MS Announces Timed Exclusive Deal For Call Of Duty Add-Ons

Kicking off the Microsoft press briefing with a medium-sized bang, as executive Don Mattrick announced a three-year deal with Activision that guarantees all future Call of Duty DLC--including map packs and other add-ons--will launch first on the Xbox 360.   
  
Do note that this deal does not make all Call of Duty DLC exclusive to the Xbox. It merely stipulates that all future add-ons will launch on the Xbox 360 before the PC and PS3. 
 
If you're going to continue paying for Call of Duty DLC on the 360 before the PS3, you'll be able to start this fall with Call of Duty: Black Ops--the first title to fall inside of this timed "exclusivity first" deal.

OH well more stuff I don't care about

Black Ops will rock.

So harsh to PS3 owners.  Although I do wonder how they actually define "exclusive" as they have had pretty shaky definitions of that in the past.

That's an odd choice.

Is this where I mention Lincoln Force?

Exclusivity deals :/

weren't they already doing this with the MW2 map packs? 
meh.

haha, and now all those people that complained about the recent Sony exclusive stuff can just shove it.  Complain complain complain as if Sony is the only one that does this shit.

" OH well more stuff I don't care about "

Doesn't seem that big of a deal.

Are we to expect one month of exclusivity?

I loved how they included CoD as one of the big Xbox "three" because it gets overpriced DLC first.
 
Mappack DLC splits the community, it needs to stop.

" Doesn't seem that big of a deal. "

" OH well more stuff I don't care about "

The things that money will allow you to do.

Kind of shitty. Could be worse though. Could be xbox 360 exclusive and to make up for the lost sales they could charge twice as much...Oh shit, I shouldn't give them ideas.

we're gonna run this shit into the ground FIRST guys, get on board!

"Is this where I mention Lincoln Force? "

Overpriced map packs don't give a fuck

" Is this where I mention Lincoln Force? "

It kind of suck for ps3 owners like me but xbox owners have to pay xboxlive so i guess it makes sense...i guess.

dont really care

Thank god. Gives me longer to play the game before map packs I won't pay for rotate in to the play lists.

Woo Hoo!!!  Urm, not really...  Lincoln Force FTW.

" I hate this shit MS does...getting it like a month before Sony. "

This exclusive dlc stuff all over the place is so weird 

I'm not at all surprised by this.

Who cares?

I lol'd

could pretty much care less
good for 360 owners that do though, i suppose
 
<_<
>_>
 
ya, i wanted the lincoln force achievement. big deal wanna fight about it?

MW2 flashbacks

This is kind-of lame. Just shitty for PS3 fans. 
 
I doubt this'll get people to buy 360s. just annoy fans.

As if this really makes much of a difference. 360 users can't play against PS3 users, so It doesn't really matter.

Overpriced map packs, hwo cares?

I don't really mind if they're exclusive or not. I don't buy much DLC for games anyway, so even if they are exclusive I don't see a real need for me to be buying it. Unless it's truly amazing I'll stay away from purchasing DLC.

This seems like a really bad idea. I doubt it will affect sales much at all, but it definitely will piss off PS3 owners.

meh. exclusive content is pretty minor

I am selling my PS3.

I don't really see this as being a big deal... It's not like they are never releasing the content on the PS3.

Not interested in CoD at all!

Ho hum.

getting pretty exhausted of this call of duty overload

Fantastic: The return of the timed exclusive debates.

yup

This does not strike me as a necessary move on Microsoft's part.  If users do not have both the PS3 and 360, then it doesn't really matter to them when the map packs come out.  If they want to get their COD on in the newest maps, it is going to happen on the platform they bought it on.  If people are like me and own both, are they seriously going to be a FPS on the Playstation?  Obviously people like me have more money than sense and have a Gold membership on Live.  I am going to go out of a pretty firm limb and say that there are more dudes on the 360 playing online than on the Playstation Network.   And so, you'd likely buy it for the 360 anyway. 
 
I'm just saying, Microsoft should have published a few more new and interesting Arcade games than bought the ability to say "And the first map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops will be exclusive* to the 360!"

Woope!

I'd like to know what they paid for this.