How bad has square enix been for sony this gen

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c0rd said:

forevercloud3000 said:

c0rd said:

@forevercloud3000: Are you trying to tell me that if RE4 did not arrive on the PS2, 2.71m more Gamecubes would have been sold?

I'm sorry, but I find that to be pretty ridiculous.

I think you are looking at it in reverse. Yes it came to gamecube first, but if you remember correctly RE is an EX PS exclusive franchise, the fanbase lied with PS2. When you look at the numbers of PS2 one compared to the GC one, you can see if they had not tried to pull the whole GC exclusive thing those sales would have all been on PS2.

 

That may be the case, but this gen many old PS2 users have skipped out on the PS3, and bought the 360. There are more people in this catagory than you'd like to believe. The fact is, most people cannot afford more than one system (or just can't justify paying the price). If someone only likes a handful of games on the PS3 (FFXIII included), they may have skipped out on the game.

Take a look at Halo 3's sales, and how well it's doing above the 2nd game. If Halo 2 were released on a more popular system last gen, it probably would have sold more.

 

Have you seen how much FF's sell of late? 5-7million at best. All the next gen systems have userbases larger then that so who is to say that majority of the FF fanbase is on any of them? 5-7 can be placed inside any of the next gen systems without issue. I have already proved with other post that MP games do not magically make a game sell better then its predecessors in a franchise, they sell about the same unless acted upon by an outside force. That would intail good marketing, bigger budget stuff, and put simply if it is a phenomonally better game(where all that porting money SHOULD have been spent).

Initially my main justification for buying a PS3 was FFXIII and Versus. I had other picks but they were the biggest ones. As long as FF was coming none of the other stuff mattered. I can assure you there are millions of buyers like me who can justify a purchase with a single game. Halo 3 was one, MGS4 was one, FFXIII will be the next.