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Tanthalas posted...

That would be all fine and dandy if gamers were getting more games out of this. They arent, in fact a sizable portion of them are getting less, because two big third-party developers that made multi-platform titles now belong to MS.

Youre comparing apples to oranges.

Sony owns the Bloodborne IP. It didnt pay for exclusivity, it approached From Software to have them help develop it.

As for FFVIIR and FFXVI theres nothing stopping SE from releasing it on XBox. In fact, the director of FFXVI said they approached several companies to make a deal with FFXVI (which I think its safe to assume included MS) and they just went with the better deal.

This is a statement Microsoft made to the CMA:
In addition to having outright exclusive content, Sony has also entered into arrangements with third-party publishers which require the exclusion of Xbox from the set of platforms these publishers can distribute their games on. Some prominent examples of these agreements include Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix), Bloodborne (From Software), the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix) and the recently announced Silent Hill 2 remastered (Bloober team).

And a bullet point:

• Sony also has a portfolio of high-quality exclusive third-party content including Final Fantasy 16, Bloodborne, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Street Fighter V, Sifu and the Silent Hill 2 remake.

Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/637cec9dd3bf7f5a0b33f881/MICROSOFT_S_RESPONSE.pdf

So that is an official statement from Microsoft based on their investigations. As far as I know, SE and Sony has not denied. In fact, Sony has done their best to not be forthcoming with their exclusivity deals.

Not to mention that Sonys plans to make Starfield a Playstation exclusive is apparently why Microsoft bought Bethesda.

When we acquired ZeniMax one of the impetus for that is that Sony had done a deal for Deathloop and Ghostwire... to pay Bethesda to not ship those games on Xbox, said Spencer. So the discussion about Starfield when we heard that Starfield was potentially also going to end up skipping Xbox, we cant be in a position as a third-place console where we fall further behind on our content ownership so weve had to secure content to remain viable in the business. -Phil Spencer in court.

I actually don't like exclusives btw. I would love to just have one console to play everything on and I disliked Microsoft when they made these kind of deals in the previous generations. It seems, to me, that Sony has been way worse in later years, where Sonys exclusivity deals, mainly in Japan, has been just as bad as what Microsoft is doing now. Maybe it's because it's very few games from ABK I actually care about, though...