Men I was so pissed when I hear they canceled eight days.

im glad at least some 3rd party can understand that exclusivity does help increase the quality of the game

In a strict bidding situation that MAY be true.  However there are mitigating factors.  1.  MS cannot buy everything that shows promise - even if they have the funds, that doesn't mean it is a wise choice.  2.  The thing about bidding is that something is only worth what you can get somebody to pay at the time of selling (years of e-bay here).  Perhaps MS bid what they thought was fair - for an unproven franchise - and Sony topped it.

As for "if Sony was moneyhatting", again perhaps they tried but the economics (and I don't mean MS moneyhats) were too convincing.  I know that, if I were a developer and I was making a game that COULD BE DONE on both consoles that I would put it on BOTH unless I were offered "incentive" not too - aka a moneyhat.  That scenario only affects GRANTING exclusivity, otherwise, sure I would do it on both.   As for MS gaining former PS exclusives as multiplat, moneyhats are not really needed for that these days, it's simple economics.  "If it can be done without compromising the vision, then why not," will (and should) be the prevailing opinion.

For example...

DMC4 = can be easily done on the 360 which has a huge following in US = obvious decision to multiplat = no moneyhat needed

Gears of War = can be easily done on PS3 BUT MS offers money hat incentive that Epic sees as superior to multiplat sales = exclusive

Now, not all games can be EASILY done on X360 - such as - perhaps - MGS4 because it was written from the ground up for Blu-Ray and PS3.  Can it be done?  Sure, probably.  Will it - doubtful.

Before anyone says, what about FFXIII, well, I think we all know that SE was working on it LONG before it was announced. 

EDITED due to an errant and confusing paragraph placement, and thanks to CGI for the kind words. 

cant wait to hear more about this title...

if it's as good as T2 and R* are saying... we should be in for a great game

Squilliam said: Usually you would hype the game up until about 1 month before release, then announce that its multi-plat and bathe in the free publicity. *Not that its what I think will happen*

At that point, fanboys of the system the game was on, suddenly stop saying that the game is "THE BEST GAME EVA!" to either ignoring it completely or saying it will suck, OR will end up pitching the Vs version of the game as "THE BEST GAME EVA!"

richardhutnik said: Squilliam said: Usually you would hype the game up until about 1 month before release, then announce that its multi-plat and bathe in the free publicity. *Not that its what I think will happen* At that point, fanboys of the system the game was on, suddenly stop saying that the game is "THE BEST GAME EVA!" to either ignoring it completely or saying it will suck, OR will end up pitching the Vs version of the game as "THE BEST GAME EVA!"

LOL?? alrdy dreaming of this game to go multiplat?

It obviously will not go multiplat

Sony gave up GTA timed exclusive for this one. Yeah it might come to the 360 or more likely, the 720. A lot of wheeling and dealing went on behind the scenes this generation, a lot of it happened before either a PS3 or 360 had ever been sold. For the beginning of this generation you saw a lot of Microsoft "stealing" from the PS brand. When you see Agent exclusive on PS3 you realise, that it's not Sony who is still playing catchup. It's Microsoft. With dying tech at a bargain bin prices Microsoft's console experiment is running out of gas.

Your bias really shines through. Microsoft is playing catching up while Sony continues to lose money and is in the process of restructuring itself?

Yes, your post makes so much sense that it makes none at all.

It's amazing the gains the Xbox has made on the Playstation brand considering the scenario last generation.

Microsoft's little console experiment seems to have the Playstation 3 in third place.