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Million on 15 July 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Erm... Final Fantasy is not exclusive, and will not be coming out stateside in 2009, so you can put 2010 down for their "strategy". (I can't believe no one called him out on this... well this is the MS forum)

Here's the thing about this strategy though. Once the momentum shifts, you're left in the dust. This is why Ninty and Sony have moved to more internal development. In a few years, on the next wave of game consoles, if Third parties aren't feeling XBOX, they'll move on, and because of Microsoft's lackluster internal development, they'll be out in the cold.

And there's no question that MS will still finish last this generation. There's no more exclusives to make multi-plat and/or steal. Now I can't wait until next year's MS E3 conference. Nothing to steal, so their conference will have to stand on it's own.

That's what i've being saying like forever ,XBOX fans don't seem to care , a singifanct number of XBOX 360 exclusives , SO4 , Gears Of War , Mass Effect etc haven't been developed internaly by microsoft or any of it's own developement resources but have been bought , developers are likely to make games multiplatform if they're not exclusive the PS3 or 360 because there's little benefit out of making a game exclusive to either console unless there is some financial reward for it (something which microsoft offers alot of)

Microsoft will have to continualy buy exclusive titles to keep the 360 alive because they don't have the resources to make their own quality titles year on year like Nintendo and Sony do , and once 3rd party developers loose the financial incentive to develop for the 360 exclusivley you can guarantee the game will go multi-plat que Gears Of War 3 , Bioshock 2 , Mass Effect 2 etc .

Sony doesn't have to quite worry about this problem as much because they have their own development resources , they don't have to worry about GT5 , God OF War , Little Big Planet , Resistance 2 , Killzone 2 being bought out because they exclusivley own the titles. Sony invested in developing internaly for ages and in their time of need it's really paying off.

 




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eliasg on 15 July 2008

the list of PS3 exclusives is getting smaller and smaller...



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Bitmap Frogs on 15 July 2008
tedsteriscool said:
They have an interesting financial strategy too: Take away every possible great games away from other consoles by bribing companies in order to make your console look better. Looks like it pulled through...

 

There will be over 20 million 360's in consumers hands by the time FF13 lands. Given Sony is not paying for exclusivity, give me now a reason why SE should purposedly ignore 20-40 millions of revenue (gross estimation). Basically, you are operating under the assumption that dev companies do not want to put out games for MS system and dont want the money from the 360 userbase. That's nonsense. are you that bitter?

Let's look at the real situation - the ps3 has a sub 15 million installed base, the 360 is closing on 20 million and both are showing pitiful growth compared with the leading platform (Wii). High production value games cost at least 15 million dollars while blockbusters like FF13 are probably somewhere between 20 and 40 million dollars.

@Million: if you think using resources so 3rd party developers make the games instead of using an internal studio is "buying exclusives", I'm hoping you boycott White Knight Chronicles because that's Sony paying level 5 to develop a game exclusively for the playstation 3.





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