No, even the first sale doctrine really govern companies like MS, EA, Activision, Sony, Nintendo you name it.  What govern these companies is their wanting your money and competition in the market.  If one ever get to much success, they would throw their weight around and try to control the market.  

Well EA hates Nintendo and they don't trust Sony as much as MS because its a japanese company.

EA has been trying to have it's own COD for many years. Finally they got it, and they messed it up.

Call of duty wasn't this big when it first came out. It took time for it to be the huge franchise it is now. 

True, COD did not become big until Modern Warfare.

It is not even close to CoD... even Battlefield is bigger than Titanfall right now.

Really Tomas?

Comparing a franchise to a new entry must be the thing now.

Don't let the hate blind you friend.

If Titanfall sells 3 million combined on Xbox platforms and royalties to the platform are 20%, that's 36 million dollars. Add in whatever additional consoles it sold extra and the dollars those console owners will spend over the generation, and add in ancillary money from DLC platform fees and Live accounts and the like, and MS easily got the rumored $50 million worth in loans and funding it gave EA/Respawn.

I mean, the marketing budgets for these consoles are huge, and you can't begin to put a price tag on the extra PR push it gave the console. They could easily be dead in the water without Titanfall ending up in their stable. I still think Titanfall moved a lot of consoles in the launch window - - people buying early knowing it was coming and helping them pull the trigger on the X1 purchase. I know it was a factor in my getting one at launch, even though the game came out so much later.

I think sales would've been better if Titanfall was released in Oct. or Nov. since it's such a mainstream game.

So Titanfall is the EA's CoD.

It is sad but I have only one word to describe who believe that or agree with... FACEPALM!

The overhyped blinded you guys.