Prince Vultan
Banned
I guess when you get down to it, yes, this thread is about Titanfall. It's irritating to me that Sony allowed Microsoft to swoop in and snatch up the biggest new IP for next gen. I'd rather not buy an XB1, but Titanfall will probably end up being the reason I do.
For the past few years I'd been wondering what Respawn was working on. I just knew whatever it was, it was going to be a big deal. So it's irritating to me on some level that Sony got outsmarted and 1up'd so badly on this. I would love to know if Sony even had talks with EA/Respawn, because if they didn't they're idiots.
If only Sony could have gotten the exact same deal instead of Microsoft, this generation might truly be over before it even started.
That EA deal probably cost MS a nine figure sum at least to sign. I'd much rather Sony spend that amount of money on developing another shit load of first party titles and/or expanding their first party studio stable than wasting it on stalling the release of a new IP that has no guarantees of massive success on a single rival platform.
Titanfall will land on PS4 at some point anyway after all, and when it does, Sony won't have had to spend hundreds of millions for it.