forevercloud3000 said:
I love it when the misinformed use this, that way I can set it straight.....again. Square did not leave Nintendo in search of better profits, if anything Nintend would have been able to offer them more in actual incentive. This was a day in age where Square cared more about quality then profits. Square had already developed their game, FFVII, for CD format as the N64 was meant to have a disc drive add on. After Nintendo decided that idea would be scraped in order to keep the system economically pleasing(cheap) Square would be at a loss. Do they start from scratch on a hindering format and console? 1. Or go to the stronger more powerful console which also uses the CD format. DING! and Square and Sony lived happily ever after. You see, Nintendo started the issue that caused them to abandon them, as a matter of fact, Square did not do business with Nintendo for a while until their leadership changed. This Time of course it is very different. Sony has been doing plenty with supplying SE with the best tools and such to make a game on PS3 work. Yea, the 360 userbase is bigger, but it also came out a year before so that is a duh. 2. Userbase means nothing if it is not your target audience, which it is not. After the onlsaught PS3 was putting on 360 for almost a year, MS had to do something about it. That is where E3 came in, and it has been a nightmare ever since. 3. None of their new IPs are any good. Sales down 74% for SE. Userbase is simply not catching hold on 360 There best selling title was for the PSP,Crisis Core. WHo knew that a SE RPG would sell well on a PS system? 4. THey have yet to put out a PS3 game which is where their fanbase is They have blatently lied to fans all around and lost many of their approval and devotion They just all around sux right now. There saving grace? Tetsuya Nomura, for without him I would shun them as would many PS3 owners. They have done us and themeselves no justice this gen. |
1. Talking about misinformed: The N64 was leaps and bounds more powerfull than the PS1.
2. So far I haven't seen any evidence that the PS3 in fact DOES have the JRPG audience either. If anything at least some 360 JRPGs sold ok.
3. I take it you played them all?
4. See my second point.
Anyway, the PS3's userbase is apparently not big enough for SE. No game magically creates millions of console sales. You saw MGS4. Massive success, but in total the PS3 boost was maybe 500.000 at max. In Japan the PS3 userbase is now UNDER the average Final Fantasy sales. Those lost sales have to come from somewhere, and if you can't see that the 360 audience buys loads of games (especially those with high review scores and hype) you must do some research.
