclusive again," and Sony said "nah, that's OK."  The offers from T2 and Ubisoft probably came with some monetary requirements -- and in case anyone hasn't noticed, Sony's gaming division is losing an awful lot of money lately.

The original article linked by Wired goes into a lot more detail.