Are we seriously having this discussion again? Microsoft paid EA to get it exclusive, it's that simple. Nothing wrong with that, great for XBO owners, PS4 owners will get Titanfall 2.
Sigs are dumb. And so are you!
still could potentially have sold more on the X1. xbox core is the FPS fan base. at the very least the ratio of console owner to titan fall buyer would most likely be higher for the xbox one.
Look at ghost......
Oh come on the drm gate was and is still pure BS.... 90% of the customer buy and sell their games through stores that would have been accredited anyway.... Only the hardcore gamers with a better local store or time to go through eBay or craig's list where really concerned which is an incredible small minority...
now that being said... PS4 might have a decent head start, they are far from the expected total domination most of us planned... And the road is very long until the end of the Gen... MS has still plenty of cards to play... Beside Europe and Japan emerging markets and other Asian markets with 0 national interest are up for grabs... And they have way more power to be aggressive on pricing and non gaming offer they can invest in proportion Sony will never be capable of in the next decade... From a pure business stand point MS can still be the most profitable this Gen and the most lucrative for publisher if they play it right... They way more maneuverability imo... I still believe that the gap will never reach the extremes people had planned a few months ago...
| BMaker11 said: Bullshit. EA doesn't just "go exclusive" based on userbase. If that was the case, Army of Two, Burnout Paradise, Dante's Inferno, etc. would have gone exclusive to 360 since the 360s userbase was much bigger and would "offset potential sales the games could have had if released on PlayStation". Why don't they just man up and say MS paid them. Rockstar did when the 360 got GTAIV DLC. But, then again, that's a bad precedent to compare to, since that $50M DLC ended up on PS3 anyway....and EA multiplats everything. MS must have spent a LOT of money to *truly* keep this game exclusive. Hrmm.... |
EA isn't known for ignoring a console with a competent installed base, so this would make them look incredibly stupid even for taking MS money and going console exclusive.
I can't wait for the truth to come out.
---Member of the official Squeezol Fanclub---
| endimion said: Oh come on the drm gate was and is still pure BS.... 90% of the customer buy and sell their games through stores that would have been accredited anyway.... Only the hardcore gamers with a better local store or time to go through eBay or craig's list where really concerned which is an incredible small minority... now that being said... PS4 might have a decent head start, they are far from the expected total domination most of us planned... And the road is very long until the end of the Gen... MS has still plenty of cards to play... Beside Europe and Japan emerging markets and other Asian markets with 0 national interest are up for grabs... And they have way more power to be aggressive on pricing and non gaming offer they can invest in proportion Sony will never be capable of in the next decade... From a pure business stand point MS can still be the most profitable this Gen and the most lucrative for publisher if they play it right... They way more maneuverability imo... I still believe that the gap will never reach the extremes people had planned a few months ago... |
You don't know that. I know I'm just speaking for myself here, but I go to Disc Replay, and there's only a handful of stores for that chain. But I can go there and pick up Skyrim for $15, and ANY used game (so all of them, since that's all they sell) will be no more than $42.99. Not only $5 off MSRP, like Gamestop. If someone sold a game to DR a week after it came out, it wouldn't be $54.99. It'd still be $42.99.
And eBay is great for buying and selling games as well. You get straight up money, as opposed to store credit, and you get way more than what "accredited" stores would offer. I think the "small minority" is bigger than what you think, and even if it wasn't, you shouldn't support it just just because "only the hardcore gamers blah blah blah"
lies.
the way EA snubbed the ps4 reveal and showed up in full force for the xbox reveal... EA went with xbox, imo, because they wanted to put their weight behind xbox's DRM strategy. EA has a long history with loving DRM.
| J_Allard said: Nowhere in there does it say EA thought Xbox One would sell more. They could have thought the two would be exactly where they are right now and that the money sent by MS would offset any potential losses incurred by skipping the $ony platforms. They could have thought the PS4 would be 3 million ahead by now for all we know. The value that matters 99.9% in this equation is how much MS paid them, and we don't know that one. |
I agree pretty much with this statement. It makes more sense to believe that EA was looking for an exclusive partner and they needed to forcast how much to sell that agreement.
Machiavellian said:
I agree pretty much with this statement. It makes more sense to believe that EA was looking for an exclusive partner and they needed to forcast how much to sell that agreement. |
Yeah I never even considered that while we have people going on about M$ moneyhats and all, it could have actually been EA/Respawn going to both companies looking for the best solution. That is, after all, exactly what Respawn said they did. And then they could have looked over their projections for the consoles and saw it was viable to release it on MS platforms. Doesn't mean they expected the Xbox One to outsell the PS4.
BMaker11 said:
You don't know that. I know I'm just speaking for myself here, but I go to Disc Replay, and there's only a handful of stores for that chain. But I can go there and pick up Skyrim for $15, and ANY used game (so all of them, since that's all they sell) will be no more than $42.99. Not only $5 off MSRP, like Gamestop. If someone sold a game to DR a week after it came out, it wouldn't be $54.99. It'd still be $42.99. And eBay is great for buying and selling games as well. You get straight up money, as opposed to store credit, and you get way more than what "accredited" stores would offer. I think the "small minority" is bigger than what you think, and even if it wasn't, you shouldn't support it just just because "only the hardcore gamers blah blah blah" |
beside pawnshops and very small chain it's not like people have many choices anyway hence why most people go to major store retailers..... and most of the small one and even main gaming only store have been going through really hard times lately... i.e.GAME that went south in several countries.... with gamestop and subsidiary holding almost the entire market in some countries and even them areunder fire.....
that being said.... I don't care either way since I'm going DD this gen anyway and took this decision way before the XBox one reveal.... I'm just not gonna buy a full cart of game at a time like I use to do every few month or so, I'll just get one or 2 at a time untill I finish them and then 1 or 2 more etc.... and will be looking way more at digital discounts than I did early this gen.... cause right now going to second hand store I have something like 25 games left to play on 360 or to finish (most of which are big name titles) .... so yeah I'm done with discs anyway....
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