Now Apple is gunning for exclusives too

Last month Apple unveiled its Apple Arcade gaming service, which is Apple's planned subscription-based Netflix for games - where Apple users can pay a monthly fee and play as many games on Arcade as they want. We already knew that Apple was investing a lot of money into persuading developers to make games for the service, and the last we heard these games were also allowed to come to PC too at the same time - but this may not be the case. According to reports, Apple is apparently spending millions of dollars securing exclusive games for the Apple Arcade subscription service - possibly as much as US$500 million, or even higher. While games such as the anticipated Beyond a Steel Sky will be allowed to go to PC and consoles, there will have "a few months of exclusivity" on Apple's service first. Apart from Beyond a Steel Sky developer Revolution, studios such as Disney, Sega, Lego, Konami, Snowman, Annapurna Interactive, WayForward, and Klei Entertainment all have games coming to Apple Arcade - and Apple may be planning exclusivity deals with all of them, potentially.

from PCGamesN http://bit.ly/2GjF02v