| SickleSigh said:
I would consider Level-5 a second party studio for Sony. Sony has helped Level-5 a lot in the past and they have a good relationship. Insomniac makes Ps3 exclusive games only and they're independant as well because of how close Sony and them are. I really doubt Level-5 would jump ship now considering how much they still support the Ps3 hardware and it's capabilites. They have said White Knight Chronicles is only possible on the Ps3 so maybe they don't mind a hit in sales if they can make a quality game. Ps3 is also bigger in Japan then Xbox which means it might easier for RPGS to attach to gamers. Even if they did want to leave Sony wouldn't let them go easily considering their lack of RPG developers. Level-5 has produced 1 of the greatest rpg for psp and soon for Ps3, really doubt Sony wouldn't pay for them to stay exclusive to home consoles. |
The only reason why Level-5 released games for Sony platforms (and allowed Sony to publish them) in the past is because the PS2 is/was a HUGE hit in Japan. Recently, however, they've been putting a lot of resources toward DS games. If Level-5 were a de-facto Sony second-party, then why weren't Professor Layton and Izunama Eleven developed for the PSP?
And I'll repeat, because nobody answered me the first time: How many Japanese PS3 exclusive announcements have we heard in the last 1-1.5 years, at all?
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