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Originally Posted by Rathji
I am amazed at the number of people who think the things that MS has (idiotically, I admit) done to restrict their customers, will actually impact sales more than a small amount.
Short term it might, but long term the reality is that exclusive titles sell consoles.
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Microsoft is taking a big hit here and really the big winners are the developers and publishers that lose significant revenues due to used game sales and piracy. One has to think that these developers will be paying Microsoft back with exclusives which is why Microsoft has been pretty silent throughtout this controversy. Willing to ride this out and count on their exclusives for winning long term. Sony conversley flipped developers/publishers the bird by maintaining the status quo that has been pushing developers out of business. You can already see at launch Microsoft has more exclusives and one wonders if this will be a constant trend throughout the console life cycles or at least until Sony inevitably climbs aboard as adopts the same DRM strategy.