| stof said: I have no idea what the hell SE is thinking when it comes to their negligible Wii support. Why make cheap to develop games for a system with a massive Japanese install base when you can make expensive to develop games for a pitifully small xbox userbase... and then port it to a slightly less pitiful PS3 userbase... DS and PSP successes have shown that wildly different platforms can have the same kind of success. All you need is a decent sized userbase.. |
Why make murals and do oil panting when you could make more money drawing naked japanese anime characters?
I would like to say that Square Enix seems to view the consoles as a medium and games as their art. They choose the medium that they feel will best let them express their art. I would really like to say that with confidence however I think it's more likely that they threw too much into Final Fantasy XIII and its engine to pull back so they're trying to make the platforms more attractive with more offerings (while still making bank on the DS/PSP). If they can draw their fanbase to the HD consoles then Final Fantasy XIII will sell well. However if they draw their fanbase to the Wii with various titles and then release FF13 on the HD twins guess what happens.
