Project Athia is a PS5 console exclusive (Will come out on PC day 1 but on other platforms in 24 months)

[Hynad]

sales2099 said:

Hynad said:

Exclusives drive consumers interest. I don’t see anything wrong in platform holders making deals and co-funding certain games to create incentives for people to jump into their ecosystems.

If every games release on everything, it creates redundancy and makes platforms lose their appeal and uniqueness.

I agree with the second paragraph. That’s the point of having competition. That said is there evidence of Sony co funding development? If so then that’s fine imo. If not, then 2 years is simply unheard of, especially for a 3rd party dev. It can create some bad trends on both sides. 

What people call moneyhatting isn’t just paying for keeping content away from other platforms. It’s an investment and deal to financially support development or marketing of a project in exchange for exclusivity, be it timed or not.