Barkley's Justice
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Timed exclusive is certainly plausible for GTA 5.
Less so for COD, I believe, however.
Less so for COD, I believe, however.
If any would do it, I think Microsoft would be stupid enough to.
Priorities, priorities.but it would give Microsoft an important bragging right...
So incredibly dumb, it's mind boggling. It sounds like one of the playground arguments I'd have when I was 13 years old, even dumber than the stupid "Microsoft's going to buy Capcom" rumours that we got at the start of this gen.
Why the fuck would Microsoft bother with this in the first place? They'd lose an absolute shitload of money buying the exclusive(s) at a time when they're not in a particularly comfortable position. They'd hurt their reputation enormously, as it'd be a completely obvious power grab. If it were successful, they'd almost certainly be under intense scrutiny (from the EU at least, the US would probably shrug it off after a couple of "donations"). And all of that for what? To take over an incredibly volatile industry that they've lost more money in than earned?
I don't even have to take into account Activision or Take 2's position. It's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. It's completely ludicrous. It's sheer idiocy. Well done Gamasutra.
Might as well be.I don't get this thread. Is this a troll thread?
Microsoft paid 50 million just for timed exclusive DLC.
I don't think they're going to open up their checkbook for permanent total platform exclusivity.
Is GTA even a system seller?
I don't play GTA or CoD. One system having exclusiveness for those titles won't change my perspective. I don't see how it would "kill" Sony either.
MS would have been better off just starting a new open-world IP at that price. I know that's not the total cost of a game of that size, but MS would have seen better return on investment that way.
If it were successful, they'd almost certainly be under intense scrutiny (from the EU at least, the US would probably shrug it off after a couple of "donations").
HahahaIt looks like an asteroid can easily make the Earth a non-factor.
And if that happens, I don't know how the Earth could recover.
OP is delusional.
MS is fading on all fronts so yeah....
The $50M thing was never really cleared up. TakeTwo called it an interest free loan on GTA4's performance, meaning the first $50M GTA4 made on 360, should have gone to Microsoft, a lot of people think it was purely a moneyhat, but we don't really know.
I hope Durango gets the next version of RRoD for the LULZ then.
Are you a child?
(Keep in mind, those Destiny court documents that came out during Activision's legal fight with Jason West and Vince Zampella indicate that Destiny will be exclusive to the system as well, so having GTA in the fold as well would be a killer one-two punch.)
So incredibly dumb, it's mind boggling. It sounds like one of the playground arguments I'd have when I was 13 years old, even dumber than the stupid "Microsoft's going to buy Capcom" rumours that we got at the start of this gen.
Why the fuck would Microsoft bother with this in the first place? They'd lose an absolute shitload of money buying the exclusive(s) at a time when they're not in a particularly comfortable position. They'd hurt their reputation enormously, as it'd be a completely obvious power grab. If it were successful, they'd almost certainly be under intense scrutiny (from the EU at least, the US would probably shrug it off after a couple of "donations"). And all of that for what? To take over an incredibly volatile industry that they've lost more money in than earned?
I don't even have to take into account Activision or Take 2's position. It's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. It's completely ludicrous. It's sheer idiocy. Well done Gamasutra.