At E3 2014 there were dozens of announcements pertaining to limited time and first-come downloadable content on both sides of the aisle. Lately, the battle has moved into downloadable content. Developers need that extra revenue that launches on multiple platforms can provide to cover the increasing cost of producing blockbuster titles. This worked for a while, but the growing cost of producing blockbuster games have forced developers and publishers to reconsider these sorts of deals. Each of them didn’t just have their own studios producing games that owners of competing consoles couldn’t play, they both starting reaching out to individual development studios and locking down access to games in the hope of attracting more users to their console.

It used to be that Microsoft and Sony fought over which games to have on their platforms.

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