Team Ninja on the small PS3 install base

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HappySqurriel said:

stof said:
It seems to me like the guy isn't saying it to defend the PS3 as much as he's saying it to criticize companies like Eidos who are willing to sit on a finished product until they think the install base is larger. And I can't blame him for that. "We're going to let other people release games now, and then when those same games have widened the install base enough, we'll release ours" It is kind of dickish.

It may be a "dickish" thing to do but it is also a very smart business move ...

Eidos probably began development of PS3 games well before E3 2006 and were working on the assumption that Sony would have sold 10 to 15 Million consoles worldwide by the time their games were expected to launch; if they're realistic about their potential sales they know they're not going to move that many systems so if they release their game on schedule they would end up selling 1/2 to 1/4 of the number of games as they initially projected.

I hate to be too big of a dink about it, but there is a reason why Eidos is in the top 10 to 20 publishers in the world and Tecmo isn't; why Eidos has 16 games that have sold more than 1 Million units worldwide and Tecmo only has 1.

 Yeah but back to his original point, it doesn't mean that eidos makes better games. Eidos has made many generic games and assited in final fantasy ports and so forth. THey have kept the money flowing. But you also have to compare how many games has tecmo done recently as well. How are they rated?

Showing how much more eidos has sold to imply that there are a better company is akin to showing how many more PS2's were sold in comparison to the gamecube.