| HappySqurriel said: Third party publishers Loved the Playstation, PS2, Gameboy and GBA mainly because their rapid sales and large userbases made it easy to allocate resources towards these platforms and know that you would see a return on investment in 12 or 24 months; the Dreamcast (on the other hand) struggled with third parties because most were sure that they were not going to see a return on investment in 12 or 24 months; and the N64, Gamecube and XBox lived somewhere in the middle with some publishers seeing value and others being unconvinced. In terms of Sales the PS3 sits around the XBox and Gamecube but (so far) publishers have not let their expectation fall towards XBox and Gamecube levels. There are a lot of unrealistic expectations that the PS3 can recover to a level which no console has ever returned to after selling as poorly as the PS3. To a certain extent these expectations could become reality if Sony was agressive enough at solving its largest problem (its price) but we have seen little evidence of that. To a certain extent, I think Square-Enix is looking for a US publisher because they know that selling any game on the PS3 will be a massive challenge (as compared to selling a game on the PS2) and they do not have the understanding of western markets to handle it on their own. |
That and it could be a FFXIII multi-platform in America.
