Star Ocean 4 : questions.

[outlawauron]

naznatips said:

Shadowblind said:

benmanu said:

Shadowblind said:

naznatips said:

benmanu said:

mrstickball said:
The thing about SO4 coming to the PS3 is:

We've only seen a few 360 JRPGs goto the PS3: Enchanted Arms (which was by a dev that worked quite a bit on PS titles), Eternal Sonata, and Tales of Vesperia (soon).

The issue is that ToV was semi-inevitable, given the fact that Eternal Sonata shares the same engine as ToV.

If SO4 was to come to the PS3, the precursor would be IU to the PS3. And that hasn't been announced yet. Not a good sign for a troll like PS3beats360.

are you sure that tov and es share the same engine? because if it the fact, then why eternal sonata background are much much much much more detailed than tov's? If tov and es share the same engine, then es is using it better than tov.

As for the iu case, perhaps it's a rumor but i've heard it was somehow "paid" by microsoft.

 

More importantly Stickball is full of it, because IU was published by MS, making it second party (which he knows very well), and SO4 was not.

 

Wrong. Microsoft does not hold any publishing rights to Infinite Undiscovery. Square Enix bought them:

http://search.ign.com/products?query=infinite+undiscovery

http://www.gamershell.com/companies/square_enix_co_ltd_/492424.html

@benmanu: Yes, ToV and Eternal Sonata are said to have shared the same engine.

 

squareenix does not need to buy the right, tri ace was part of enix and is then a part of squareenix, all tri ace games'rights apart end of eternity (whose rights are for sega) are squareenix's property.

When you think about it, i did not except squareenix to give tri ace so much freedom that they can do games for another firm...

The rights to the games are given to the publisher, as its the publisher who funds the development.

Sqeenix can't just say "hey SEGA, I want the rights to End of Eternity" and expect to get them for free just because tri-ace has done games for them in the past. When Microsoft was still the publisher to Infinite Undiscovery, they had the rights to the name. I don't know how the switch went down (whether by transaction or by other means) but I'm fairly certain some green(or yen) was involved.

You're wrong. Microsoft holds the trademark, and that's what's important. SE may have been changed to the publisher, but Microsoft still bought and paid for that game, and holds all rights to it. http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trademarks/en-us.mspx

Oh wow, nice find!