Final Fantasy XIII To Be Available Worldwide Later This Year?

[epicurean]

Munkeh111 said:

epicurean said:

Munkeh111 said:

epicurean said:
This is my only gripe with it coming to the 360...the fact that its delaying the product as a whole. It makes no sense from a business aspect unless MS (or someone..) paid them quite a bit of money....

It does make sense to release it on 360 in western markets, it more than doubles the install base they are making the game for

 

 I in no way said I didn't think they shouldn't release it on the 360.  But they shouldn't delay releasing a finished product to create a port to another system.  It makes no sense from a business perspective.  At best, you're just costing yourself the interest you'd make on the money earned.

Okay, well that is because M$ paid them. Apparantly they had a contract with Sony, and then M$ gave them a ton of cash and they ripped up the contract, but I think Sony negotiated to keep exclusivity in Japan. Nobody (apart from Wada) really knows what happened, but it is almost certain that M$ paid SE for it to come to Xbox

I agree that something like this probably happened, and that's what angers me.  I don't care if MS throws money around to buy exclusives (I have both consoles, and I actually perfer exclusives), but they anger me when they're keeping me from playing a game I want to play!