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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4631470" data-attributes="member: 20741">A Microsoft exclusive? Are you saying that with a straight face?Let me help your analysis out a little: One of those titles earns Micrsoft a royalty; the other does not.Your expansive definition of &quot;exclusive&quot; would have been greatly appreciated by EA/BioWare, when it had to explain to its fans in Jan 08 that its 360 &quot;exclusive&quot; Mass Effect&nbsp; released in November 07 was due to be released in February 08 for the PC. (As events transpired, it didn't get released till about May 08 for the PC).There were few fans at that time who understood &quot;exclusive&quot; to mean &quot;not on PS3&quot;.Not even EA PR in full flight was trying to spin that as an &quot;exclusive&quot;.&nbsp; The best they could say was that their marketing claims that Mass Effect was an &quot;exclusive&quot; were true...at the time it was initally released. Because when it's available on more than one platform, it is no longer &quot;exclusive&quot;. That's the common meaning of the word in the english language. And *nobody* in the game industry suggests that a title on a console and PC meets the definition of &quot;exclusive&quot;. Halo 3? 360 *only*. That's an exclusive. Well, for now at any rate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 4631470, member: 20741"] A Microsoft exclusive? Are you saying that with a straight face? Let me help your analysis out a little: One of those titles earns Micrsoft a royalty; the other does not. Your expansive definition of "exclusive" would have been greatly appreciated by EA/BioWare, when it had to explain to its fans in Jan 08 that its 360 "exclusive" Mass Effect released in November 07 was due to be released in February 08 for the PC. (As events transpired, it didn't get released till about May 08 for the PC). There were few fans at that time who understood "exclusive" to mean "not on PS3". Not even EA PR in full flight was trying to spin that as an "exclusive". The best they could say was that their marketing claims that [i]Mass Effect[/i] was an "exclusive" were true...at the time it was initally released. Because when it's available on more than one platform, it is no longer "exclusive". That's the common meaning of the word in the english language. And *nobody* in the game industry suggests that a title on a console and PC meets the definition of "exclusive". Halo 3? 360 *only*. That's an exclusive. Well, for now at any rate. [/QUOTE]

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