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Your Number One Fan has Cuphead

Sep 9, 2017 @ 12:31pm

What's with the Xbox exclusive??

Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.

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unclassified has Cuphead

Sep 9, 2017 @ 1:03pm

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.

so microsoft is the devil but you are happy that its out on pc.....mkay...,
microsoft gabe them money so they where able to enhance the game with actuall platform levels.
and since they supported them with money it became a exclusive xbox one /pc title.

Lennox

Sep 9, 2017 @ 1:42pm

At some point after the 2013 teaser trailer, Microsoft offered the team (brothers) a huge deal of money for the rights to make the game a microsoft exclusive. I can only assume Sony either didn't offer them any money, or atleast not as much support as Microsoft. Seeing as they quit their jobs and remortgaged their houses to support their game before any company came along, I see no problem with them accepting microsoft's offer from a financial aspect.

Also do you think if sony or microsoft won the rights to the game they would have made the game a multiplatform release? Probably not. Every company knows that a bigger and better exclusive line up sells more consoles.

Last edited by Lennox; Sep 9, 2017 @ 1:48pm

JoeDaPachuco has Cuphead

Sep 10, 2017 @ 9:29pm

and them have to beat a bunch of wacky fleischer-era cartoons to pay they deal? XD

Your Number One Fan has Cuphead

Sep 12, 2017 @ 4:54pm

Well I guess you guys are right, without all that money the game probably wouldn't have been as great as it will be. I still wish that it was on other consoles though.....

Captain n00by has Cuphead

Sep 12, 2017 @ 6:28pm

MS is publishing the game so it's "MS platforms only" aka Xbox and Windows PC. Same reason why you don't see Zelda and Uncharted on other platforms - exclusive games that sell hardware and/or software.

Schnittertm has Cuphead

Sep 13, 2017 @ 1:11pm

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.

Sony and Nintendo are similar devils of another stripe and color. They do their own types of anti-consumer things to support their platform and lock out a percentage of people that want to play certain games or make you buy their systems. With that they hope for more sales of software and hardware on that system. Anyway, big companies (that includes Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo) will always try to paint it so that they are your buddies and all the other companies just want to exploit you, yet in the end they are all in the business of trying to exploit you and get are your money as far as the laws allow it (and sometimes beyond).

Toolkitz Games has Cuphead

Oct 13, 2017 @ 1:19pm

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC,

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Polaric

Oct 13, 2017 @ 1:26pm

Ps4 gets many good exclusives like Bloodborne or Uncharted 4. Xbox should have them too so don't cry and buy on pc, cuz loading screens are 2x faster.

HG|Bossu

Mar 16, 2018 @ 2:56am

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.

Microsoft practically funded a good 1/3rd of the game so they partnered up and Microsoft decided to advertise and continue to endorse the game. So Microsoft was being helpful but at a "price" according to what you said earlier.

coolDisguise has Cuphead

Mar 16, 2018 @ 6:58am

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Well I guess you guys are right, without all that money the game probably wouldn't have been as great as it will be. I still wish that it was on other consoles though.....

You got a point though: platform exclusives are not good for the industry as a whole, and certainly not for any costumer. Doesn't matter what you personally think about Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft and who you think is better - at the end of the day, games being exclusive to one platform just means people missing out on games and the competition on other platforms missing a competitor, which could then again be driving development for ALL platforms giving us even better games in the future.

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RuNE Mar 16, 2018 @ 2:06pm

Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.

A lot of Indie games have been ported to the switch (Undertale, BATIM, etc.) so...... It is very much possible.

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HG|Bossu

Mar 17, 2018 @ 7:28am

Originally posted by Rocket_07:
Originally posted by ItsaGamer05:
Why is it only on Xbox for consoles?? Kinda ironic when the motto of the game is "Don't deal with the devil" but the creators just did, and that devil is Microsoft. At least it's on PC, but for the love of god, please port this game to PS4 or Switch. Xbox exclusive won't do you any good.
A lot of Indie games have been ported to the switch (Undertale, BATIM, etc.) so...... It is very much possible.

Wait since when was batim ported to the switch? Last time I checked themeatly said it was gonna be on Xbox and PlayStation.

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RuNE Mar 17, 2018 @ 9:13am

Originally posted by HG|Dr Jamison Junkenstein:
Originally posted by Rocket_07:
A lot of Indie games have been ported to the switch (Undertale, BATIM, etc.) so...... It is very much possible.
Wait since when was batim ported to the switch? Last time I checked themeatly said it was gonna be on Xbox and PlayStation.

TheMeatly told us on his YT channel. I don't know if it got stopped or something because I only check his YT channel and not Twitter sooooo......

Last edited by RuNE; Mar 17, 2018 @ 9:14am

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