I would make a reasonable guess that Xbox users are getting the DLC first because they make up the majority of the game player base and it’s mostly stable on that platform in comparison to the PC and PS3 issues yet to be resolved. It’s a month to do some more patching while getting the product out there for most people…

I stopped playing FoNV because of this. By the time the new DLC was out for xbox, I was struggling with finding new things to do. After a month of waiting I never got back to new vegas. This can't happen with Skyrim though, the game is too darn epic.



And really guys, this became a console, pc flame war already on page two?

i have both consoles (ps3 and xbox360) and my pc is a a real monster

and i don't see any good point in playing on consoles - graphics svck, loading times svck (even if the game is installed on the xbox)

i got the consoles just for exclusive titles such as gears of war / uncharted

everything else i play on my beast rig and that will not change

If M$ paid for 360 get the DLC early, why the PC delay? Not that I really care, though, whatever the DLCs are they will never compare to what PC users get when the Construction Kit is out.

because beth are sellouts

BF3 isn't any worse than other shooter on consoles (shooter are all equally unplayable with gamepad as far as I'm concerned).

Actually it is one of the best blu-ray players out there and the most scalable this far My PS3 have evolved from Blu-Ray 1.0, through 1.1, then to 2.0 live, and now 5.0 3D all without me being forced to do anything other than download a new firmware. I have friends who are on their 3rd player now while I still use my PS3.

I don't use it that much for playing though and prefer gaming on my PC but that is just me not being comfortable with the hand controls prefering mouse+keyboard+Track IR+Joystick+Pedals when playing games...

This question has come up time and time again, they've paid off many developers for this privilege in the past. Most notably with the Call of Duty folks at Activision.

hahahaha sorry but how is this a bad thing?

xbox players will be beta testing my game for a month whoop!

I know it's a cliche, but because of Micro$oft.

I don't know why this practice hasn't been regulated yet. It's uncompetitive market behaviour, something that I thought was really stringently controlled in the U.S., where Microsoft is based.

Money, probably.

Off topic: I hope we get a DLC set around the Vigilants of Sttendarr and an option to join them.

Funny how MW3 is far more fun than BF3 on the 360, despite the fact that everyone hates CoD on the internet.

Technically, DLC hit the PC first because Sony and Microscoff are lame and don't allow mods

Because the PC is not a Microsoft platform (besides using Windows). Microsoft doesn't get a cent from the PC version of Sykrim while they get royalties for each 360 version so of cause they prefer that everyone buys the Xbox360 version instead and can't care less if you play on the PC.

Good job! You totaly missed the point in my post!

I don't see how you boasting about your PC is a valid reply to my post honestly.

microsoft is more rich

I am 100% okay with Xbox360 gamers beta testing any DLC. By the time it comes to PS3 and PC.. it may even work properly

Because xbox players make fine Beta testers. When the DLC comes out for PC all bugs will be known (thanks to our Beta testers) and all PC players will be happy with a (nearly) bug-free version!

Beat me by a few seconds!

Well did you know that Tasmania got Pringle's chips a full ten years before mainland Australia did?

You see when a company wants to test the waters with a new product they do it early in one place first to see how it takes then if all is well they go full scale.

How this relates to this DLC question?

You need me to figure that out for you?

I did a Bethesda. I clicked Post before fully checking it through prior to release

If someone paid you an insane amount of money to send out part of a game a month early, wouldn't you do it? Even though, I'm on PS3, I don't mind. Plus, on PS3 I have never had anything go remotely wrong with Skyrim.

What a load of codswallop.

Exclusivity isn't new, isn't illegal and so on. It's present within all media outlets. What about the cable channel that buys the rights to show a box office movie before its competitors, the radio station which gets first play of a new song, a phone company that sells mobile phones with unique appearance features (for example a red iPhone) etc, etc etc? Uncompetitive behavior would be if MS influenced the market price for their own ends. As far as I'm aware and going on previous, the DLC, no matter which platform we're talking about, will be priced the same when it's initially released.

Yeah, it obviously upsets you that you aren't getting the DLC when it's first released, but like most people who start blindly touching upon all this legal malarkey, you don't understand the first thing about it.

Eh, I don't mind. As long as they don't do an exclusive thing then I'm quite happy here on PS3.

It's called an exclusivity agreement and MS pays top dollar for those contracts.