Why did Square Enix stick with Sony?

[psrock]

nordlead said:

psrock said:

nordlead said:

Did I ever say they would sell better on Wii? It looks like all I said is it would make more sense to develop blockbuster games on Wii, which it does. Larger install base + lower dev costs = lower risk for mainstream games and potentially larger profits.

Pretty much any big "blockbuster" title has a big potential to sell more on Wii than PS3 or X360. Blockbuster titles by definition are mainstream. Look at blockbuster movies, they are mainstream too. FFXIII is mainstream and all of Japan (and the gaming world) knows about the game. GTA is played by teenage girls, and one of my friends soley bought a PS3 for his wife to play GTA, which is a blockbuster mainstream game.

In Japan, you are talking a 9m to 4m advantage for Wii, and world wide a 32m unit lead. Heck, 8 games (Wii Sports wasn't counted even though the PS3 got bundles too) on Wii have sold more than the best selling title on PS3, and that number is going to increase very soon. The Wii took the crown from the PS2, and could easily sell lots of games if 3rd parties actually put quality titles on the Wii. Just looking at the music/rythm genre, pretty much every single game sold better on Wii than PS3.

Can you seriously believe that any "blockbuster" (which also indicates it is mainstream to some extent) wouldn't have the potential to sell better on Wii?

But Norlead, FFXIII is really the only big game the Wii didn't get in Japan, they got DQ aND MH, what other franchise doyou believe they shuld also have?

First off, I'm not saying they should get everything, as obviously not every game will sell the best on Wii, and sometimes games are made for more than the purely financial reasons.

But, you are also leaving out a lot of big games (or just out right really good games) that could (note, not should) have been released on Wii. Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Pro Evolution Soccer (late releases killed the Wii version). Not that I'm saying they should have been moved over to Wii, but Resident Evil obviously had good potential to sell on Wii (as proven by 4) to bad Capcom isn't smart enough to make the Title screen work on the Wii.

I don't think Nintendo is such a great company to deal with when it comes to third party. Sony and MS probably help around to make these games, And these games are far from being "blockbuster" in Japan.

Fact is the Wii already got the most " blockbusters" in Japan anyway, they took MH3 already, they got the biggest franchise in that country, they just lost out on one, but you'd think otherwise listening to people around here.

Fact: If Nintendo wanted certain 3rd party, they could, MS did, they just choose to rely on their own franchises which sell more anyway. Look at this year, it was a huge letdown to me for the Wii 3rd party wise in Japan.