Why Are Sony Letting Microsoft Bully Them Out Of Familiar Franchises?

[Squilliam]

themanwithnoname said:

Squilliam said:

They don't need to really let the PS3 userbase know that FFXIII exists, but on the Xbox 360 they do. This is the reason for the advertising deals. Sony has little to gain from telling people something they already know. Thats why it doesn't bother them because to them its not important. A lot of people already bought PS3s for FFXIII even before it was announced. Whereas the Xbox 360 has a large audience of otherwise WRPG style gamers which SE is keen to tap into.

I could not disagree more. The casual gamer who only plays games like Final Fantasy, will see the commercial and the bundle and follow it accordingly. This would be different if there'd been multiple Final Fantasys released in the past few years, but there haven't been. Why would someone pay $300 for a PS3 and another $60 for the game, when they can get a 360 with two controllers, twice the harddrive space, and the game for just $50 more? If FFXIII had a bundle and the exclusive adverts on its side, you could be seeing a bundle as successful as the 360's MW2 one from last November. Microsoft didn't have to do one for Modern Warfare 2 either, everyone knew it was coming out on the 360, but look how successful that bundle was. 

The game could've been a real system seller for the PS3 outside of Japan as well, but now it will be so more for the 360 because of the bundle.

Since when would Final Fantasy be casual? Last time I checked for the most part its the same audience whom bought the game for Final Fantasy VII minus a few who got bored with it, plus a few less of new people introduced later. If ~50% of the Japanese audience for the PS3 bought the game then how can that be a casual game? Most casuals would be incredibly bored with it. You have to actually like the series really to get into it.