Seriously. Those of you down on Sony are acting crazy. There's no more exclusivity for big third party games. There's too much money involved.
Let's say FFXIII only sells moderately well on 360 and moves 1.5 million copies. I'd guess it'll sell more than that, considering Mass Effect did almost 2 million and Oblivion did over 2.5 million WW and Lost Odyssey did 800k. But let's say 1.5 just to be safe. Squeenix's share of that is about $40 a copy. Maybe more if MS swung a deal. That's $60 million in gross sales, at least to SE. Sony lost $3 billion and is still losing money on every console sold. FFXIII is not worth $60 million to Sony at this point. That's huge money.
If you have a title that will move over a million for any platform, you can't not put it out if you are a 3rd party. The money's just too big. The only reason Infinite Undiscovery is 360 only is because Microsoft Game Studios had a hand in its development. (Blue Dragon too?)
That ship has sailed. Maybe a company does it for new IP because they don't know if it'll sell and they can keep development costs down - maybe port it later if it takes off . If any company is going to get console exclusives it's going to be 360 because the game architecture is so similar to PC that it's an easy port of games really developed for PC.
Can't we all just get along and play our games in peace?
