Pach-Attack: Is Titanfall's Exclusivity Good for EA?

Michael Pachter looks into Microsoft’s profit deal with one of 2014's biggest games.

[majiebeast]

They got a shit ton of money for it. Microsoft is desperate at this point which makes em pay a lot to keep a game like this exclusive. Its not good for Respawn cause they only get royalty for copies sold.

[NeXXXuS]

I don't know why they keep putting "exclusive." It's going to PC as well.

[Eonjay]

Yeah, EA placed its bet on the idea that Xbox One would outsell the PS4. It looks like a bad bet. Still Microsoft will soften the blow by paying EA. Its still a loss of profit though. That can't be helped.

[the worst]

pc dont count. lolol

[UltimateMaster]

20 or 30 Million is Very low.
If you were to count in PS3 and PS4, you wouldn't sell exclusivity anywhere under 500 million to 1 billion.
If you were to get 5 Million x60$, you'd get 300 million. So yeah, you don't sell out exclusivity @ 30 Million and nothing under 500 million.

If EA sold out at 25 Million, they're cheap whores who got screwed over with very little in return.

[DigitallyAfflicted]

@majiebeast

you are 100% right its all business. more $$$

[come_bom]

Microsoft paid a lot of money for Titanfall's console exclusive and they also paid a lot of money to Epic Games for the Gears of War exclusive.

... just like Sony pay for 3rd party exclusives on their systems.

I really don't see all the fuss about 3rd party exclusives on consoles. The publisher of the game gets a lot of money with no risk... even if the game is not a success.

[nukeitall]

The fuzz is that Titanfalls is on Xbox One and not PS4. On top of that, Titanfalls is looking to be a killer game and console mover.

I can't wait for March 2014!

[iiwii]

What I wonder is if it would have also been coming to PS3 since they were doing a 360 version... If so, that exclusivity cost MS even more $$ to not bring it to another 80 million users.

[ricochetmg]

Since it is on 360 it will not convince anyone who has a 360 to upgrade.

[Bolts-N-Rays1109]

Nobody knows who's making the 360 version.

[Elit3Nick]

It's a different developer, expect it to not play the same as the X1 and pc version

[ricochetmg]

I doubt it.

[itisallaboutps]

Nope! You see EA thought the xbox was going to be the leading console this gen. But they soon realized the opposite, now they have a contract with microsoft and it limits them to so much! Which is great I love to point and laught at the publishers loss of what could been sales because they didn't believe in us

[josephayal]

Exclusive? TitanFall 2 is coming to PS4

[Honest_gamer]

They are on about the first one :/

[DanielGearSolid]

Ea wants money

MS pays for everything

Only one im disappointed in is respawn,
first they lie and say they wanted to focus on one platform, then they claim they didnt know about the deal... EA isnt the only one at fault, IMO

[Rzep]

In this case I would play the devils advocate and say that Respawn is a new company and they need some guaranteed money to cover the costs of development. So the MS payday may have been important as quick money, months before release.

[Rzep]

That's what I never understood about exclusives. They may be good for the console maker, but for the studio? I am guessing most of the time it's not profitable at all. I mean the money they would have to get for shutting off 2 or 3 other platforms would have to be huge and limiting your audience can't be good at all.

[BigPimpin]

It's good for MS to have exclusives but to do this makes me assume that MS is only thinking short term and so are these publishers/developers that take payments like this. Imagine what type of money EA could make LONG-TERM if they made this game multiplatform. To MS, instead of throwing money to buy exclusives, invest in your first party studios that's the reason you bought/made them in the first place. I think MS would get a little more respect if they didn't have to resort to this type of thing, not saying they are the only ones but they are the ones that do it more than any other gaming company out there.

[from the beach]

Probably was. I'm sure they got an entire new wardrobe out of it, never mind hats.

[solidworm]

LOL EA...

[Dark_king]

I guess it all depends on what MS paid(if MS paid no clue if they did)how much dev cost is and what kinds of sells it does.Vs what it could of done being on more platforms.I would assume it will work out in EA's favor with MS paying heavily to advertise the game for there platforms.Course if it were to sell like COD does on those platforms then it would be hurting EA.I know MS would not be paying out that kind of money for a new IP.

[LoveSpuds]

Said it before and I will say it again, these types of deals are bad news for gamers.

There is no way of getting around the fact that had MS decided to invest the money in a 1st party game then XBONE consumers would still be able to play Titan Fall but would also have had another game to look forward to.

MS are simply paying to stitch up gamers who don't have their console instead of developing their own content to earn the respect of gamers and tempt those who don't have the XBONE.

MS don't care about gamers, I honestly believe that.

[forcefullpower]

This is exactly how I feel about what microsoft do. All this does is piss off the people that buy the competition. So they dont try and entice people from sony platform to buy theres as well.

[Skynetone]

it would be funny if they released the sequel two weeks after the xbox version on ps4, just replace a few textures and call it a sequel

[modesign]

if there is a titanfall 2, it will be 100% multiplat. IF there is another.

[modesign]

so im guessing microsoft was stupid enough to say "we will sell 5 million copies", and EA said "we will then assume ps4 would sell 2.5 million copies, we want the amount inwhich 2.5 million sales would be ($150 million)". so im guessing micro paid $150 million to ea just to keep the game on xbone. im going to laugh when it sells less than a million copies.

[GraveLord]

Is bad for the health of the Titanfall franchise.
It's good for EA's bank account.

[Pherros]

I'm starting to like Pach Attack, he has a funny demeanor, and a nice way of explaining things.

[unjust75]

What bothers me about this deal is that it's not an exclusive to Xbox one. It just seems like a way for Microsoft to be like haha.. Sony you can't have his game. That is dumb because your not giving me a reason to buy the Xbox one. I will not buy Xbox one if there is no exclusives because all the crossplatform games for me will be PS4. Sorry Microsoft you screwed up this generation.

[Welcome2Die]

Its gonna come, you can count on it.
Not that I really care because Im looking forward to the other Sony Exclusives anyway.

[jonli1]

oh k so sony can have Exclusives but xbox one cant where the fairness in that people are arguing for the dumbest thing here