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MoHasanie said:

It came out with very little advertising and around the same time as some big games. It's MS's fault it flopped.

Well hopefully MS payed Insomniac enough for the exclusive to help.



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Linchpin said:
MoHasanie said:

It came out with very little advertising and around the same time as some big games. It's MS's fault it flopped.

Well hopefully MS payed Insomniac enough for the exclusive to help.

SO bundle sold faster than anything on the market while it was available.



Goatseye said:

SO bundle sold faster than anything on the market while it was available.

Of course. I couldn't find any in stock from the retail stores within a week after it was released but not sure how many was sent out at the time.



MS paid for the development of the game and not to be exclusive on XBO so that they did pay enough as long as Insomniac didn't have higher costs as expected.

It's not as if the game was already in development and MS paid Insomniac only to release not on other platforms.





crissindahouse said:
MS paid for the development of the game and not to be exclusive on XBO so that they did pay enough as long as Insomniac didn't have higher costs as expected.

It's not as if the game was already in development and MS paid Insomniac only to release not on other platforms.



Does that mean Insomnaic can release SO on PS4 at any time?



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shikamaru317 said:
Just found an indie that needs to come to Xbox One, Freedom Planet. It started it's life as Sonic fangame but the creator later decided to turn it into a new IP. Looks freaking awesome. Only on PC right now, make it happen MS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3FJQ-hnMek

Ristar + sonic hybrid, sounds fun to me.



shikamaru317 said:

Apparently the developer is planning on releasing on Vita or Wii U next : ( I wish Microsoft would go for more indies like this. 

Are you going to pick up Ori?



Yes, Ori is day one for me.



    

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Linchpin said:
crissindahouse said:
MS paid for the development of the game and not to be exclusive on XBO so that they did pay enough as long as Insomniac didn't have higher costs as expected.

It's not as if the game was already in development and MS paid Insomniac only to release not on other platforms.



Does that mean Insomnaic can release SO on PS4 at any time?

No idea how you got that from my post. If MS pays a developer to realize a game it is obviously only for XBox and maybe PC but MS paid the whole development costs, that's what I meant. Would be something else if Insomniac would work on a game which they want to release on different consoles and MS would pay them money to bring it only on Xbox. Low sales could be a big problem then since the payment wouldn't be for all development costs. 

Pretty much like what happens with games like the Forza Horizon games. Low sales could mean no new Horizon games but not that Playground loses money since MS paid them for all their costs. 

It's like a contract work. Well, at least I think MS paid Insomniac for the whole development and not only few millions and the rest has to come from sales. 



crissindahouse said:
Linchpin said:
crissindahouse said:
MS paid for the development of the game and not to be exclusive on XBO so that they did pay enough as long as Insomniac didn't have higher costs as expected.

It's not as if the game was already in development and MS paid Insomniac only to release not on other platforms.



Does that mean Insomnaic can release SO on PS4 at any time?

No idea how you got that from my post. If MS pays a developer to realize a game it is obviously only for XBox and maybe PC but MS paid for the development costs, that's what I meant. Would be something else if Insomniac would work on a game which they want to release on different consoles and MS would pay them money to bring it only on Xbox. Then low sales could be a big problem if the exclusivity deal wasn't good paid but in this case MS paid to let this game even happen so that Insomniac should have enough money.

Pretty much like what happens with games like the Forza Horizon games. Low sales could mean no new Horizon games but not that Playground loses money since MS paid them for all their costs. 

I thought you meant MS didn't pay for it to be exclusive but just for the developing of it. So I assumed Imsomniac has the rights to release the game on the other platforms at anytime.