Star Ocean 4...atomic bomb?

[Tyrannical]

Deviation59 said:

Tyrannical said:
SE dropped Sony exclusivity when PS3 sales bombed. You can't blame SE for wanting to jump off a sinking ship.

Except they're going exclusive on a platform that's doing even worse than the PS3 in Japan. Whatever Japanese sales of the game are, they'd probably be around double that on the PS3 (in Japan).

The game should be multiplatform.

As far as sales go.... I don't think it will break a million worldwide. However many copies it ends up selling, it would probably almost double that total if it were multi-platform. Is Microsoft really moneyhatting SE so extensively that it's worth losing out on 500-750k additional sales?

The only company that benefits from this at all is Microsoft, since they're doing everything they can to hamstring the PS3 in Japan.

Yeah, a bit of the frying pan into the fire

I think MS had been offering attractive financial deals on royalty percentages to encourage. I also think that developers have taken what could have been a PS2 game and upped the graphics some. I don't think any of the 360 jrpgs so far couldn't have been done on the PS2 with just a little less flash. MS offers some insentives, and developers get a shot at new gen hardware with minimal risks.

Some JP manga niche publisher no one cares about announced it was going with the 360, because they could quickly and cheaply get a simple game done. They basicly claimed the PS3 was prohibitively expensive for there low volume niche titles. It might just be half as expensive or less to make a simple jrpg on the 360. Software development packages should be MS key strength.