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Forums - Gaming - Sony Buys Exclusives ~ PR labels it “Incentives" (Unlike MS's Moneyhatting)

I'm not going to bother myself with reading that article as the title seems to say it all. However, I think this case isn't that simple. While MS supposedly buys games that were originally intended to be multiplatform, Sony encourages the development of exclusive games instead of 'stealing' them. Well, they might have have been intended as multiplatform games at first but I suppose this will (mostly) work so that it can't exactly be called stealing. It really depends on at which point they're still willing to pay.

Now if I only remembered what else I had to say...



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@Zkuq

I know what you forgot, it's OK when Sony does it! If it's MS then they are obviously corporate evil and greedy bastard intend to destroy gaming world.



This article is a weak, unfounded rant, if ever there was one. Why is he comparing Sony's promise to match dev costs for self-published titles (i.e. tiny independant devs) with the DLC for games like GTA4, Fallout 3, etc.?

We haven't even seen the details on what this cost matching actually is. Do they not take a cut of the titles sales, until the dev costs have been repaid out of Sony's portion of the profits? (pretty good deal, actually) Do they pay the money up front? (I doubt it) What does MS do for little devs, that matches this? They pay for DLC from big publishers... and... how is that related again?

This guy needs to stay inside the lines when drawing comparisons.



 

Uhmm... SONY's finding a way to make more money of 3rd party games on PS3??? I'm for it!!


EDIT: Actually... now that I think of it. This could be an awesome way to help small time dev's out. Hey, if it get's the system that I like more software i'm not complaining.



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mysticD said:
@Zkuq

I know what you forgot, it's OK when Sony does it! If it's MS then they are obviously corporate evil and greedy bastard intend to destroy gaming world.

If I'm wrong, you probably have a good argument against me. Show it then.

What, you're not going to do it? Well, that's what I thought anyway.



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NiKKoM said:
How do you keep getting finding these random blogs?? And why do you keep saying articles?? A blog is not an Article...

 

 lol true.



outlawauron said:
Wow, that guy really doesn't Sony.

I hate people who don't Sony.