[QUOTE="Xalaten"]Oh c'mon. You make it sound like Microsoft did all this because they are benevolent. They did it for MONEY.
heretrix
I hate to break this to you but all businesses are in it for the money. What's next? Are you going to tell me that we need oxygen to breathe? God, I hope not. I don't know how people are going to take that.
Epic doesn't need Microsoft, but why would you want to screw one of the largest corporations in the world when you don't need to?
It's all business. How would Epic strain their relationship with MS if they decide to do what's best for their company and go multiplat. There is no loyalty within companies, yes workign relationships, but not loyalty. You can see that with Square Enix, who jumped at the opportunity to go multiplat, even though they were only PS exclusive with the majority of their titles. PS didn't want to pony up the money, so we go multiplat. No harm between them, no foul. They are still working with SE. Look at Namco with Tekken. Tekken has never really appeared on any system other than the PS. Sony made the game a household name, but they jumped ship! Same with Eidos and Tomb Raider, Capcom and Resident Evil, etc. List goes on and on.
MS will have to pay to keep it exclusive, and they will prob pay. From a financial stand point, this doens't make sense in the short run. But in the long run it does, since it creates even more loyalty to the current system and future systems by MS. The next gen xbox can come out with some other iteration of gears and that will be that gen's system seller. Many bought PS3 for such 3rd party exclusives as MGS4, which was a system seller. Many bought it for other system sellers such as Final Fantasy, GTA4, Tekken, which were slated to be ps3 exclusives. While 3rd party exclusives are becoming extinct, MS and Sony have to be wise what games to pay for exclusivity. I guarantee that had FFXIII and GtaIV remain exclusive, PS3 would have moved even more units than it already had.
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