why moneyhat when you can userbasehat.

so long as ps4 continues outselling xbox 3:1 ps4 will always be the lead platform and xbox will be a port if the developer has the resources to bother or care about it. big publishers will want to support xbox because AAA is so expensive but for indies it is probably sometimes more cost effective to not give a fuck about xbox than to try and port their game.

DLC and full games are two completely different things :)

indies usually don't have enough staff to work on several versions at once, maybe Sony did something (doesn't have to be outright sending money) to encourage them to work on the PS4 version first (btw the game still is coming to the other platforms afaik)

"..it can take the form of having Sean Murray from Hello Games on the stage at E3.."

read much?

it's the same as with the witness.  jon blow said they had already choosen to only support 1 console before sony ever approached them.  trading a lot of free press for a piece of paper that says you'll be timed-exclusive when you already planned to be timed-exclusive due to not having the resources to support launch partiy is a pretty easy decision, imo.

Show me evidence that Sony payed them please. Perhaps they wanted to release it on the console with the largest userbase first?

Edit: I'll streal Kitlers term #userbasehatting!

Well yea, they actually have an excellent first party to stand on. Not the paltry offerings MS brings.

They do, they just can't afford to buy a lot of exclusivity these days because they don't have the bankroll they did 10-15 years ago.

I'm sure sony pays for 3rd party exclusives though. This won't get much of a reaction in a negative way though, because you know... bias.

Nintendo approached the devs with a dev kit and the devs always said it was "secondary" to PC. Now they came out and said WiiU had too small a userbase for it. Nobody said Sony paid for it. Heck, they don't need to now that everybody knows they are destroying the competition.

Except he never says "We don't need to buy exclusivity." Click bait title.