Why Are Sony Letting Microsoft Bully Them Out Of Familiar Franchises?

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chenguo4 on 13 February 2010

fastyxx said:
We forget sometimes that this is a business - not a sport. MS outcoached Sony at the start of the generation - remember how smug Sony was when it unveiled the PS3. Things will shift back Sony's way in time. These things are cyclical. Games that were only on Xbox are coming to PS3 eventually too.

There's too much money available - and dev costs are too high - for anybody not 1st or 2nd party to go exclusive for too long. And the number of units being sold on these big franchises will put the price tag for buying exclusives in the major franchises WAY too high for it to make sense.

A minor, temporary blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.

This is exactly how I see it.

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Sephiroth357 on 13 February 2010

dsister44 said:
It should be bannable to post random blog crap. >.>

On topic: didn't Sony pay for the Batman exclusive DLC?

What exclusive DLC isn't paid for?

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dsister44 on 13 February 2010

GameAnalyser said:
"Sony won’t pay for exclusives and I think that’s admirable"- they are upto something this gen and M$ wonder what.

Debt?

*soundofrain said:

Microsoft is full of money while Sony isn't

Basically this

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dsister44 on 13 February 2010

Sephiroth357 said:

dsister44 said:
It should be bannable to post random blog crap. >.>

On topic: didn't Sony pay for the Batman exclusive DLC?

What exclusive DLC isn't paid for?

The first line of the article says that they don't pay for exclusives

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Sephiroth357 on 13 February 2010

dsister44 said:

Sephiroth357 said:

dsister44 said:
It should be bannable to post random blog crap. >.>

On topic: didn't Sony pay for the Batman exclusive DLC?

What exclusive DLC isn't paid for?

The first line of the article says that they don't pay for exclusives

No, actually it doesn't say that.

If Microsoft pays for DLC...

EDIT: Besides look at the title. Are?

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Stefan.De.Machtige on 13 February 2010

Money.

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The_vagabond7 on 13 February 2010

It's not that Sony won't, it's that Sony can't. The entertainment division had been bleeding money for the first few years of the PS3's life, and they lost billions. The actual figure I can't remember but they lost all of the money they made on the PS1 and PS2 combined just on the PS3's first few years of life. Try justifying getting into a bidding war with microsoft over timed exclusivity to your shareholders when your division is already hemorrhaging money like a man who just had his jugular sliced. It would not go over well. They are finally getting back into a decent position with the PS3 financially, but if they want to ever make some kind of money back, they can't compete for things in the way Microsoft is motivated to.

Sony fanboys like to say that sony is incredibly honorable for not "buying" exlusives like that evil slimey despicable "Micro$oft" but you can bet your sweet bippy that if sony had the capital to do so, they would be fighting microsoft tooth and nail and throwing wads of cash at everyone with pockets. There is no "honor" is multibillion dollar corporations, there is only results for your shareholders.