Because MS wants everyone to believe they monetize you better than everyone else. "Ahead of the industry" nope sounds like right in line with the rest of the industry actually.
You're wrong dude, Sony can make another Spider-Man game whenever they want, the movie contract issue has nothing to do with game development. You yourself used the word "assume" in your comment below, you know what happens when you assume right?
Here hopefully this will quite the wishful thinkers in this comment string.
So now previous relationship is a requirement when you fear MS might loose another developer? Ok well in that case Microsoft better not buy any developer they haven't published games for in the past.
You guys can use buzzwords like ecosystem all day long and talk about who owns Windows and where the money goes and blah blah blah and that's all great everybody already knows that but at the end of the day what it means is people can play all their games without buying their unneeded and unnecessary console, end of.
"I dont give a rats ass.........and neither does Microsoft."
So MS spends millions upon millions to develop a new console and...
