Linux support is only from indies and valve.

These estimates are generalizations, I'm ignoring a lot of the factors cause it complicates things way too much. Thats also why I'm grosly over estimating how well TF will do on both Windows and Non Windows platforms. We can make estimations and predictions, they can be wrong but they affect decisions where we don't know the future outcome, just like Titan Fall was.

Yes. Owning Respawn would cost more than buying Titanfall, but the point is that TitanFalls current performance is indicative of how much future third party exclusives will cost MS, and that is what I see as costing less then owning studios.

Furthermore, Shadow brought up an excellent point of about a third of 360 market having access to TF, thats 26 mill. Applying the same 2/3 rule to the PS3 but then accounting for the fact that PS3 online multiplayer is free that means we don't have to divide it by 2 which means 56 million addressable on the PS3. Even if those 26 mil with 360s had ps3s, thats still 30 million which would drop to 29.9 million with the pcs

Titanfall's exclusivity was based on the predictions of how well the XB1 was gonna do, future 3rd parties have more accurate data, and thats going to cause the exclusivity price to skyrocket for MS. I dun think its sustainable. The predictated losses were managable, but this unexpected fall out is gonna wreak havoc on those models.

Obviously, MS, EA, and Sony have more accurate numbers, but I doubt it paints a picture as pretty as this.

Not to mention that Legs work against MS in this predictive analysis cause that just magnifies the loss as we extrapolate over time.

It annoys me to see people make a big deal out of this game just because it's not on PS4. If people really want to play it they have 3 options to play this game and 2 of them really aren't expensive at this point.

Its not about TitanFall persay, but its the most recent 3rd party exclusive with respect to publisher, and I'm more concerned with using it to discuss how much 3rd party exclusives will cost Xbox in the future and whether or not it makes sense to invest in them versus buying studios/keeping more thigns in house.

This. 

Judging from sales, I don't think the other 70% cares. It fell to fifth in only it's second week and was outsold by a PS2 port. Lol

Some people here are too distracted by the fact that I used Titan Fall as an example. The fact that its TitanFall isn't really the point, its just that is the most recent 3rd Party Exclusive published by a multiplat publisher.

The Questions I'm more concerned with are as follows:

M$ saying they are bringing more to gamers, but in truth they are really taking away from them because they can't make anything better. Regardless,I am still enjoying the hell out of it. ;)

People try to deny this game matters but they 'can't keep its name out they mouths.'

Who is denying it? I'm not. Titan Fall is very important. But it could have backfired to say the least. Had it been fully multiplat, sure XB1 would have less sales, all things the same, with MS marketting it exclusively, XB1 would probably outsell PS4 on Titanfall copies. 

However, it probably drove up the cost for 3rd party exclusivity, at the very least for MS. The decision was made from predictive data, now we have actual metrics that project the near opposite.

Long story short, Xbox can't rely on Multiplats let alone sensible 3rd party devs who are deciding between competitors for an exclusive. Owning Respawn would've been a better investment than paying off EA. Thats where they should be focusing their money. TitanFall proves it.