What has gotten into Square Enix?

[Rei]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Mirson said:

hatmoza 2.0 said:

Rei said:
A week at vgchartz cant pass without a "boo-hoo why 360 and not the PS3, Square?!!" thread.

We need to make an official one.

 

 

Troll away

But Rei is correct. You see, early this gen, I saw a lot of PS3 fans praising Square for the FFXIII titles, and I always saw them listing those titles as big PS3 exclusives. Further into the gen, FFXIII went multiplatform and Square started to release 360 exclusives. Now, we see PS3 fans bitching and moaning about Square for the lack of Square titles in their consoles. Now you know how Nintendo fans feel back then.

And everytime I enter a JRPG 360 thread/news, I always seem to find PS3 fans trolling the game or SE. Blaming MS for "moneyhatting" and "betraying." For once, blame the people who's actually responsible for this: SONY! Early this gen, SE were criticizing Sony for the way they marketed the PS3. They never listened, and it bite them in the ass. If you want HD SE games, buy a 360. Simple as that!

I still like Square. Sure they're not as great as they used to be, but they still release good games.

Rei is not correct.  I haven't seen many who even want the recent 360 titles on PS3.  Though, those titles are probably mediocre BECAUSE Microsoft paid Square: more efficient for Square to pocket the upfront MS money, release something quickly, and move on.  If there's no up front MS money, then they'd have to ensure that a game sells in order to make money (thus they'd ensure game quality). 

Loss of SE titles so far probably hasn't burnt Sony much, that is unless the games would have come out better on PS3 than they have been on 360.  If Japan sales are any indication, the JRPG imbalance hasn't helped MS all that much.  JRPG's being niche outside Japan, and all.

As for XIII: it's by far the delay of the PS3 version that causes more outrage than the pure fact that the game went multiplat.  And, fans still look forward to the FF games on PS3: they're just less pissed at Versus.  Now that they'll come out at almost the same time, and all.  ;)   

btw, I do agree that Sony's sluggishness out of the box contributed to a situation in which MS was able to coax Square delay XIII and make it multiplat.

Anyway, Rei was trolling: he mischaracterized the most common sentiment vs. Square Enix around here.

 

I wonder if you've played these "mediocre" 360 titles. And the info that the game might be delayed came some time after the actual multiplat announcement, while the outrage on forums has begun right after the 1st few seconds of the trailer were shown at the conference. The game going to 360 made PS3 fans pissed, not the delay.

   And if you think I am trolling then report. Although with an avatar like that I wonder how you dare to accuse someone else of trolling.

 @CGI-Quality:

   I am talking about a lot of people. Most of "their 360 games suck anyway" people on the internet have never actually played these games.