Will Sony Copy Microsoft and Make Playstation a 3rd Party Publisher?

[shavenferret]

EricHiggin said:

shavenferret said:

The thing is that having a walled garden would be ideal, but this is unobtainable at least for now.  Moneyhatting exclusives will cost way more since the sales won't be good.  Same thing with MSFT exclusive developers/games.   So, they have to do purely 3rd party or they would have negative profit.  Microsoft won't get enough of an uptick in sales to justify the exclusives, in whatever form these exclusives may come by.

Moneyhatting won't be anywhere as necessary if SNY has the home console market on lock. If PS is confident enough that they can start putting non GASS games on XB, then PS doesn't need to spend anywhere near as much to lock games down to their platform. Most of those games will naturally sell way better on PS6, so SNY save a bunch of money that way.

Agreed, but that was my point.  If the hurdle is so low, why not jump over and really win?  MSFT will have to moneyhat or spend $$$$ on buying developers, etc etc etc.  In other words, the cost of exclusives for microsoft would be way too high.    

But we, agree so the two of us are just restating it all it would seem.