Sony does care about third party developers. They merely lack the resources to court them. Their only recourse is to turn inward to develop exclusive content for their system. They simply lack the capitol due to their platform strategy. The Sony model was strong on sprint, poor on stamina, and heavy in the realms of gut wrenching desperation.

Sony had a very poor launch strategy that literally devoured much of their gaming divisions expendable income. Their console was estimated to loss lead by two hundred dollars, but in less then a year they had to radically redesign their machine, and double their loss lead. While they were cornered into providing free services for consumers on a continuous basis. Were that not bad enough Microsoft is likely to keep pushing the price front.

Microsoft despite the hardware dilemma has ensured that they have ample revenue streams which allows them to fund third party development. The Live service is a proven money maker. Their game sales are licensing gold. Finally their longer stretch on the market has allowed them to defer cutting the price on their machine. The result they ate no comparable loss to what Sony ate. They are flush with money, and if Live is any indication Microsoft is going to have ample funds to continually purchase exclusivity.

I think the statements by Sony are rather mature. They cannot do anything about the situation where they now find themselves. So there is no point in crying about something you have no control over. They could liquidate some of their studios for a quick influx of revenue, but first party titles are the most likely way they are going to generate enough profit to begin to offset their losses.

Whether Sony cares or not is irrelevant. They seem to have expected that they would have it whereas Microsoft seemed to prioritize getting more of that this generation. They set aside revenue to purchase exclusives. Their architecture supported PC game porting. Their pay to play services have done well to keep them flush with cash. The result isn't what some are expecting, and will probably only get worse over time.

The reality is that Microsoft is simply going to get many more exclusives then Sony. Perhaps next year Sony might find some room to purchase a few titles, but they will be nowhere near Microsoft.

sony's 1st party titles are very impressive, and as long as the 3rd party ones are multiplatform it would then depend on whose inhouse games are better which is sony.

Correction: Both the 360 and PS3 are getting an inferior PORT.  The game is being developed on the PC with their proprietary Crystal Tools and is being PORTED over to the other platforms.

I agree... They are no Nintendo... and right now every exclusive is important but I believe Sony will survive this generation and come out stronger...New 1st and 2nd party IPs help in the long run. So if anything Microsoft might actually be helping Sony.

Once again: No S-E will not downgrade and or cheapen the 360 version of FF13 in any way. Just because you lost faith in S-E does not mean that they would wish to shoot themselves in the foot that way. (Remember bigger fan base this gen. could translate to bigger fan base next gen) (I didn't word that the best way but I think you get the point.)

Because almost every studio they own was once third party. ;) 

I mean, that's what they do.  They improve their own first party by buying third party studios and then turning into gigantic first party power houses.  Compare the Guerrilla Games of today to what it was four years ago.  The difference is immense.

Why would they buy Level 5 specifically?  Because it is a studio that they have a close relationship with.  It's the same reason they bought Zipper, Guerrilla, and Evolution Studios, despit the fact that all had been 2nd party for years before they were bought, and were extremely unlikely to make games for non-Sony platforms.

Also, if they owned Level 5 then they'd ONLY work on the PSP and ps3, rather then spending so much time on the DS.

However, they probably won't buy ANYTHING unti mid-2009 at the earliest, because the funds just aren't there.  But when they do start to become profitable again, they'll definitely be looking into some RPG studios.

What are you trying to say? Sony has much more 1st party studios, and games than nintendo does, they can handle themselves fine. Also were did you get this " Nintendo made the same with GC like the ps2"

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It's not that they don't care, IDK y everybody keeps coming to that conclusion. It's just that Microsoft has SOO much money (obviously) that they rather not spend overly amount of money on a third party exclusive (which they will still get) knowing that Microsoft can easily match and surpass wat Sony offers. Since I already own a PS3 (not just cuz of FFXIII), I would rather them spend the money they could have spent on FFXIII exclusivity on funding new games/1st party studios.

I think you are wrong Soriku. It's extremely smart of Sony to encourage their own first-party for a lot of reason. First of all, they have complete control on the game and development process. Second of all, they are always sure the franchises remain on Sony platforms. Third of all, in the long-run, they will have really strong first party developers like Nintendo has and the core userbase would allow them to sustain their hard times. In short, they are investing their money for the long term.

If you buy exclusivity, you basically give the money to a third-party and hope that it helps you. Micro$oft do it because that always been their business strategy from the moment they bought their first OS to today.

Oh noes, slight detail lost because of compressed video and audio ... I bet every XBox 360 owner will throw their XBox 360 in the trash and spend $400 on a PS3 for that!

Seriously, I would hardly say such small differences are justification for calling one version inferior ... They might matter for the handful of people who own both systems, but it is nothing to really care about.