Microsoft Desperately Marketing FFXIII Sony Playing Their Cards Right.

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CGI-Quality said:

xrobx said:

Legend11 said:
They're just making sure people know that the franchise is no longer synonymous with the Playstation. Just like what they did with Grand Theft Auto 4, Resident Evil 5, and all the other great franchises that were once Playstation exclusives (or at least closely associated with the Playstation brand).

Got to hand it to Microsoft, they've done an amazing job of getting all the great third party games on Xbox 360 and breaking what was once Sony's iron grip on third parties. It's amazing to have come from the Xbox which played second fiddle when it did manage to get a major third party title (usually delayed for months if we got them at all) to now having the console that gets them day and date or sometimes months (or longer) before PS3.

none of those franchises were ever exclusive to playstation though. resident evil has always been on nintendo consoles. resident evil 4 was a timed gamecube exclusive. metal gear had already been on gamecube and xbox, and it started on nintendo, just like final fanstasy started on nintendo. nintendo also has other final fantasy spin offs and final fantasy 11 has been on the 360 for years now.

the only reason most people consider them "synonymous with the playstation" is because for the most part, that's the system people owned and played those games on.

- Resident Evil was born on PlayStation.

- Metal Gear SOLID was also born on PlayStation.

- For the past two gens, Final Fantasy HAS been synonymous with the PlayStation. Although XIII is coming to the 360, there's still one lingering that at this point in time, is not. This may be the start of a transition, although the numbers will do the most talking (like in Tekken's case), but Microsoft is trying their best to disassociate past franchises with PlayStation. I don't think that that has worked exactly like they wanted, but it has made an impact, enough of one to keep some people away from the PlayStation.

But there are still eople are still buying these things on PlayStation. For that to REALLY change, Microsoft needs these franchises exclusive somewhere. To me, Microsoft is mostly "getting a piece of the pie" rather than taking the entire name from PlayStation. Considering what has happened this gen, Sony's approach has is to make their own franchises, and stuff like Final Fantasy/MGS/Tekken/GTA will all be their heavy pushers of the past. The next PlayStation cycle will revolve around the next: Killzone, Naughty Dog Game(s), Gran Turismo, God of War, LittleBIGPlanet, Socom, Insomniac Title(s), ICO game(s) and many others.

But your forgetting that going by the HD sales numbers that the xbox 360 is more likely to have more past Ps2 owners than the ps3.....so those games going multiplat wont be a problem saleswise and the numbers do most of the talking (like in GTA's case)