Does Sony not care about third parties? (FF XIII related)

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Soriku said:

outlawauron said:

Soriku said:
My point is that Sony can't live off first party and some second party games forever. MS is buying exclusives and multiplats. If the game does really well on the 360 then third parties might not put that certain game on the PS3. Userbase is crucial and without the proper third party support it could hurt them. MS can always buy exclusivity or companies can just make games Wii exclusive (MS hasn't gone after Wii exclusives. They seem to only want to hurt Sony.). I mean...yeah, the PS3 won't sell 100 mil+ but couple that with the fact that they don't make much money on the PS3 and third parties are leaving Sony (making 360 games exclusive or multiplat) and Wii games as exclusive.

Well Nintendo did that  for the Gamecube and N64 era, and they did well for themselves as far as quality titles and profitability. I really think Sony has said again and again that they want to make money, and then start buying out titles. I think it might not be late to beat the 360 then (next year).

 

 

Well...like I said (and others have as well) Sony is no Nintendo in terms of profitability and first/second party game popularity (the PS1/PS2 were regarded so highly mostly because of third parties). And then we have MS attacking them as well and I don't think Sony will be out of it easily like Nintendo with the N64/GC. They can still expand their first/second party game userbase though.

You should remember that Nintendo has had a bigger monopoly on the hand held arena than Microsoft has on OS, that is until the psp stole about a third of it.  Also, Nintendo has had 20 years to build up their first party franchises.  Sony's biggest franchise is also one of their oldest, Gran Turismo.

 

And for the people saying that SE will make FF13 inferior on the 360, believe it or not companies have pride, and SE will not let FF13 go out the door if the 360 version is noticeably inferior in any way.

 

Quick question though about the Crystal Tools which might be intriguing to some people, my self included.  If the Crystal Tools is to allow them to make PC games and then port it to consoles and have it be a high quality port (so that you don't even know it is a port), does anyone else hope that they will start releasing games on the PC?  I know Infinite Undiscovery is coming to PC, but I think that is using Epic's Unreal Engine.  Personally I plan on getting it for PC so that I can help show there is interest in SE making PC games because what they have been able to do on the ps2 with its limited hardware, just imagine what they can do with PC where there is pretty much no limits to what you can do.