Comments on: Microsoft is Paying to Exclude Rivals http://techrights.org/2010/05/25/xbox-lock-in/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Jose_X http://techrights.org/2010/05/25/xbox-lock-in/comment-page-1/#comment-90288 Wed, 26 May 2010 02:47:41 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=32249#comment-90288 I’m not familiar with the game dev scene, but I always felt the PS3 came with more potential and companies would need more time to exploit it (besides that the XBox came out first and perhaps the API would be more familiar). It would be easy money for companies to focus initially on the XBox. .. Since I don’t follow this stuff much at all, I really don’t know.

]]> By: Will http://techrights.org/2010/05/25/xbox-lock-in/comment-page-1/#comment-90286 Tue, 25 May 2010 13:59:51 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=32249#comment-90286 And let’s not forget how the GTA 4 DLC ended. The “Xbox exclusive” DLC wound up being released for the PS3 a few years later. The same story has happened with many “Xbox exclusive” games, sometimes with the later PS3 release receiving additional content:

Bioshock
Fallout 3 DLC
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
Star Ocean 4
Tales of Vesperia (in Japan, at least)
Eternal Sonata
Braid

just to name a few.

These days, the term “Xbox exclusive” means “timed exclusive” more often than not. I won’t make a prediction here, but I won’t be surprised at all if we see the Mass Effect trilogy come to the PS3 eventually.

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