Erik Aston on 31 March 2007
stewacide said:
Why should Square-Enix sacrifice their biggest franchise to help Sony sell systems? If the FF13 games are still a year or so off, it seems to me the much smarter decision, in terms of Japanese sales anyway, would be to move the main series to Wii, and make whatever they've been working on for the PS3 a spin-off of some sort.
It really depends how far into production they are. I'm sure FF13 is a much bigger and longer proposition than... Probably most other games in history... So if they are really planning to release the game in 2007, its unlikely they will totally scrap what they've made and move the project to Wii... Especially if they've already spent 10 or 20 million dollars developing the game for PS3, they aren't likely to rebrand that work as a spin-off...
What they might do is announce PS3 will only have timed exclusivity of the game, before the other systems get ports.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
