Losing exclusives is never good. Acid08But it is GOING to happen until Sony or MS starts buying 3rd parties, or paying them off. There is too much money to be lost by being single-platform. The PS1 had a lot of exclusives because they outsold the N64 by a landslide and the development cost on a cartridge was prohibitive for them. The PS2 had a lot of exclusives because they outsold the Xbox by about four gazillion to one so it was easy for developers to ignore the Xbox market. The potential profits were too small to justify the costs involved with porting a game over. Now BOTH systems are selling incredibly well. It's impossible to say which is selling better. The 360 has more units, but they started a year earlier. The PS3 has fewer units out, but they are selling FASTER than the 360 did at this stage of its life. Imagine YOU are a developer. Could you afford to ignore either of these markets? No freaking way. You won't see MS or Sony paying for many exclusives either. No game is worth the price that developers would require for them to afford to ignore one market or the other.
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