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The Anarchyz on 17 November 2008
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Kasz216 said:
Pristine20 said:
gebx said:
@ Skiiuk and Pristine

A former Playstation exclusive third party developer is building a new studio that will only (for the time being) on the 360 and Wii.

I'm not spinning things here, this is a great coup for the Wii/360 and a blow to the PS3.

 

The thing is, when S-E was exclusive to ps2, I don't think they were necessarily paid by sony. many devs were exclusive by choice because they could focus their best on only one platform and make very good sales. Sony themselves could never stop shouting that they didn't pay for exclusives. I don't know what their PR was like during the ps1 gen because I didn't listen to PR back then.

This gen, the gap between 360 and ps3 is not enough to justify any 360-only release from a third party that isn't also multiplat to PC. I could understand the wii exclusives but the 360 ones frankly don't make sense. Perhaps they will in the future when these S-E games in question are made by americans for americans because the ps3 has a miserable 17% market share in NA.

 

 

Nah, not back then, though the fact that the PS2 was the only healthy console and Sony owned part of square-Enix didn't hurt things.

The "payoffs" occured during the PS1 era during FF7, in going PS1 over Sega Saturn or Multi-platform by use of money and the promise to market Final Fantasy in the west at the head of massive hundred million dollar advertising campaigns... and to take up all the risk by publishing it in the west.

And when "The Spirits Within" crashed and Square needed an influx of capital before enix would agree to merge with the troubled company.

I remember that time, Square definetly didn't want to go with the N64 because of the cartridges, and they had 2 choices, the really phreaking hard to develop Saturn (if you think the PS3 is hard to develop for, check the Saturn specs) but with gaming experience because it was by Sega, the ones that put Nintendo in check with the Megadrive, or the Playstation, with a better 3d engine than Saturn, better sound, but a rookie company just starting with no experience in the gaming department, the choice was easy once Sony presented its plan to Square, exclusivity deal, co-publishing and marketing in the west (more money for them), and they got the game, it turned out massively great, FFVII brought the series into the mainstream and is the most succesful of the main series...

The difference between that deal and now is that they didn't invented stories, they were straight...