At least that’s what David Reeves told MCV in an interview about the importance of second party titles for a console. “What we’re doing now is focusing a lot on our own IP,” he said back in December. “We’ve found companies like Media Molecule, Insomniac and Naughty Dog who have provided key games for us. I’m not saying we’re completely abandoning exclusives, but we don’t have the $50m dollars to spend on securing exclusive content – and we’d much rather put that money not into securing an exclusive but developing another innovative game like LittleBigPlanet.”
It indeed makes sense, as long as there are still at least a few exclusives left. People will buy a new console only if it offers them more than another and right now many would consider that Xbox 360 has more to offer – at least game-wise. But maybe Sony are right – they know better, don’t they?