In-house development focus over 3rd party exclusives. Is this the right decision??

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Originally Posted by Blu-Generation

I think Sony is following the philosophy of "Don't spend too much" to win.

It's goes like this.

Kid: "Mom, i'm still hungry."

Mother: "You just ate already"

Kid: "...yea, but only one tiny burger."

Mother: "It's better than nothing."

Kid: "Could we please order one more? I'll pay you back later."

Mother: "No, we don't want to spend too much."

Kid: "But you're rich."

Mother: "So! We gotta save up for the future."

Kid: "But what if the world ends tomorrow?"

Mother: "Then we'll worry about that when it happen."

A meteor strike their home the next day, and they die. End of story.

Sorry, but that's a bad analogy. Sony's obviously giving us more than just one "tiny burger." They only have so much money they can invest in games. Unfortunately, instead of developers volunteering the make PS exclusive games, the third-party games go to the highest bidder. I think it was a tough choice Sony had to make when it decided to pursue the first-party games more, but honestly it's going to take a massive amount of money for each blockbuster game to only come to one system, especially if that system is clearly not on top (i.e. competition with Wii and 360).