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

[jman8]

Legend11 said:

jman8 said:

Personally, if i were running a gaming company, I'd rather spend the money on smaller devs with fresh ideas, especially considering that every generation there seems to be one or two new IPs that seem to blow up. Last gen those two IPs were GTA and Halo. When MS bought Bungie they definitely didn't spend so much on so little like they did with the GTA extra content.

It's the big games and well known IPs that sell the most games though. Why fund smaller devs when the chances of them creating IPs that sell in the millions (which is what would be required to move systems) is slim?

 Because, like I said, often smaller teams can create the biggest franchises in the long term. Look at Halo. Look at GTAIII. Who the hell knew about Bungie and Rockstar North back in the day. Now those two teams are the biggest in the game industry. I guess I'm looking at a more long term strategy where minimal investments can lead to big things rather than making massive investments for minimal gains (GTA DL content).