Noobie on 22 May 2009
| Hephaestos said: Solid Snake, these were + (positive) and - (negative) points to multiplat :p errrrr yeah I did forget to answer the question of the thread :p (oops) So, in my opinion, and after the list I made: I think Konami would benefit from a multiplat release, MSG had never appeard to me as a system seller before this gen, but because of this new status, I believe the exposure of the series has increased. Sure it's a niche game, but it's still by far the 3rd best selling PS3 game, so it can't be that niche... and the price of the PS3 will have on it's own prevented many gamers from going PS3 over 360 while ensuring they don't get both consoles (i'm an example these people exist), so I would not exclude the 360 base increase as nonexistent. In 2 words, Big value for Konami. For Sony, the deal pretty clear. Their own exclusives have failed to move significant amounts of consoles, and this franchise apparently does. It's also their highest rated exclusive, and one for which there has been much advertizement and much buzz. Retaining exclusivity by moneyhatting would be the smart move on the sony part... That is, if they intend to remain in the console gaming business. Their PSP is hacked as hell but the PS3 is unhacked... so their next move could be to do a portable "unhackable" console so to take advantage of the market created by the PSP (the competition of the DS is there... but as they are only 2 very different platforms I doubt they eat much of each other's market share rather than creating some). In this latter scenario, the exclusivity of a MSG5 will not make Sony benefit anything and would likely be an expensive endeavor (I would guess this game could sell and extra 1.5M over 4 if multiplat so count in a good 20M to foork out either in cash or by handling the marketing costs etc...), it is therefore very possible that the Sony Gaming division decides to let Konami decide on it's own with nothing more than nice words to try to sway them to the exclusivity. However as it is unlikely (but surely not impossible given Sony's financial situation) that Sony drops out of the console race for next gen, I think they'll try to keep MSG5. |
Anyother important thing to remember is that PS3 price is definitely going to be lowered in this yr.. so a new MGS game can again become system seller for PS3 due to more exposure.. and PS3 at a lower price point can attract new buyers
