Titanfall to remain exclusive to Microsoft, PC
EA dashed any hopes for a PS4 version of Titanfall, stating during today's financial call that the game would remain exclusive to Microsoft consoles and PC for the duration of its life cycle.
Those hoping to get a taste of towering mechs on their PlayStation 4 will be very disappointed to hear that Titanfall will most likely not find its way to a Sony platform. EA has stated that the game will remain exclusive to Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC for the entirety of its life cycle.
"In the case of Titanfall, it's a brand new IP and it's exclusive only for the life of the title on Xbox One and Xbox 360 and PC," said EA CFO Blake Jorgensen during today's EA financial call (via Joystiq).
This statement contradicts an earlier statement from Respawn, who had previously expressed that a PS4 version was "definitely not out of the question." Respawn's Vince Zampella has weighed in on Twitter, adding that the studio will not release Titanfall on PS4, but will develop future games for the platform.
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EA dashed any hopes for a PS4 version of Titanfall, stating during today's financial call that the game would remain exclusive to Microsoft consoles and PC for the duration of its life cycle.-
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On Origin? I'd rather not. And it's a Source engine game, only available on Origin or 360 / XBox One. Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw couldn't have written more biting satire for this game's pre-launch.
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Oh but you are, if you liked the fiction you gotta play it, so much awesome stuff beyond just the grand finale mission
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It's really just the final 15 minutes that sucked, especially pre director's cut. Post DC it's not as bad. Otherwise ME3 visits all the places only talked about in the first two. Like the various Homeworld planets of every major character. Gameplay it's the best of the ME's IMO.
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Man, if it's your favorite just do it. I promise origin isn't that bad and won't interfere. I Havebt turned it on since. Me3 is great. Do it for yourself, for US. I beat it twice actually, it's amazing, you must play it.
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You aren't talking to a rational human being.
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What's the issue with Origin? I've used it for a few games and haven't really had any problems.
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Memories of early versions playing black and white (might not even be theirs) not representative of today.
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it seems to largely be up to how EA handles the DLC associated with the title
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Vince Zampella(Co-Founder of Respawn Entertainment) weighs in.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=706403
Sounds like he found out when everyone else did. Seems clear that if sequels do come they will hit PS4.-
Yeah that's surprising , thought this was a gears of war exclusive type deal
Good for ps4 gamers I guess. I'm still not sold personally on the gameplay-
I think it looks really cool, but I can imagine the novelties that separate it from COD could become a little old quite quickly.
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That's what I suspected. Apparently Microsoft recently threw EA additional cash to keep the game off PS4 forever. Apparently they feel they can't afford to lose this one. They're probably right, too.
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Dunno, Titanfall doesn't seem to be getting a lot of preorders.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/10/21/xbox-one-vs-ps4-top-pre-ordered-next-gen-video-games/
However it's a new IP and a lot of people don't know about it, so maybe once it's out there people will give it more attention. Honestly, out of both consoles launch titles, Titanfall is the one I'm looking forward to most... just gonna get it on PC.-
It's still too far out to preorder and people have games they want to buy and play this Holiday season.
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Yeah, I think MS and Sony both have kind of tried to let people think what they want about Titanfall and inFamous 3 being launch titles (which neither are, but keep showing up in promo stuff).
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How do exclusivity deals work, and is it usually beneficial for the developer? As a developer, you sign a contract saying you can only put out your game for one platform, and I assume they get compensated for that. So is the compensation a flat fee? A percentage of sales? I assume whatever they're getting has to be more than the revenue generated (minus the costs associated) with going multi-plafform, right?
Or is that way off base?
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The developer takes money from a publisher to make games. Publishers work deals with system owners for licensing and/or exclusivity. This carries over on to the Developer as it will affect development processes.
I'd imagine the Respawn guys worked all out on the XB1 and PC versions and were expecting to get resources for PS4 later, they might have had a small amount towards it but nothing significant since nothing was announced. -
There are any number of ways exclusivity deal are arranged. The most common is that Microsoft will promise some lofty amount of marketing dollars to support the title. This can be appealing for a new IP and/or a new studio. But, since this is EA there may be other larger items on the table.
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There would have to be more to it than marketing dollars or EA is insane.
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It's really hard to to say in this case. If they had a bonus based on sales not coming out on both platforms would hurt their ability to get that bonus. Seeing as how these guys were flush with cash I am going to assume they signed a good deal and their lawyers would have written in something to renegotiate the bonus if it is based on sales and EA does something to restrict its sales.
We don't know what the deal is and Respawn is not the typical indie studio so who knows. I guess I assume they had so much money of their own they wouldn't have taken a bad deal from EA to deal with the publishing end. EA I believe has rights to Repsawn's games for a certain number of years and I don't think they would have given that up unless the deal was pretty good. They may have even had competing offers from MS. I would assume there are also performance bonuses because IW was used to get the most extreme bonuses I have ever heard of in the game industry. But EA making an exclusive deal throws a monkey wrench into that that I hope Respawn's lawyers accounted for.
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Halo really suffered.
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Never heard of it. Was that some indie game or something?
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So I went to a microplay for the first time ever last week. It was pretty awesome. On that note someone in there was looking for couch coop games for their 360. The person working was like "I recommend Halo 4" and the customer was all "What is Halo?". The guy was like 30 years old, he would have been in his prime when Halo was out, where the hell was he hes never ever heard of it.
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Umm, actually Halo was on more than one console.
http://videogamesdaily.com/content/halo-2600-carts.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/jeffv/halo2600.html
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It's hard to say without knowing how much short term money MS paid EA.
I wonder what would have been the result of PS4 getting this as an exclusive?-
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I don't think so. Probably 1.5 years. Holiday 2015
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Not in the first year of a console launch. Let's assume they're going to follow the CoD model with this and release another one in a year. Now let's look at this from EA's eyes.
1. New IP = risk.
2. Expensive AAA game = RIsk
3. New Console cycle with lower number of potential sales = risk.
4. Get a bunch of money from MS up front for first year = safe
5. Sit back and see if first game is a success. If it is, plan multi console release for second game = safe
They're making all the right decisions with this. Everyone will get it eventually.
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Honestly they can keep it.
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oh yeah got my collectors edition for my xbox one
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Awwww, those poor babies, Maybe they'll get a port after a year or somin and feel the pain of dealing with p.o.s ports.
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