Akvod said:
This isn't a thread to chastise Square Enix's decision to back the 360, or tell it that it has no right to. They obviously can do whatever they want, and I personally believe that they're only hurting themselves for their fanatical support for the 360.
Square Enix's goal is to make money, and thus their action's are fueled to fufil that purpose. However I do not understand why Square Enix is making decisions that simply don't make sense in any way at all.
One of their arguments was that they want to get into the American market.
It's always a good idea to try to tap a huge market, but why did they conclude to not release a single PS3 game? Is the PS3 not in the States? Haven't many early PS3 owners buy the console with the assumption that SE will release games on that console? Do they believe that MS will refuse to let a JRPG go on their console if it's not an exclusive? Is MS promissing to use their well oiled marketing machine to push the games (which didn't seem to be fuffiled)? Perhaps they simply were too optimistic, or made a mistake? Then why do they continue to be one of the biggest 3'rd party developers in the gaming industry that has not released a single game on the PS3?
Their other argument is that multi-platform=profit. If so, this completely baffles me, as they haven't followed that very logical strategy. They haven't released their games on as many platforms as they can to get a huge potential audience.
Can anyone please explain, without any fanboyism (M$ is paying $E off. Lulz, stop being so butthurt Sony fanboys), why SE continues to support the 360 with such frevor, without getting any short term benefits, nor a long term benefit in sight?
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