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[Cravis]

Whew glad it's not Xbox exclusive.

Was already preparing for the onslaught of Sony fanboys saying how the series sucked anyways and they had no intention of playing so it was no loss

 

[Mister Wolf]

Is this your first time dealing with timed exclusives? They always say this.

Unless MICROSOFT is publishing the game, it'll come to ps5.

No they don't. Just off the top of my head most recently FF16 didn't say it and neither did Kena Bridge Of Spirits from a small indie developer. Every timed exclusive of recent going back is stated outright as such.

 

[M1chl]

Is this your first time dealing with timed exclusives? They always say this.

Unless MICROSOFT is publishing the game, it'll come to ps5.

Maybe it will be MS?

STALKER 2 announcement was made this early to find a publisher

There's a reason why STALKER 2 was announced so early.

www.vg247.com

 

[THEAP99]

No they don't. Just of the top of my head most recently FF16 didn''t say it and neither did Kena Bridge Of Spirits from a small developer. Every timed exclusive of recent going back is stated outright as such.

Cuphead? Dude, unless it's published by microsoft you're crazy to think stalker, the medium and such won't come to ps5 lmao.

Console launch exclusives

 

[THEAP99]

Maybe it will be MS?

STALKER 2 announcement was made this early to find a publisher

There's a reason why STALKER 2 was announced so early.

www.vg247.com

If it is then I'll believe it's a pure exclusive. Until then, it's timed like cuphead and other timed games where developers didn't mention a release for another platform right away.

 

[Roni]

Most of Stalker's fanbase is on PC. GSC can't afford to miss out on all that potential money. Which is likely to be more than what Microsoft can offer in guaranteed money.

Considering how niche STALKER really is, I think they're pretty happy to take their chances and get a hold of some of the money now.

 

[GrayChild]

Was already preparing for the onslaught of Sony fanboys saying how the series sucked anyways and they had no intention of playing so it was no loss

That'd most probably be the case with Hellblade 2.

Between it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, The Medium, Half-Life: Alyx and MS Flight Sim (to name just a few), there's lots of port-begging happening... almost exclusively from people who spoke how they can't stand port-beggars when it comes to Sony's first party exclusives.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Cuphead? Dude, unless it's published by microsoft you're crazy to think stalker, the medium and such won't come to ps5 lmao.

Console launch exclusives

You named one game. A game that took two months shy of three years to come to playstation.

 

[Vasto]

It looks so good.

 

[Agent X]

Eh.. pretty typical for a dev of a timed exclusive to act like something is fully exclusive. Usually seems like their contract states that they can't mention they are working on another console version.

True. At the very least, they don't reveal what other console(s) they will eventually release the game on.

No they don't. Just off the top of my head most recently FF16 didn't say it and neither did Kena Bridge Of Spirits from a small indie developer. Every timed exclusive of recent going back is stated outright as such.

Not always. Sometimes they do immediately promote the game as a "timed exclusive", but other times they've kept it nebulous. This might be one of the latter situations.

I remember one of the recent Tomb Raider games (might have been Rise of the Tomb Raider) was promoted as "exclusive" to Xbox One for months, before they confirmed that it would also eventually come to PlayStation 4.

Another good example is the Cuphead situation, as THEAP99 mentioned above.

I would say the entirety of the Stalker fanbase is on PC, since, thankfully and praise jesus, it never came to a console. The entire series if fully PC, designed and made for mouse and keyboard and hardcore as fuck. Hopefully they'll keep this one the same, and just plaster some barelly functional controller support a day before release, but otherwise im hoping they keep the same depth and complexity in its gameplay and design that only mouse and keyboard permits. Making context sensitive actions, auto stuff, magnetism and 4 quickfeatures mapped to a dpad is my greatest fear

For what it's worth, most Microsoft and Sony consoles featuring USB ports allow users to connect a USB keyboard and USB mouse to play certain games.

 

[M1chl]

If it is then I'll believe it's a pure exclusive. Until then, it's timed like cuphead and other timed games where developers didn't mention a release for another platform right away.

I am not saying anything that they are publisher, just went for the info and this is what I saw, so maybe it's possible. Because not much publishers would put game on GamePass day 1. (however it's not GP for PC day one, so there is still doubt that MS is publishing, inside me). But damn I am glad that it's coming, who ever is going to be publisher.

 

[Deleted member 471617]

Timed Console Exclusive. Most likely for a full year from when it releases on Xbox/PC.

 

[Bernkastel]

Is this your first time dealing with timed exclusives? They always say this.

Unless MICROSOFT is publishing the game, it'll come to ps5.

They don't. Bright Memory Infinite dev made it pretty clear that he will start working on a PS5 version after XSX version is finished. These guys are actually doing the reverse of saying they won't be doing that when asked about the PS5 version. Another example is this guy, he simply does not want to work on another version.

A Real-Time Particle Physics based game for Xbox Series X and high end PC's by Grant Kot

www.neogaf.com

 

[IntentionalPun]

Most timed exclusives are stated as such. Its not typical at all.

And so was this game.

I'm talking about how a dev responds when someone asks about the competing console versions. It's common for them to not ever mention any version but what they have a paid timed exclusive deal on.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Not always. Sometimes they do immediately promote the game as a "timed exclusive", but other times they've kept it nebulous. This might be one of the latter situations.

I remember one of the recent Tomb Raider games (might have been Rise of the Tomb Raider) was promoted as "exclusive" to Xbox One for months, before they confirmed that it would also eventually come to PlayStation 4.

Rise was announced 6/9/2014

Gamescom 2014: Rise of the Tomb Raider Is a Timed Exclusive on Xbox - IGN

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer chatted about the exclusivity deal regarding Lara Croft's next adventure game, shedding new light on the situation.

www.ign.com

This article is dated 8/13/2014

Rise Of The Tomb Raider released 11/10/2015

That's a year and three months of knowing Tomb Raider was timed exclusive before its release date.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Likely a timed exclusive. Sony & Microsoft marketing spins want people to assume they won't be able to play certain titles elsewhere through FOMO.

I expect this to come to Steam & PS5 at some point, literally no reason not to especially for a 3rd party developer.

True, though Sony (surprisingly) has been pretty open about timed exclusives as of late. They have clearly highlighted all the games that are timed exclusives -- going as far as two years with Project Athia that doesn't even have a release date at this point or a final title.

 

[Gamezone]

Not gonna happen.

According to Brad Sams a while ago it was rumored to happen.

 

[FlyyGOD]

Is this your first time dealing with timed exclusives? They always say this.

Unless MICROSOFT is publishing the game, it'll come to ps5.

Thats not always true. I've seen console published games show up on other consoles.

 

[quest]

Microsoft should just do the right thing and release Gamepass on Steam. The player base is big enough to justify the cut, and it's been proven time and time again that Steam players don't care about Gamepass trough the Microsoft launcher.

Yes they totally can pay 23 studios and 3rd parties for games on 7 dollars a month. Yes Microsoft should become a charity where they give money away to lord gaben. Let's see game pass is probably breaking even now but they should take a 30% loss for lord gaben's fans. Would lord gaben fans pay 15 a month to make up for the cut I don't think so.

 

[Agent X]

Rise was announced 6/9/2014

Gamescom 2014: Rise of the Tomb Raider Is a Timed Exclusive on Xbox - IGN

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer chatted about the exclusivity deal regarding Lara Croft's next adventure game, shedding new light on the situation.

www.ign.com

This article is dated 8/13/2014

Rise Of The Tomb Raider released 11/10/2015

That's a year and three months of knowing Tomb Raider was timed exclusive before its release date.

The initial announcement a day earlier (August 12, 2014) promoted Rise of the Tomb Raider simply as "exclusive", with no explicit mention of the "timed" aspect.

Gamescom 2014: Rise of the Tomb Raider Is Xbox One Exclusive - IGN

Lara Croft's next big adventure is only coming to Xbox.

www.ign.com

The Next Tomb Raider Is A Timed Xbox Exclusive [UPDATE]

UPDATE (8/13): Turns out Microsoft was just being misleading—Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive. It'll come to other platforms later.

kotaku.com

This was only clarified the next day, after a large amount of community outrage. (Not "months later", as I originally thought...but with the amount of heated discussion, it sure felt like it.) I believe this was the thread here about this, which was later updated when "timed" exclusivity was stated.

Rise of the Tomb Raider timed Xbox exclusive for Holiday 2015 (No PS/PC, SE publish)

Update: Asked to clarify the specific terms of the Rise of the Tomb Raider deal, Spencer wouldn't be budged on the "Holiday 2015" line, despite developer Crystal Dynamics suggesting its game won't be coming to PC and PS4. Neither would the exec comment on the wording, "exclusively on Xbox"...

www.neogaf.com

Read the first few pages, where many users were questioning whether it would be timed or fully exclusive.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Maybe I'll download it for free then, if they are lucky


Thanks uncle Phil

 

[Unknown?]

How anti-consumer. I thought Phil said lacking exclusives didn't hurt Xbox and that they were done with this kind of practice?

 

[M1chl]

The wave of coping here

 

[NonPhixion]

Phil hates timed exclusives, he'd never make such a deal.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Just bring A-Life system back

 

[Umbral]

If this is an actual exclusive and not just timed, congratulations to Microsoft for having a game I want but can't get. I'm still not buying an Xbox.

 

[Derktron]

Will there be a steam release, or are we forced to use gamepass?

People are we still on this? Lol

 

[HarryKS]

Temporary.

 

[Derktron]

Whew glad it's not Xbox exclusive.

Was already preparing for the onslaught of Sony fanboys saying how the series sucked anyways and they had no intention of playing so it was no loss

But if it was Playstation, there would be a full day celebration and articles explaining why this is good for Playstation gamers and how it's good for gaming and how Sony is a godsend for gaming and how Sony exclusivity is better than Microsoft and Nintendo and blah blah.

 

[mortal]

The wave of coping here

How is it coping?

This is more than likely coming to other platforms that aren't Microsoft owned at a later date despite whatever that headline claims.
Unless I've missed somewhere that Microsoft helped to fund the development of the game. Hell even then that isn't garuntee anymore as there are 1st party Sony titles on PC now.

 

[Derktron]

Temporary.

Yep, and it's shame. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo still get 3rd-party exclusivity but "sips tea".

 

[Derktron]

Phil hates timed exclusives, he'd never make such a deal.

Yet 15% of their games for this year is timed

 

[HarryKS]

Yep, and it's shame. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo still get 3rd-party exclusivity but "sips tea".

I was talking about the OP. He wrote 'temporal' instead of 'temporary'.

 

[Derktron]

I was talking about the OP. He wrote 'temporal' instead of 'temporary'.

I know but still

 

[TintoConCasera]

Temporary.

English is not my main language... And it shows.

Thanks man, will change that now.

 

[junguler]

i hate third party exclusives, taking a game hostage is not ok no matter who does it. if you really want an exclusive either order one and fund the whole project or buy the company that's making it and release the promised games multi_platform and then make new games exclusive.

 

[HarryKS]

English is not my main language... And it shows.

Thanks man, will change that now.

I don't mention it as a reproach. Just something I noticed. Cool beans.

 

[driqe]

How anti-consumer. I thought Phil said lacking exclusives didn't hurt Xbox and that they were done with this kind of practice?

xbox doesnt have exclusives. All their games are on pc.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Whew glad it's not Xbox exclusive.

Was already preparing for the onslaught of Sony fanboys saying how the series sucked anyways and they had no intention of playing so it was no loss

The series sucked and I have no intention of ever playing it.

 

[Bergoglio]

Is this your first time dealing with timed exclusives? They always say this.

Unless MICROSOFT is publishing the game, it'll come to ps5.

Like Final Fantasy 7, XVI e Project Athia, all coming to xbox in the next years.

 

[THEAP99]

Like Final Fantasy 7, XVI e Project Athia, all coming to xbox in the next years.

Correct

 

[scalman]

Yes as i would expect it will be on pc. As original stalker was.

 

[Gamezone]

Yes they totally can pay 23 studios and 3rd parties for games on 7 dollars a month. Yes Microsoft should become a charity where they give money away to lord gaben. Let's see game pass is probably breaking even now but they should take a 30% loss for lord gaben's fans. Would lord gaben fans pay 15 a month to make up for the cut I don't think so.

I hear you, but the service could get millions of more subscribers as well.

 

[JackMcGunns]

 

[Edgelord79]

Phil hates timed exclusives, he'd never make such a deal.

How is Phil doing?

Last I heard, he was having trouble with his car.

 

[kyussman]

The confusion around all these timed exclusive annoucements is always annoying as fuck.....luckily thanks to Microsoft actually starting to invest in Xbox seriously I'll be owning both consoles this gen and I won't have to give it much thought.

 

[Bernkastel]

.

 

[Sentenza]

More than anything, i want to know if STALKER 2 will be a vaporware or not.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

More than anything, i want to know if STALKER 2 will be a vaporware or not.

That's Microsoft exclusive vaporware, to you!

 

[Kupfer]

Although the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is one of my favorites, I'll have to pass then. I don't have much hope that the game can hold a candle to its predecessors anyway, since games today are built according to success formulas rather than developer visions.