Wednesday, May 13, 2009

the importance of first-party game exclusivity

With Microsoft's announcement last week that it plans to purchase game developer BigPark and add its resources to Microsoft Game Studios, the Xbox360 manufacturer may have new opportunities to score big with Microsoft-exclusive titles. Most gamers these days can recognize the difference between a quality game title with care and effort put into its development and a crappy piece of third-party shovelware that won't sell a single copy. For this reason, there is a tough conflict between making financial ends meet (movie-licensed games released on cross-platform, for example) and publishing good games designed for specific platforms that will really make an impact on the gaming industry. Hopefully with this new acquisition we'll see some interesting new 360 exclusives coming out in the future.

Why first-party video games matter

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