I don't know everyone, but I can say I didn't think that for a minute. 

If EA accepted the contract with MS is because of the money and they knew the instalation base wouldn't be big in the beginning of generation. (loss easily compensate by money from MS)

When instalation base will reach the +40M it will be different, exclusive 3rd party will be much more difficult to obtain, specially if the gap is large.

Disagree, zero chance titanfall becomes a huge franchise now as it is seen as an xbox only series, won;t even do close to gears numbers.  Missing out on the biggest selling next gen console is never a good thing period. PAying for third party exclusivity is not good for anyone. That includes if sony does it which they don't anymore.

I don't care if you do, but thing is many prominent posters on both sides of the console war agree with me. We do not believe every news that is spoonfed to us. Common sense dictates given MS's history and frankly, if it isn't a quarterly statement (which by law have to be truthful), then I wouldn't take what EA says as gospel.

You seem to want to believe anything that discredits Xbox, but let's throw some lovely facts your way.

- Gears of War 1 opened to 1 million sales in its first 2 weeks. Due to 360 being out for a year and during the holiday season, it sold 3 million in 10 weeks. Between 360/X1/PC, it should have no problems with similar opening numbers.

- A more comparable game would be Ghost Recon, as it was a March 2006 game considered 360 centric while being a PC/last gen game title. It opened to 227k in opening week and sold 1.5 million on 360 lifetime. Not bad. Future installations of the GRAW IP favour 360 (missing data in GR 2 but it did sell just under 2 million).

- Another example of a March 2006 title is Oblivion, a 360/PC title at the time, which was very much anticipated. It opened to 327k opening week and went on to sell 4.12 million compared to PS3's 2.91 million. Skyrim, the sequel,  sold 7.77 million to PS3's 5.24. 

Just saying that Gears numbers are attainable with 3 platforms to sell on and X1 sales alone should compare to what 360 did with GRAW and Oblivion. Though sequels to Titanfall will paint a different picture with PS4 leading the instal base, it does show the potential in securing a young IP.

Paying for third party exclusivity is not good for anyone - False. It benefits the winning party. Sony has been paying for Assassins Creed exclusive content for a while......recently with Destiny. You really gotta do your homework if you plan to have the stance that your favourite corporation is squeaky clean.

LOL stopped reading after that.

Jokes on you, shows what kind of person I am dealing with. You disapoint me and aren't as capable of depth as I gave you the benefit of the doubt for.

Hahaha! That quoted sentence deserves like an award. Hilarious and true.

I can't believe slothman thinks he's winning points by responding 'I stopped reading after your first sentence.' That's why he doesn't come cloes to being taken seriously.

There is no reasoning with your post it's pure nonsense and delusion.  Please post more people in the consoel war agree lol, how can you even prove that or even use it as an argument. As for the winning side,. that would be sony and it's first party doing it and wiunning the right way.

Your entire argument falls apart with the fact the 360 had near double the install base in  the US, and launched a year earlier thus higher sales..... Nothing to do with the now. Last gen is history PS4 is already ahead it's a lot different ballgame now.

Want to make a sig bet titanfall doesn't do gears numbers?

Winning posts?? LOL are you 5 years old?

To be fair, if the decision was made in 2012 and obviously the main market is USA then forecasts of Xb dominance would have been very reasonable based on current info. But then I think a good lesson is not to forecast nextgen before nextgen details are officially out in public. I bet MS also had EA salivating over their DRM policy as well, and we all know how that turned out.