Why would Sony or Nintendo sign timed exclusivity deals for ports of old games? Especially Sony, whom you know has not done this (unless you are talking about AAA remakes of old games like FFVII Remake & Rebirth)?
I just edited the post to explain better what I meant and fix some stuff.
Other than that, it is a fact that there are tons of cases of Sony, Nintendo and MS signing total or timed console exclusivity for titles, and that sometimes includes ports/remasters/collections of old games.
Why? To make money, they are companies. Even if some of them are old or niche titles, they are grains of sand that make the beach that is their catalog of (in many cases timed, or console) exclusives that differentiate their console from the other ones. Most exclusives aren't supersellers or AAA titles, but instead are smaller projects that serve certain niche.
Regarding deals, when Capcom signed the Street Fighter V deal, that deal also included console exclusivity generation of not only Street Fighter V, but for the other mainline entries of the series. It included the PS4 port (funded and outsourced by Sony) of Ultra Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter 6.
XBO was able to play the 360 version of USFIV via BC, but didn't get a dedicated port. Nintendo signed for Switch's (maybe Switch wasn't counted as the same generation as PS4, or they didn't care about another SF2 rehash) Ultra Street Fighter II, which basically is a Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix port with a few minor additions.
Sony also signed many (in some case timed) console exclusivity deals, or at least to block the Xbox version, for many games. In case of ARC System Works, many of them are fighting games: Guilty Gear Strive,Under Night In-Birth: Exe Late[cl-r], Under Night In-Birth II, Kill la Kill: if, Hunter x Hunter and. Sony also bought EVO and Lasengle (publisher of the fighting game Melty Blood Type Lumina).
With SNK they signed (in a few cases timed) console exclusivity, or at least to keep it outside Xbox for many of their PS4 titles: KOFXIV, SNK Heroines, KOF 2002UM, Samurai Shodown, plus a PS4 generation exclusive version of KOF98 Ultimate Match and KOF XIII. That deal pretty likely was for the generation, because it didn't extend to their current gen titles (KOFXV and Fatal Fury City of the Wolves), which also are releasing on Xbox.
And same goes with other fighting game devs/publishers for both new and old games. Pretty likely Sony wants to highlight PS as the reference platform for fighting games.
These deals don't only include exclusivity of games. Beyond fighting games, the deal that Jim Ryan signed for RE Village included to allign marketing with PS, blocking it on Xbox, blocking it to be on GP for over a year, to get exclusivity of potential bundles, betas/demos and console VR version (Village and RE4R so far) of the series for this generation.
A generation long deal as in the previous one they did with SF, maybe this time with a lower profile of deal because RE titles cost and sell way more and Capcom is now in a way better financial shape, so the deal must have been way more expensive than the SF one.
Again, small grains of sand from here and there to build their paradise beach that makes their console more appealing than their direct competitor, Xbox. And to slowly kill its market share until 3rd parties at some point decide isn't worth it to release their games there.
Yes, most likely it's as simple as Capcom not having the sales data to justify a B2P port for Xbox; they'll probably wait a year for MS to give them some Game Pass money and then put some or most (or all) of these games skipping Xbox into the service. But mentioning a timed exclusivity deal doesn't really do anything but feed the flames for Xbox fanatics to push that conspiracy theory, and pin it on SIE/Sony (despite the games also coming to Switch where they will likely sell more copies, heck some will sell more on Steam).
Some of the exclusivities signed by Sony are timed, others are permanent. Some of the deals are applied to a single title, some others include to all the games of a a series released across a period of time. We don't know which is the case of this one, but I'd bet permanent because of Sony's deal with Marvel.
Now I remember that in the Insomniac leak we also saw a Wolverine related document that mentioned that Sony had signed with Marvel exclusivity for X-Men games and characters usage in games until the end of 2035, including the exception: "The characters can still appear and be playable in multi-family Marvel games like Avengers or Ultimate Alliance".
Or who knows if Sony signed a deal directly with Capcom, we know for a fact that Capcom signed a deal with Sony for the SF series titles released in the past generation and for the RE series for this generation.
We also see above PS, Swith & PC getting Ace Attorney and MH Stories 1 & 2 late ports while Xbox not getting them. Having it for all the other versions, an Xbox port would be so cheap for them, with a few thousand copies sold it would be profitable.
So in this case of the Marvel collection I assume it isn't in Xbox because of Sony deals either with Capcom or with Marvel, I assume they scrapped the bottom of the barrel to see what they could get. Now that they have this new collection, pretty likely next year they'll put Marvel Vs Capcom 2 at EVO running on PS5.
But yes, PS is the best selling platform for Capcom and Xbox the worst one. So it wouldn't be rare that Capcom simply decided to stop releasing the low selling titles on Xbox as the Xbox market share keeps getting smaller and smaller.
The answer is way more obvious and simple and has nothing to do with MT framework bullshit excuse.
Capcom doesn’t see these games selling on Xbox
It is not just Capcom… others publisher are seeking the same and some are even regretting putting games there.
And Gamepass that was sold to publishers as the future just become a loss to everybody because MS doesn’t want to pay for games anymore and if a publisher wants to sell a game on Xbox they will realize nobody buys games there anymore.
The sword is hurting both sides.
Capcom normally releases their games multiplatform, but frequenlty signs deals with everyone.
Maybe in this case signed with Sony because of EVO and their X-Men exclusivity deal with Marvel. Or maybe since now Capcom is stronger they didn't want to make the mainline MH, RE or SF exclusive and scrapping the bottom the barrel Sony got what they could.
In case of MS, from time to time Capcom releases something on Game Pass. In fact not only with Capcom, MS's 3rd party deals since many years ago aren't focused on getting console exclusivity but instead to get from time to time cool day one GP titles.
As an example of this, this month Kunitsu-Gami has been released day one on Game Pass.
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