thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Thanks for the correction, it's appreciated. I'll put this one on my 'whoops' board for the week :/They can’t make deals for MLB The Show, they’re the developer but MLB is the publisher on Xbox and the IP owner. MLB holds the rights to any negotiations with Xbox and while Sony will get a portion of the GP money, they likely weren’t in a position to veto the deal without having the rights to the IP revoked.
There is nothing reactionary here, this is standard legal documentation in every single exclusive marketing agreement in every company on the planet.
Here’s the parity part:
The forcing parity part, if true, well that's pretty shitty tbh. Seems Sony and Microsoft have been particularly fond of this type of practice, going by their histories.
This kind of makes you wonder if similar forced parity has gone on with some other titles like Control. I doubt it, after all there was no co-marketing deal between them and Sony IIRC but I'm not 100% sure if co-marketing deals are a pre-requisite to drawing up forced parity. Simply something like marketshare volume advantage could probably be leveraged in such a scenario I'd imagine.
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