| ookaze said: Where did this sinking of $5B came from? It's $6.7 B already and counting. And I sure hope Square Enix is not stupid enough to partner with MS. MS partners are usually destroyed. Fortunately they aren't partners. The situation for Infinite Undiscovery (or whatever the name) is that MS PAYS for the game, SE publish and Tri-Ace develops. So, it's business as usual for MS in Japan: moneyhats! And I understand that gamers don't like that. That makes one more console to buy, that no one wants, and that steals some games by using an unsustainable model (moneyhats). It seems like you can't buy your way to marketshare, at least in Japan, and unfortunately, that's the usual MS business model. It seems like it doesn't work in most cases, like the Zune and countless other failed products showed. I understand developers' fears too. You just can't associate yourself with such a failure in Japan, as the stigma will stick to you forever after that. Mistwalker already destroyed their brand new company's reputation. I can never understand why they did that, and I doubt making a DS game will save them. |
Yea MS partners are usually always destroyed.... im not even gonna comment.
At this point many are believing that SE is stupid to only side with sony, unless sales pick up. I cant believe SE hasnt built a relationship with microsoft till now.
How did Mistwalker destroy its reputation? Many xbox fans were overjoyed by the sound of Mistwalker and MS working together. Destroyed? Mistwalker is made up of 10 people, thats it. How are they in any sort of trouble of being destroyed? Seriously.
Having created blue dragon which sold over 200k on a 400k system in japan is rather quite good, its sold another 160k in the US in two weeks and we have yet to see Europe release (wont be very high but will still help). This game will easily sell over 500k. Artoon made BD, not Mistwalker all they did was supervise, i dont understand how anything they would be destroyed.
Currently LO is on Fams top list for games at 8 with TGS coming up with brand new footage. We barely know anything about the game, yet it is quite hyped.
Again how could they be destroyed, siding with MS has nothing to do with being destroyed so take that out of your mind.
With regard to Call of Duty 4 having an ultra short single player campaign, I guess it may well have been due to the size limitations of DVD on the XBox 360, one of various limitations multi-platform game designers will have to take into consideration-Mike B
Proud supporter of all 3 console companys
Proud owner of 360wii and DS/psp
Game trailers-Halo 3 only dissapointed the people who wanted to be dissapointed.
Bet with Harvey Birdman that Lost Odyssey will sell more then Blue dragon did.
