Sony is not “gobbling up third-party exclusives, it’s buying them - MS

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The PlayStation 4 impressive sales numbers don’t mean Sony is getting exclusive third-party content easily, according to Microsoft’s Phil Spencer.

Sony has been expanding relations with third-party publishers left and right, leading to co-marketing promotions, exclusive in-game content, and other benefits to PlayStation 4 owners. This has led some to believe that third-parties are the ones chasing Sony for exclusives, given their market share.

Not the case, according to head of Xbox Phil Spencer. “So, they [Sony] don’t ‘gobble’ the deals up. They buy them,” Spencer told Gamespot in an answer to whether or not it’s harder for Xbox to get third-party content.

“You know, I read the same things you do, and I know some people think it’s somehow less expensive to sign third-party exclusives if you have a bigger market-share. I can tell you, it has nothing to do with market share.”

Spencer added that making deals with third-parties mean different things to different publishers, as they are the ones that get to determine the market value of their games.

He also reiterated earlier comments that Microsoft is investing more and focusing more on first-party IPs, new or otherwise. Which, as he puts it, is “creatively more difficult” than signing deals.

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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/06/sony-is-not-gobbling-up-third-party-exclusives-its-buying-them-says-phil-spencer/

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StonerzardPosted:

TURB0
_Skittle IMO Microsoft have a huge advantage over Sony just due to the backwards compatibility.


Exactly and i think someone at PS said that PS4 will not be able to do it.


But PlayStation is getting PS Now, and imo that's better than backward compatibility.

SpeedomPosted:

_Skittle IMO Microsoft have a huge advantage over Sony just due to the backwards compatibility.


Exactly and i think someone at PS said that PS4 will not be able to do it.

SkittlePosted:

IMO Microsoft have a huge advantage over Sony just due to the backwards compatibility.

MubbPosted:

Mickers All they are trying to do is compete with the new backwards compatibility bomb shell microsoft dropped.


Correct. They'll certainly struggle, though.
That was a great drop for Microsoft.

VoroPosted:

Well in my eyes, it seems like Microsoft are the ones taking the steps forward while Sony is just picking up scraps, example- CoD. CoD was at its prime on Xbox. Now all CoD is, is futuristic BS.

HovaPosted:

Sony and Microsoft are both excellent companies. I do not see how there will be any shortage of third party companies who are independent of either Sony or Microsoft.

Dr_ArkansasPosted:

HTTK Sucks dlc wont be first on xbox anymore


Yeah for Call of Duty which is a dead game.

RipPosted:

Haha I find it so funny they say that they do the same thing.

HTTKPosted:

Sucks dlc wont be first on xbox anymore

rghmodzPosted:

gtapro151 and ??? im a xbox user but they paid cod for years now there downing sony for it? cmon.


Exactly. MS and xbox fanboys hating now because they aren't getting as many.


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