Homefront’s publisher THQ has apparently been taking notes from the deal made between Microsoft and Activision earlier this year. At a Homefront press even on Friday, a partnership was announced between THQ and Microsoft that will give the Xbox 360 version of the game one exclusive map, and first access to all future DLC. No word was given on how much DLC we can expect or how long the DLC will remain Xbox 360 exclusive. What we do know, however, is that the one exclusive map Xbox owners will be getting is called ‘Suburb’.
More information about this deal is set to go live on next week’s edition of ‘Inside Xbox’, so we’ll keep you posted when we know more.
Source: Joystiq
djnino
YAWN! What’s new Micro$oft?
ElGuason
lolmicro$oft
TheChaosGamer
Typical of Microsoft to throw cash around…
squashme
PATHETIC
kivi95
Well i was not going too buy this game,just looks like a wannabee cod game.
KeRaSh
With an interesting fictional background story for a change? Yes please.
kivi95
yes but the gameplay will all be the same.
KeRaSh
So this is how they want to fight off the wave of awesome PS3 exclusives? PS3 gamers won’t even realise that there is DLC out for another console because they will be too busy playing truly awesome games. It’s going to be MP maps anyways which I don’t care for. I’ll get Homefront for the SP and then just move on.
BG123
this
solidsteven
MS please change the record. Let me see, so far MS have managed to get an exclusive map to combat Sony’s exclusives. they will have to do better than this. Hmm a game vs a map. I wonder which is better there’s only one way to find out. *Spoiler alert* game wins
TSBonyman
Anyone would think there were no PS3 exclusives.
This is about the only THQ game i’m interested in for PS3 atm.
KeRaSh
The new Red Faction Armageddon game looks great, too!
Dan Lee
It seems both Microsoft and Sony still see exclusive deals like this as important (bearing in mind Sony’s deals with Medal of Honor, Mafia II and Dead Space 2). Personally, unless it’s an amazing exclusive item I’ll just get the game on whatever system my friends are.
Erroneus
While it’s properly MS who is behind the deal, I could actually also be THQ, trying to stir up some PR for what seem to be a mediocre title.
Kovacs
Though personally not a fan of timed exclusive or content exclusive tied to one platform for a multiplatform title, early and exclusive DLC is a valid business model in this industry. It affects the purchasing decisions of some people and, as a business, Microsoft are entitled to use it. And let’s not forget that Sony has secured platform exclusive content for games on their plaform.
Is such a tactic on Microsoft’s behalf a direct response to Sony’s ostensibly superior exclusive line-up? I doubt it. At least, I hope not. I’m sure the 360 will respond accordingly with its own exclusive roster.
It’s cool to not like what they’re doing (as I said, I’m not a huge fan of the tactic) but this is an industry after all. This approach worked and is working with COD. It makes sense they’d continue with it. It also makes sense why THQ would agree to it. It’s money for old rope, and this industry is hard enough without turning away investment.
jayjay119
i agree but increasingly less I find. These days gaming is becoming more and more creative and more expensive, thus people are playing less games due to the sheer amount of games they want to play (my list of to-play has me two years behind, I still haven’t had chance to play Uncharted 2 for example). The way I see it, and I think a lot of others are too is that by the time I get round to playing this game, the DLC most probably will have arrived on the platform I want. Thus MS’s tactic is becoming increasingly strained.
aphex187
Maybe good for the industry but not good for the consumer.
Kovacs
But good for the industry invariably means good for the consumer.
THQ and Kaos get some extra money, make another game. This deal will hardly make or break the studio, but it helps keep them solvent. It all adds up. Let’s say publishers all just stop investing in studios for exclusive games and/or content. Some studios would simply close, as some development houses litetally survive on the money up front from the likes of Sony and Microsoft.
Some people naturally will miss out due to this practice but it’s not a pernicious underhanded tactic to shaft the majority of people. It keeps money flowing into a challenging industry which, ultimately, results in studios continuing to make games.
I’d rather a studio make an exclusive game using a publisher’s money than not a game at all.