Sony won't buy exclusive games [News]

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » July 4th, 2007, 11:00

Sony won't buy exclusive games [News]
Sony says it won't buy exclusive games for the PS3, but will instead earn exclusive games on the merit of its hardware.

Author: Joe Martin
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Post by **FatherJack** » July 4th, 2007, 12:21

So rather than paying game studios to sign exclusivity agreements which actually hurt the studio immensely as it cuts their potential market massively to owners of the worst-selling system, they expect said studios to come begging?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 4th, 2007, 12:35

FatherJack wrote:they expect said studios to come begging?

Yes, yes they do.

And I hope it hurts them.

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » July 4th, 2007, 15:14

My Uni Course used to teach PS2 code as the back bone of the console programming, now they are not sure if they should go with Xbox 360 (seeing as its practically the same as windows, i.e. mostly c++) or PS3 as wii doesn't give out free dev packages to uni's yet. So I may go begging them for a job down the line.

Post by **HereComesPete** » July 4th, 2007, 16:12

... merit of its hardware....

They need to sell some of the fucking things first, and stop charging a fucking wallet burning amount. Also like FJ said, which studio would harm its profit margin on purpose? Who would spent time and effort on a game just to watch it curtailed to one platform, thus losing significant numbers of players and revenue. The only games that get away with this are already so big, that they transcend the platform, resident evil, halo, quake, doom etc, but the studios that make these are in the position to dictate terms, so sony fucks up there are as well!

Post by **deject** » July 4th, 2007, 16:34

lol ps trippa