amirnetz said:
SE is not Sony's friends. Businesses in general are not freinds. They are businesses.
For years SE and Sony had a mutually beneficial relationship. Sony provided a dominant platform and SE was free to focus the development on that platform and save significant costs without losing much sales.
Sony, by its own missteps, lost the dominant position of yesteryears and with that its interests were not aligned anymore with SE's.
SE did what every business is required by law - act for the benefit of its shareholders. In this case - it correctly recognized that its shareholder value will be much higher if it will release its games to the more prevelant gaming platforms of this generation. And it did what it had to do.
Had SE put Sony's interests ahead of its shareholders, it's board and management would have failed their bona fide duties and would likely be ousted by its share holders.
This is business. Not social.
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You people should be lucky that S-E even care about the PS3 at all. S-E didn't do anything wrong. Sony did. S-E are just trying to make money and they have to look at new opportunities. Last generation, developers could develop just for the PS2 and still make a huge amount of profit. However, development costs went up this gen to a point where making exclusives is incredibly risky now. Game development is a business first and a love labour second. Sony made several bad descisions related to the PS3 and as a result lost significant market share. If game developers want to make serious profit now, multiplatform development is the way to go and S-E have recognized this.
