Like I said, man, MS is very measured in their marketing. If it was exclusive, we’d all know already. They’re just trying not to panic the herd.
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The more time passes without an explicit confirmation of this game's exclusivity, the more I'm convinced that it's coming out on Playstation.
It increasingly feels more and more like Microsoft gave itself the marketing contract for the multi-plat game they're developing.
It increasingly feels more and more like Microsoft gave itself the marketing contract for the multi-plat game they're developing.
Marketing may have been as far as Disney was willing to go toward exclusivity with Xbox Series being so far behind PlayStation.
Nah that would decimate sales as badly as full exclusive would.
Also they would have said it's exclusive if it's that.
We shall see. Companies don't care about decimation of sales when that bag for timed exclusivity is fat and paid thts what the bag is for.
What makes the situation weird is that it's being developed by a Microsoft owned studio. Either the contract was made before MS bought Bethesda or MS announced the game far too early before the terms of the contract were even completely fleshed out just to look impressive at the game awards.
There are stages to some licensing deals for software, where you agree to the assignment of the license as the first step and collaboratively work out exactly what the project is and other terms after you’ve agreed in principle to the license and know what is being made. That delay would have made it clear that MS won’t be willing to pay enough to offset lost sales and that Xbox isn’t going to catch up to PlayStation.
There’s also the fact that the game could miss the drop-dead date that MS have given Xbox if development hits any snags.
Square giving Rise of the Tomb Raider as a timed exclusive to the Xbox One led to the decimation of interest in the franchise and greatly diminished its future sales.
Very true. Titanfall being exclusive to Xbox One also hurt the sequels potential and now they make Apex...
Crytek also had a few deals with Xbox and just fell apart afterwards. Yet many big developers have not learned!
You seem to have forgotten “It is a deal with a duration, but it isn’t a timed exclusive”
That's not everything: making your game xbox ecosystem exclusive is killing it before it's born.
All of these clowns are just repeating each other but none of them really know.
The only source I trust:
There is a thing called a contract that defines the conditions of a deal between companies.
Disney would sue Sony's ass off if they tried to pull something like that with a valid contract in place, which there is.