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Sarkar on 28 September 2019
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Azzanation said:
Sarkar said:

The reason MS hasn’t done it is because publishers don’t want to lock their content to a platform that has a tiny amount of players compared to the competition. If Sony doesn’t make these deals they’d just go to MS and the content would be locked to a console no one plays. 

Huh? It has nothing to do with the userbase, its all about the money.

There is a giant difference between Epic Games Store and Steam yet Epic make these type of deals all the time.

Of course there's money involved. That doesn't diminish the fact that a publisher would much rather have the deal with Playstation than Xbox, that's why as we've seen time and again, Sony get's the marketing deals for the biggest, most hyped games, and MS has been making do with the leftovers. It was the opposite last generation where Xbox got their pick and Sony had to make do with the leftovers. There's also the facet that the cost for MS to get exclusivity is much higher than it is for Sony due to their installbase difference and money for Xbox division is tight. 

Anyone who thinks MS is not doing these deals out of some sense of morality needs to get a reality check. This is the company responsible for the disturbing state of the gaming industry today.