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Kennyheart on 20 January 2010

Pachter: Epic Regrets Signing Exclusive Gears Of War Contract With Microsoft

by Ernice Gilbert on January 20th, 2010, under Uncategorized
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The all knowing Michael Pachter had a lot of things to express on Game Trailers Bonus round, one of them being his belief that Epic Games now regrets signing a deal that would keep the Gears of War Franchise exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Geoff Keighley asked his audience of three, including Kotaku’s Michael McWhertor and Michael Pachter whether they thought it still made sense for publishers to release single platform titles.

“Absolutely not, and I think the Epic guys can’t wait to until they can start doing multiplatform games,” Pachter said. Keighley quickly inserted a question: “Do you think Gears of War is going multiplatform?”

“I don’t I think that Microsoft has a contract to make sure that they get that sequel, But I think Epic regrets signing that contract,” the wedbush Morgan analyst said. “You’re up to 11 million PS3 in the US and probably similar number in Europe, you got a 20 million addressable market with a game like Gears of War, I mean that thing would easily sell 3 or 4 million on the PS3; that’s a lot of profit.”

Well what’s written in stone can’t be undone; let’s hope Epic could come up with other ideas for games that everyone can enjoy. I’m sure they can.

No word on when the next Gears of War Will be released, but rest assured it’ll come exclusively to the Xbox 360.

http://www.gamesthirst.com/2010/01/20/pachter-epic-regrets-signing-exclusive-gears-of-war-contract-with-microsoft/



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alfredofroylan on 20 January 2010

What Bozo ... I mean Pachter thinks and what Epic thinks are two different things.



Kennyheart on 20 January 2010
CGI-Quality said:
It's official, he needs to be fired, I'm serious! 11 million selling franchise as an exclusive and there's something wrong?

Please...


what he means is that he thinks that GOW would be better on all consoules.Not wii



dsister44 on 20 January 2010

1. That article is horrible. Please I beg of you edit out the adds  
2. Pachter doesn't speak for Epic



pbroy on 20 January 2010

That article ran around in circles

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disolitude on 20 January 2010

Yeah...I heard bungie regrets making halo on the xbox. They would have sold better on a mac...



Aion on 20 January 2010

I hate this guy. Gears of War on 360 is a great idea.



 

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revovichfan12 on 21 January 2010

not in the sense of business. A huge franchise like Gears of War would sell a lot more if it was on the ps3 too. There is money to be made there and in a business sense, if you are a third party person, then multiplatform is the way to go to make the most amount of money possible



Currently Playing: God of War Collection

2010 Anticipations PS3: MAG, God of War 3, Heavy Rain, Last Guardian

2010 Anticipations 360: Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, alan wake, halo reach, fable III, fallout: new vegas

2010 Anticipations Wii: zelda

loves2splooge on 21 January 2010

Would Gears of War even be where they are today without Microsoft and the Xbox 360? You can't assume that Gears of War would have been a big seller as a multi-plat without the Microsoft funding, without the Microsoft marketing machine, without the extra hype you get in the media for being an exclusive and for being the 2nd face of the Xbox 360 (Master Chief obviously being the 1st). Can you imagine if Midway (publisher for Epic's Unreal Tournament 3) was the Gears of War publisher? It would be a disaster. If anything, Microsoft needs to be less forgiving in their business deals with gaming companies. They played too soft with a number of companies (Tecmo, Namco Bandai, and most importantly, Bioware. They let Bioware keep the Mass Effect IP. Idiots). Sony on the other hand, is no-nonsense. They bought out all the studios before they got a chance to become big. And every single Sony-published title that made it big is owned by Sony (Heavy Rain seems niche so that's probably why Sony didn't require Quantam to sign over that IP to them). Bottom line, if you as a publisher are putting big bucks into the development and marketing of a new franchise, you have every right to demand ownership of the franchise during negotiations or at least have the developer contractually by the balls to make the franchise exclusive to your platform.



revovichfan12 on 21 January 2010

what pachter means though is after the first one, epic shouldn't have signed the contract for the sequel to be exclusive. Epic games was given a one-game contract and then they could've gone multiplatform for the sequel and rerelease the first on the ps3 around the arrival of the sequel. THAT, is what pachter is talking about



Currently Playing: God of War Collection

2010 Anticipations PS3: MAG, God of War 3, Heavy Rain, Last Guardian

2010 Anticipations 360: Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, alan wake, halo reach, fable III, fallout: new vegas

2010 Anticipations Wii: zelda