Microsoft Buying Timed Exclusives Instead Of Proper Exclusives
With the plethora of announcements during the Microsoft Conference, something that kept on coming up was that the game’s DLC would be a timed exclusive on the Xbox 360.
Games like Black Ops 2, Tomb Raider and South Park: The Stick of Truth will all have DLC that will be a timed exclusive on the Xbox 360 platform. Getting these exclusives would obviously cost money and while there is no actually info on the amount it costs it must be a lot to stop developers from putting their DLC on other platforms and potentially making more money.
During the E3 conference no real AAA exclusives were revealed except for HALO 4 which is obvious, what im trying to say is that I believe that Microsoft could have easily put money into getting more exclusives that were AAA and were exciting.
This is all coming from an Xbox 360 owner who is actually going to buy a PS3 just because of all of the exclusives that are and aren’t revealed.
Tell me what you think in the comments, I want to know your opinions.
I think MS feels that it is a better use of cash to buy timed exclusive content, then it is to invest heavily into an exclusive that ends up flopping and getting poor sales, and costs them a fortune.
Exclusive content works on casuals, if your a casual, and you have no silly allegiances to Sony, then your going to buy multiplats on 360, and not PS3, and your going to get a 360 instead of a PS3, if you know 360 always gets content first, on a high percentage of games.
Sony supposedly has a lot of exclusives, but they dont sell very well in most cases, this means, casuals arent buying consoles for exclusives alone, thus dominating in the big multiplatform games, is the financially more sound approach.
When I bought my 360, I bought it because of price as it was quite a bit cheaper than the PS3 at the time. I still think that buying one console over another because of exclusive games is weird – I don’t lose any sleep over never having played Uncharted or God of War, I have my hands full of great games as it is.