Rightisright
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One thing I don't understand is why MS walked back from first party exclusives towards the end of the 360 and through the Xbone.
To me, one of the big leg ups for MS that helped them do so well with the 360 was the exclusives, which alot worked out to be timed, had.
Games like BioShock, Dead Rising, Mass Effect, Alan Wake, Left for Dead, Call of Duty 2, Metro 2033, Call of Juarez, Prey etc.
This is what brought alot of people to the console. The Games. The type of games that 360 had. The shooter box as it was called.
But then something changed. They let Bungle walk away, closed Lionhead amongst others, didnt buy closely linked studios like Bioware. Imagine if MS bought Bioware FFS.
To top it off, they didnt even money hat anymore for timed exclusives.
What did they think would sell the console? Did they think Kinect games would give them the exclusive games? Did they think people didn't care about games being exclusive and would just buy a console for third party games?
Now obviously this has been identified as a big mistake ans MS has reconciled alot of it, but I dont understand what the thought pattern was.
I mean Bungie was their biggest name and best developers, and they gave them away for nothing? Was there photos of someone being used as leverage?
It would be like Sony saying to Naughty Dog that they can walk away and do games for Xbox as well.
So does anyone know of any interviews or stories about what happened during this period?
I actually would like to know. And I'm not shitting on MS, as that period has come and gone.
To me, one of the big leg ups for MS that helped them do so well with the 360 was the exclusives, which alot worked out to be timed, had.
Games like BioShock, Dead Rising, Mass Effect, Alan Wake, Left for Dead, Call of Duty 2, Metro 2033, Call of Juarez, Prey etc.
This is what brought alot of people to the console. The Games. The type of games that 360 had. The shooter box as it was called.
But then something changed. They let Bungle walk away, closed Lionhead amongst others, didnt buy closely linked studios like Bioware. Imagine if MS bought Bioware FFS.
To top it off, they didnt even money hat anymore for timed exclusives.
What did they think would sell the console? Did they think Kinect games would give them the exclusive games? Did they think people didn't care about games being exclusive and would just buy a console for third party games?
Now obviously this has been identified as a big mistake ans MS has reconciled alot of it, but I dont understand what the thought pattern was.
I mean Bungie was their biggest name and best developers, and they gave them away for nothing? Was there photos of someone being used as leverage?
It would be like Sony saying to Naughty Dog that they can walk away and do games for Xbox as well.
So does anyone know of any interviews or stories about what happened during this period?
I actually would like to know. And I'm not shitting on MS, as that period has come and gone.