@dynamitecop said:
Be gone.
While Microsoft was aggressive at approaching Respawn for Titanfall early on, Sony was pushing them away when they approached. The message Sony sent to Respawn was that they were not ready to talk about it, although they did have ideas, such as bringing the game to the Vita. There was a point where they had told Sony that the situation would be ‘locked in behind the scenes’, but Sony once again did not respond.
At a certain point, Respawn (Zampella and West at this point) explained to EA’s John Riccitiello that they had run out of funding. They had just enough staff to bring the game to Xbox One and PC, and even then they had to delay the game and cut single player. EA did the work of shuffling around for funding, and finally found it in Microsoft. As a result, Titanfall became a Microsoft exclusive.
It needs to be emphasized here that at the final hour, it was Microsoft that saved the project. We also know that since then, EA and Respawn plan to open up future Titanfall games to more platforms. If Microsoft had not stepped up to the plate, though, the game would have not even been made.
Oh please that was a load of horse shit and damage control Respawn signed with EA before Titanfall was even unveil.
The true about why the game ended on xbox one and PC is already known.
In the case of Titanfall, Electronic Arts thought that the game should be exclusive to the Xbox consoles (and PC) based on their forecasts of where they thought the Xbox One would be come March.
Gamezone managed to get in a word with EA's Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen, who stated that...
"I think you should assume that we made that decision when it was back a few years ago when we decided to go exclusive,"
"We had some forecast at that time from where we thought both Xbox and PlayStation would be and that's what we based our decision on. I think we're still feeling very comfortable with that,"
Jorgensen is talking about how the Xbox 360 appeared to have more momentum than the PS3 throughout the seventh gen, and it seemed like the Xbox One would follow suit. He's also talking about EA's forecast that put cumulative sales at 10 million between the Xbox One and PS4 sales... a measure that they think can be reached by March of this year.
The thing is, EA was heavily in bed with Microsoft for the Xbox One... not just cuddling and spooning, but they were getting it on thick like Kim Kardashian and Ray-J in that nasty sex tape... just the way EA likes it.
It was EA who first announced cancellation of the Online Pass program, after they announced exclusive deals with Microsoft during the Xbox One's May 21st reveal. The reason for the cancellation of the Online Pass was because – at the time, before all the Fast & Furious 180s – Microsoft had a used game fee in place for publishers to utilize.
In theory, this would have given Electronic Arts some massive leverage in terms of revenue from a game like Titanfall because any copy being put back into the wild would still net EA a small chunk of change from the used game fee(s). Designing the game around that kind of culture for the Xbox One probably looked like a gold mine for EA and Titanfall would have been the testbed for mining the gold.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Titanfall-Was-Exclusive-Xbox-Because-EA-Thought-Xbox-One-Would-Dominate-61946.html
MS and EA were in bed that is what happen,it wasn't only for titanfall they would do other deals that would have benefit EA greatly,the decision to have Titanfall on xbox one was based on the fact that EA believe that MS would dominate sony this gen based on the performance of the PS3,they thought MS would have sold more units which is why MS was able to money hat EA and convince it about it,fact is if the game would have being on PS4 as well the PS4 version would have probably outsold the xbox one version without much problem but EA sold out.
Is the same reason why now you see Battlefield deal for the xbox while sony has COD.
This is 2+ years old news by now B4X educate yourself,no one believe that shit about sony saying no,fact is before Titanfall was even on development EA made a deal with respawn as simple as that,and MS made a deal with EA.
Much like Sony got content for Destiny before MS did even that the game was done by Bungie,activision was in charge and they close a deal with sony.
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