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jarrod on 02 February 2010
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hikaruchan said:
Bodhesatva said:

Sony published Final Fantasy 7, Tekken 1/2/3, and many other prominant games for third parties back in the day. I think it's unquestionable that they also did something similar for the PSP's recent surge in third party support. How else to explain an exclusive Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Metal Gear Solid, and others, when the system's performance is so abysmal? And of course, we have examples like advertising assistance for recent games like AC II, and so forth.

Sony gives money to third parties all the time. Even Nintendo does, albeit to a lesser extent. I've often felt that Sony bested Nintendo in the PS1 era in large part thanks to their wallet, offering generous incentives and publishing assistance to major franchises like Final Fantasy (and DQ and Tekken and others). It often seems that Microsoft is returning the favor, as MS is an even bigger fish with even more money beating Sony at their own "we will outspend you" game. 

SONY did not publish Final Fantasy VII,VIII,IX like NINTENDO did not Publish Final Fantasy, II, III, IV, V, VI or TEKKEN, 2, 3  on the Playstation Final Fantasy has been a 3rd Party Exclusive on Playstation since Final fantasy VII developed & published by Squaresoft, TKKEN is developed and published by NAMCO if they were published by SONY they would be 2nd Party exclusives developed by a 3rd Party and published by a 1st Party SONY paid for those games to be exclusive but SONY dose not have the right to stop them being published on other systems for eg Final Fantasy VII & Final Fantasy VIII are also on PC if SONY published them then they would not be on PC.       

Actually, Sony did publish FFVII and several other early Square PS1 games (FF Tactics, SaGa Frontier, Einhander, Tobal No. 1, Bushido Blade, and maybe some others) in America and Europe, until Square made a distribution with EA.  And Sony also used to publish Tekken in Europe back before Namco had their own publishing wing re-established there (through Tekken 5 iirc?).

That's nothing new or uncommon though, and many 1st parties do it.  Look at how Nintendo takes care of Professor Layton in the west, or how they're publishing MH3 in Europe.