Sony Says "Nothing Is Ever Exclusive"

Sony Computer Entertainment UK director Ray Maguire gives fans of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider: Underworld hope for the future of "exclusive" downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 platform. Each has promised DLC only for Microsoft's Xbox 360, but Maguire tells VideoGamer that "One thing to remember, nothing is ever exclusive."

He has a point. We've watched exclusivity deals dissolve more than once during this generation (BioShock, Final Fantasy XIII).

Maguire, who's been chatty lately, explains to the less big business strategically inclined, "Things get wrapped up for a period of time for a large amount of money and if it's a strategic decision by competition to do that then we have to live with that."

Sony, Mr. Maguire says, has better things to do with its money.

"I would much rather that we were investing money into making sure that we've got great R&D and we start producing games like LittleBigPlanet," he adds, "rather than paying other people a huge amount of money to stop people playing their product."

We're glad that Sony is investing internally, even if it means things like EyePet get greenlighted, but we'd bet some PS3 owners certainly wouldn't mind a well-secured exclusive or two of their own. For the record, we're 99.44% sure this doesn't apply to Metal Gear Solid 4, give or take a few percentage points. Haze, maybe. Definitely maybe.

http://kotaku.com/5070516/sony-says-nothing-is-ever-exclusive

So MGS4 is 99.44 likely to stay PS3 exclusive for ever but Haze maybe not. It seem Ubisoft just decided to port Haze to 360.

That's third parties for ya.

Look at this:

WipEout HD came out last month.

Socom: Confrontation came out two weeks ago.

LittleBigPlanet and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift came out this past week.

Resistance 2 comes out next week.

Killzone 2 comes out in February, and White Knight Chronicles should be localized sometime around then, as it hits Japan in December.

InFamous follows in May.

These games will ALWAYS be exclusive to the ps3. How long will Microsoft's third party "exclusives" stay exclusive? Like Tales of Vesperia? The upcoming Star Ocean 4? All the big ones should go the way of Bioshock, and even the smaller ones might follow the path of Eternal Sonata, depending on who the publisher is (like Namco).

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