Good god are you both that far up playstation/sony's ass? Im beginning to think you don't even know how business works. Microsoft owns the Halo and Gears brand. For every toy or costume or board game or any other form of ANYTHING to do with either of those franchises,Microsoft gets a cut for licensing out their brand. If we are talking about the developer,then yes they would prefer to see more sales in the video game because they are strictly paid based off of the development/sales of a game. As a company though Microsoft would much prefer the appeal of having a huge franchise that sells in many forms. Why do you think companies always try to expand their business portfolio when it comes to their product. There is a reason these video games are being turned into movies and everything else. If they only cared about sales of a video game they wouldn't even attempt to make the movies and other things and lose a shit ton of money like say Ratchet and Clank the movie cost Sony.

Im taking nothing away from the success of games like uncharted and Gran Turismo,nor the success of the ps4 in general. They are clearly winning this generation and they are making great games. But id be willing to bet if you had an off the record conversation with any Sony exec and asked "you can have either Uncharted or Halo which would you take" and id be sure they would take Halo simply because there is much more money to be made

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This post was edited by D3AliD3 on May 23 2016 12:50pm

You take nothing away because you are just giving Microsoft a rim job.

I'm simply saying any company would rather have more sales then awareness. That has nothing to do with Sony specifically.

Microsoft paid for Tomb Raider exclusivity and on record it's because they have nothing like Uncharted. So dial your fanboy down a notch.

This post was edited by ROM on May 23 2016 12:51pm

Exactly. How stupid do you have to be to argue the fact that a dev would rather have the brand awareness of a character through board games and costumes then actual sales of the game.

the ps fan that comes to xbox forum to bitch?

What am I bitching about?

Read what you literally just said. Do you think they give away the action figures and board games and all of that for free? You probably wont believe this,but they actually sell them for money. If Halo makes a billion dollars a year from all its revenue,and Uncharted makes 500 million (fyi don't take these numbers for real,they are just an example) Do you think Microsoft would be that upset that Uncharted outsold it in the video game world? Of course they would like better sales which would give more revenue,but at the end of the day a company simply cares about revenue and profit.

What does Microsoft buying Tomb Raider exclusivity have to do with anything I posted. If you think im a fanboy for stating business facts you are clearly delusional. I hope every game that gets released and every console that gets released does well,its simply good for the consumer which is what we all are. If Xbox or PlayStation owned the entire market share, they wouldn't give a fuck about putting out a good product because they know they have the only product on the shelf.

And for the record since im such a fanboy,i actually don't even like the majority of Xbox's exclusives. I play them because I am a gamer and play a shit ton of games and I think they are pretty good,but in no way do I think Halo or Gears are amazing games compared to what most seem to think.

This post was edited by Danno_omen on May 23 2016 02:50pm

weird i thought i made this topic only talking about sales, how the hell did we get on halloween and action figures?

You don't seem to build on your own points and some counter your own argument. I'm done debating.

I'm going to play Uncharted 4 while I assume you are going to dress up as Master Chief and play some Halo Monopoly.

Its not much of a debate when you put up zero points or counter arguments. If you looked at my profile you would see I probably own more games then you've even played lol