Konami’s Negligible 360 Support: Why MGS5 Will Stay on PS3 - Valid reason?!

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sparkit34 said:
lol, where did the valid reason go?

I hear arguments like the the user base for the X360 and PS3 (are you serious? 90% of the games are identical), that X360 could not handle the game ( lol, like that was not a marketing ploy), and that the sales warrant another exclusive (i guess noone took a look at the sales of GTA on X360). The last valid reason was loyalty (GTA anyone, Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy). In this economy, there is no loyalty.

Did i miss out any other valid reason? If the question was whether or not this game would go to the Wii, then ok, i would be just as skeptical, but right now, not developing an established hardcore brand on the 360 and PS3 simultaneously is just bad management.
Hell, the was things are going, i would be surprised if Sony does not start publishing its own games on competing consoles.

1) Nobody's mentioned the 360's userbase, everyone is just saying that the PS3 has more MGS fans. Which it does.

2) Try putting the blu-ray disc in a 360, and see what happens. Given enough time, money and effort, it could have worked on 360, but it would be a waste, because by the time the PS3 had launched, the game was half done.

3) GTA on 360 sold a million more than GTA on PS3. With exclusive DLC, and double the American userbase (NA being the location of the majority of GTA fans). How does this prove anything? The PS3 version selling 5.5 million units does not warrant a 360 exclusive. And GTA is a much bigger series than MGS.

4) Okay,

-GTA: It was never exclusive: http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=15060&region=All

It probably sold respectably on Xbox, and Take Two decided that the PS3 would not be able to get the 14.5 million sales that the PS2 could. Whereas the most an MGS game has sold is 5.5 million, which the PS3 is perfectly capable of doing, although not with this small a userbase, in time for MGS5.

-Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Square Enix. Need I say more? If Apple paid them enough, they'd make FF13 an iPhone exclusive. They follow money.

-Dragon Quest would make much more sense on Wii, it has over double the PS3's Japan userbase. Also, they must have wanted to spread their IPs out, and they had nothing on Wii. Dragon Quest 8 in Japan sold several times more than what it sold in the West.

-As for Final Fantasy, Microsoft clearly paid for that one. And it's not like FF had always been PS exclusive, FF1-6 were all Nintendo. SE follows money. Microsoft got it because they are trying to push more into Japan. MGS is nowhere near as big in Japan as Final Fantasy, which in turn is nowhere near as big as Dragon Quest.

So in short, all of those reasons are valid. But I say it could go either way, could be PS3 exclusive, could be timed exclusive, could be same day release. I'm leaning towards PS3 exclusive at the moment.