I thought we won't agree on this but yes, again: If you intentionally leave out other platforms a game will be on then you imply it is not on other platforms.

You don't see this? Other opinion? Ok but to me this is deceiving the customers.

This is almost the same reason as people think it is lying if you don't say the whole truth. You can agree it's lying or you don't, it won't change other people's opinion.

You are trying to paint a picture of an educated and informed customer where this only rarely is true. We are talking about millions of customers here and we are the minority because it is our passion.

And yes, to me it doesn't care who tries to deceive people. It *is* bad to me.

Wait a minute, if it was simply financial support, how did they Sony beat Microsoft? Sure you can always speculate moneyhatting, but honestly its more of a stretch in this case. Not to mention, Sony has no publishing restrictions for games they do not publish but have on their platform.

There is no reason for No Man's Sky to be first on PS4 simply by money alone, or even money at all. If Hello games is delaying the other releases of No Man's Sky, it cannot because they are contractually obligated by money.

Sony doesn't buy timed exclusivity of a game to keep it off another platform, they just buy timed exclusive dlc, or exclusive content of a game because they have to compete with MS, else people will say shit like "Oh Sony isn't doing anything", like with the updates, "MS is buying all this exclusive content and Sony is just sitting on 10 million consoles" or whatever. Its silly, but this is the state of affairs right now.

I stopped reading after the line about Titanfall and Bayonetta 2, but yes, exactly like those. Which according to the VGC community, are moneyhats. 1+1=2.

Well, if that's what the VGC community believes, then I'll be an outlier and say that that's wrong. Funding a project is different from paying to make sure it doesn't show up elsewhere. The former makes sure the game happens; the latter makes sure the game that's already gonna happen only happens for you.

You can't justifiably call it a "moneyhat" when you invest in the project because you like the game's premise/vision/what have you, and that money is what allows the game to develop. Exclusivity is the end result because, at the same time, they're businesses, and they're not going to, essentially, pay for their competition's benefit.

I don't care if a game is 3rd party, if your money makes the game exist, it should be treated the same way we treat first party. Because, obviously, without that money, nobody would be playing it as the game would be vaporware

Nevermind

Bloodborne is exclusive title to Sony because they know the Souls series has a cult following and people will buy Playstation 4s just to play this title.  So when Mr. Jim Ryan claims that Sony doesn't need to buy exclusivity that comes with a HUGE ASTERISK.  You can spin it nany way you want...

Read up on Demon's Souls and how Sony was originally dismissive of the game until it became a success.  Now Sony is back with hat in hand asking From to make an exclusive spiritual successor

More like they can't afford to buy exclusivity anymore.

They never did, even when they had a ton of money, and they don't need to either.

dismissive enough to have SCEJ help develop the game and for SCE to publish it in Japan?

Or dismissive because the build that Yoshida played was nothing like the final game and was extremely buggy?