To everybody who ever said gaming was evil, it turns out that at least one industry player expects nothing less than virginal purity from its partners. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s Chris Lewis admits that the company won’t put a game on Xbox if it was previously released on another platform.
“We’re a little biased, so obviously we’re going to look to protect our own space as best we can and get exclusivity,” he says.
“Whilst I can’t be specific about the terms and conditions, you can be very confident we seek to maximise our own advantage to ensure the playing field is even, and certainly plays to our advantage wherever possible.”
According to Microsoft’s Content Submission and Release Policy, Xbox titles “must ship at least simultaneously with other video game platform, and must have at least feature and content parity on-disc with the other video game platform versions in all regions where the title is available”.
And if those conditions aren’t met, then “Microsoft reserves the right to not allow the content to be released on Xbox 360.”
This same policy applies to Xbox LIVE Arcade content.
Lewis then goes on to talk about how Microsoft wants what its customers want, and it’s all about being competitive, blah blah blah, like it’s true or something. So where’s Trine, huh? Huh?
In other news, apparently games released on XBL first are doing just great on PSN.
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