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Spoon! on 24 September 2009
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superchunk said:
Manos said:
superchunk said:
Manos said:
superchunk said:
This is confirmed?

If so it is really stupid for Sony to make this exclusive. The routinely put their movie franchises on other consoles and MJ has way too much of a mass market appeal to force it on the PS3.

Seriously will limit its potential.

Should nintendo make mario-games multiplatform too? Keeping them exclusive limit their potential!

You're completely missing my point and obviously didn't read the rest of my posts.

Its not about making a SingStar game for other companies. i.e. similar to Mario.

Its about taking a movie/music IP that Sony owns and not using it in a way that maximizes the company's (aka Sony) profits from that IP. MJ is not a gaming IP, he's an music IP and similar to Sony's Movie IPs they should lease it out and make far more from royalties accross all platforms.

Now, if their long-term goal is to make money from SingStar first, then allow others, i.e. rockband, GH, etc, make their own games months later, then that would be a good way to do it as well.

I don't see any difference. Nintendo could make more money by royalties if they allowed other companies use mario in their games.

ok...

 

Sony is not just a games company. They own tons of rights to Music and Movies as well. They routinely lease the rights to these IPs to 3rd party companies to make video games accross all platforms, Spiderman anyone?

They could make them exclusive to Playstation but they don't becuase it makes more fiscal sense to lease the IP. However, with MJ, another non-gaming IP, they have decided to force that Music IP to be playstation only.

It has NOTHING to do with game IPs like Halo, Mario, SingStar, etc.

In Nintendo's case all they have is games, thus they must focus on their hardware/software. Kinda like Apple. But, in Sony's case they have a lot of other divisions and those divisions don't necessarily have to only support each other. Which is why I don't think I have ever seen a Sony Music/Movie IP being locked down like this before. It just doesn't make sense for Sony as a whole.

I'm not sure if they do routinely license music rights to 3rd party companies if the music is already part of the Singstar brand. The only ones I can think of are Abba and Queen,  and I think they are only Singstar. If you know that I'm wrong on this, feel free to correct me.

Edit: Oh,  and superchunk, as far as the Spiderman movies being made into multi plat games even though they are Sony movies, well, if you think about it, Sony doesn't own the IP for Spiderman, Marvell does. Sony may have the rights to make the movies, but that doesn't mean they have the right to make it an exclusive game for the Playstation brand.