Polygon: Microsoft's Current Dilemma With Games

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WoodenPints said:

Luke888 said:
I read this rumor today but didn't even realize FIFA would become an Xbox exclusive, this one move would singlehandedly flip the european market and put Sony at a HUGE disadvantage. still we're talking about hundreds of bilions of dollars here, it's hard to say wether MS would attempt making such a move

No, FIFA would always be multiplat as part of the licence agreement.

There is essentially zero chance that FIFA or Madden would become MS exclusives.  That would leave too much money on the table.  

In fact, if MS were to acquire EA, I would expect EA to continue to operate largely independently of MS. It wouldn't make any sense to buy the company, then purposely cut the sales by more than half.  We may see favorable treatment to MS, such as timed exclusives, marketing deals, and the like.  But, there's no way that they would stop making their big franchise's for PS or any other successful platform.