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celador on 05 August 2015

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that market share has nothing to do with the third-party exclusive we are seeing on PS4, it's all about the money.

Speaking to GameSpot about third-party exclusives on PS4, Spencer said: "So, they don't "gobble" the deals up. They buy them. You know, I read the same things you do, and I know some people think it's somehow less expensive to sign third-party exclusives if you have a bigger market-share. I can tell you, it has nothing to do with market share."

He added: "When you go in to do a deal, with a third party, that third party has its own view of the global market and the value of it. And they should, they should think about their assets and how valuable they are, just like anyone would when they are selling their goods."

http://www.videogamer.com/xboxone/halo_5/news/sony_is_buying_third-party_exclusives_for_ps4_says_xbox_boss.html



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Ryng on 05 August 2015

Meanwhile, in a italy site... :P
http://multiplayer.it/notizie/154357-phil-spencer-sony-ha-pagato-gli-accordi-con-le-terze-parti.html#comments_container



DonFerrari on 05 August 2015

Yes it certainly cost the same ti buy exclusivisity on 10M and 160M userbase.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

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Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

RenCutypoison on 05 August 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Not true, at least for Japan anyways. Sony get plenty of 3rd party exclusives from Japan based on their market share alone. Microsoft are non-existent there so why would they bother making games for them?


MIcrosoft : "Japan ? Is that one of these Pokemon I keep hearing about ?"

He might think that because they had to buy Blue Dragon and Idolm@ster and are still salty it didn't work.



TheObserver on 05 August 2015

Sounds like BS, it's common sense that market share has an effect on 3rd party deals.
Is he really suggesting that a 3rd party publisher will make an exclusivity deal like say Tomb Raider for the same amount of money with MS as they would with Sony?lol



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ArchangelMadzz on 05 August 2015

I'm EA and I want to release game X on systems 1 and systems 2. Hmm System 1 want's it to be exclusive to that system and they have 25 million users.. hmm well that'll cost them a pretty penny.

System 2 also wants it to be exclusive and they ave 13 million users, that'll cost them exactly the same as system 1...


Does that make sense to anybody? Of course Sony are paying for it but it wouldn't cost them as much as it costs Microsoft. It's Business 101. Unless anyone really believes they'd be charged the same for exclusivity?



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Intrinsic on 05 August 2015

You guys relax. He's just trying to see how stupid everyone is.



Mystro-Sama on 05 August 2015
RenCutypoison said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Not true, at least for Japan anyways. Sony get plenty of 3rd party exclusives from Japan based on their market share alone. Microsoft are non-existent there so why would they bother making games for them?


MIcrosoft : "Japan ? Is that one of these Pokemon I keep hearing about ?"

He might think that because they had to buy Blue Dragon and Idolm@ster and are still salty it didn't work.


Yea, they might as well just share Lost Odyssey too.



TheObserver on 05 August 2015
Intrinsic said:
You guys relax. He's just trying to see how stupid everyone is.


lol, This kind of BS is really gonna take a toll on his "straight talker" reputation though.



Roronaa_chan on 05 August 2015

You had to go and ruin your streak Phil