If you were employed by Sony, who have lost a huge amount of important exclusives recently, would you really say nothing is ever exclusive?
''We have some great exclusives still! Like FF13:versus and MGS4! Then again nothing is exclusive so don't worry about it. We will all have the same games so I guess just get the cheaper console... oh erm no I mean the more expensive one with the same games''
@Strangelove: All of the properties you listed belong to first parties. Exclusivity is referring to third party publishers sticking to one platform, such as 2K Games with Bioshock.
@Strangelove: SOlid Snake and Sackboy would argue that point. I guess Sackboy has yet to prove his worth but given the already immense positive feedback the little fella is getting, I wouldn't be so surprised if he became the next Sonic or Mario even.
Except that the MGS series has appeared on multiple consoles and even MGSIV is likely to be ported to 360. If Snake was completely exclusive to Sony, I would agree with you, but he's just not synonymous with PS.
The jury is out on LBP. It's done well critically, but I'm not sure how much of a buzz there is with the general gaming public who doesn't read a million previews for months.
This is funny as hell, when Sony had no issues with paying for exclusives. You also know what's not exclusive Sony? The #1 spot, which you are as far away from as we are sending manned missions to Saturn. Stop your crying, Microsoft has taken your own tactic and has not only blunted your edge with it, but is strangling you with it.
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@Jun581 won't give you tree fiddy!!: Also I don't know that Sony bought exclusivity they just were the biggest distribution channel so they got exclusivity for just that. MS on the other hand did not have that advantage so they had to throw some money around to get some good IP going. They leveraged that money and marketing to build halo and gears and to a lesser extent some others. Sony still has not marketed a game as well as those were marketed to such mainstream levels of mass appeal.
@Ehardergardens: well you can't blame a company for not putting their products on soda cans and underwears. MS has good talent so they can develop good original IP's. Shadowrun, although...not very good, had promise and it was just the beginning.
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Totally makes sense. With the cost of development increasing each generation of consoles it makes no sense for 3rd party dev's to lock into one console.
Sony realise this and are heavily investing into 1st party development. I remember reading awhile back, that Sony has more development studio's than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.
Also I wonder if Microsofts $50 million cheque to Take 2 for GTA IV dlc exculsivity is going to pay-off? Are people going to care to buy the dlc nearly a year after the game has been released? The money given to Take 2 could have been used for new development on new IP's.
@Certop: good point. actually considering the obvious difference between how many people own more 360's than PS3's the sales comparisons between the two for GTA IV I thought the 360 sales would have been a whole lot higher than the PS3 camp, but instead it was like 60:40....you have to wonder if that 50 million was worth it
I love me some sony, but all of this "We don't care about exclusives" news is bullshot. Of COURSE they care about exclusives. It would be alright if they said this when asked a question about it, but they randomly announce their lack of desire for exclusive titles. They really are forcing it.
@VoteSmart: Gamers are not businessmen. If you worry more about MS's record profits than the games you get to play you're on the wrong website I believe.
The reason I bought a PS2 all the those years ago was because of the exclusive software, Sony shouldn't be saying 'nothing is ever exclusive' when what seperates your console from the competition is the games.
@excel_excel: I agree, but you have to remember that games are not limited to third party franchises. I'm glad they actually did not try to get into MS's little game (in which they would eventually lose anyways), because really what's more important? Fresh IPs like Heavy Rain, Resistance, LBP, Uncharted, White Knight Chronicles and others? Or keeping 360 owners from playing FFXIII and Tekken 6? If you own a PS3 there are plenty of reasons to be happy with your purchase, even in just the game department.
@excel_excel: It's that Microsoft Pays developers to offset the fact that they are limiting their market. Sony "feels" that that is unscrupulous. And they're right, but it's also good business.
@stryker1800: I disagree there, I can definetly seeing it selling on 360 if it ever did. Just because somebody likes Halo doesn't mean that they won't like MGS4
Coming out with the PS3 and $499 and $599 (20GB and 60GB versions in 2006) were the key to their undoing. Without Blu-Ray they would have had an affordable platform.
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''We have some great exclusives still! Like FF13:versus and MGS4! Then again nothing is exclusive so don't worry about it. We will all have the same games so I guess just get the cheaper console... oh erm no I mean the more expensive one with the same games''
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People should use their brain before posting comments about Zelda,LBP and Halo.
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....I just really want it too :(
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My point was more that Microsoft and Nintendo have bonafide system-selling icons. There's no clear, identifiable, exclusive mascot character for PS.
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Except that the MGS series has appeared on multiple consoles and even MGSIV is likely to be ported to 360. If Snake was completely exclusive to Sony, I would agree with you, but he's just not synonymous with PS.
The jury is out on LBP. It's done well critically, but I'm not sure how much of a buzz there is with the general gaming public who doesn't read a million previews for months.
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Sony realise this and are heavily investing into 1st party development. I remember reading awhile back, that Sony has more development studio's than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.
Also I wonder if Microsofts $50 million cheque to Take 2 for GTA IV dlc exculsivity is going to pay-off? Are people going to care to buy the dlc nearly a year after the game has been released? The money given to Take 2 could have been used for new development on new IP's.
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Shows the douchebaggery of it all perfectly.
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Sony has far less experience bullshitting than MS does. Give them time and soon enough they'll also be pumping out gems like:
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time."
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
"We will never make a 32-bit operating system."
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Business>Morals
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@BlueToast: true, true
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ALso, I love the tired old cutscene complaints, kids. That crap never gets old. Oh noes cutscenes r teh devil!
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