Microsoft gives market share against PlayStation

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Imaginedvl said:

DonFerrari said:

Not always. A lot of exclusives on Playstation didn't need any moneyhat, they were simple fruit of relationship and past success like Yakuza and Persona. It needed MS expending money to receive the content but there was 0 barriers from Sony on they getting the content after MS gone there and paid to have what Sony was getting for free.

Money, is the only reason why those exclusivity deals happen. Nothing else. Maybe sometimes you get something more tangible assets/resources (cloud infrastracuture/compute time out of it, stuff like that) but at the end; on paper it goes down to a simple thing: numbers.

We are talking about public companies here... They care about ONE thing (and should be caring about that only): revenues, profits and how much money the shareholders will make. Not about donuts... 

If the other one comes with more money; those donuts will mean nothing...

No need to argue if you really want to believe otherwise anyway :)

Depends on the negotiation and deals made, if Xbox offers for Final Fantasy XVI lets just say SE 30 million dollars for a 1 year exclusive deal where the game needs to be on gamepass, and Sony offers less but the game will be go full price in retail Sony is offering less money but the better opportunity for SE to make a good return on investment.  If both companies offer the same price with no stipulations Sony is more than likely to get the contract/game with the better relationship.