It's still funny to me that Xbox fans want to portray Microsoft as innocent when it comes to exclusive deals.
Let me remind you of what Microsoft did in the past when it came to exclusive deals. This will include exclusive deals, lifetime deals, and failed deals.
XBOX
TECMO
Microsoft made exclusive deals with Tecmo to make games exclusively for their platform.
Ninja Gaiden Black, Ninja Gaiden II, Dead or Alive 3
After the success of Dead or Alive 2, Tecmo was working on continuing the series when Microsoft approached them, offering a deal to develop the next Dead or Alive as an exclusive title for the recently announced Xbox.
SEGA
Microsoft made 11 game deal with Microsoft.
Microsoft Corp put more firepower in the arsenal of its new Xbox videogame console with 11 game titles to be created by Japanese software developer Sega Corp for its autumn launch, according to chairman Mr Bill Gates.
This includes games such as Jet Set Radio Future, Crazy Taxi 3, Shenmu II and Panzer Dragoon Orta.
CAPCOM
Microsoft had the
chance to make Resident Evil 4 exclusive to Xbox.
Resident Evil 4 was very briefly a GameCube exclusive, but had Microsoft been better equipped, it might have been a long-term Xbox exclusive instead.
www.nintendo.destructoid.com
BIOWARE
Microsoft made deals with Bioware to make games exclusively for their platform. Probably why we didn't see some of their other titles on other platforms.
Microsoft Unveils Much-Anticipated Action Role-Playing Game at Tokyo Game Show
news.microsoft.com
XBOX 360
Dead or Alive 4
Bioshock
Time exclusive deal
New York, NY - September 28, 2006 - 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today…
www.gamesindustry.biz
Oblivion
Time Exclusive
BIOWARE
Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were time exclusive for Xbox.
We've been doing a lot of wondering about BioWare lately: wondering what the company is going to do with the Wii; wondering what our saves from the first Mass Effect will do to the sequel. But most of all, we've been wondering if Mass Effect 2 will be making its way to the PlayStation 3, like...
www.engadget.com
Alan Wake
Alan Wake was a marketing deal for the 360. Remedy bought the rights back from Microsoft.
Remedy Entertainment has reacquired the publishing rights for Alan Wake games, the company has announced.
www.gamespot.com
XBOX ONE
Full Exclusive Deals
Dead Rising 3
Ryse
Time Exclusive Deals
Dead Rising 4
Rise of the Tomb Raider
PUBG
There are more but these are notable titles.
Deals happen and they have been happening for years. I don't get this crap about Sony being shady when it Nintendo and Sega were doing it in the 90s.