bbsin said:
I have the same amount of proof as you, no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors. I am just going by what i interpret when i see that Sony, for some reason, continuously land FF7 games or movies on their side. Like i said, it may be back door politics and if it is, no one really knows what kind of agreement they have made in the past. But the logical move would have been to move away from Sony consoles to get as much as $ as possible using their number 1 money maker. S-E obviously has been in bed with Sony, there's no other way to explain the reasoning behind all their high budget games being put on Sony platforms. Oh yeah, there's also the fact that Sony owns about 8% stakes in S-E and helped make them into the huge company that they are today. I wouldn't be surpirsed if Sony knows exactly what properties S-E is developing before everyone else, and is always the first to get a chance bid or strike a deal... hell, that's probably why they have 8% in the first place. Anways, the question boils down to this: Does Sony have a deal in place to keep FF7 games on their platform?? No one has solid proof to officially say yes or no, but by the way the evidence looks, i don't see Square bringing FF7 to anyother platform (except cellphone) to anything else but Sony and i think the reasoning behind that is because Sony wants it that way whether they are convincing S-E or it's their decision.
EDIT: @Whitedevil: I'm not questioning the exclusivity of the future SE games. There's enough threads about FF13 going multiplatform on the web. My point is on the FF7 franchise and I think Sony is clearly influencing where that property ends up. Sony publishing FF7 for U.S and Europe was a HUGE deal, and it ultimately helped SquareSoft more than it did for Sony. Sony might not have a solid deal that allows them the rights to the FF7 franchise, but it's pretty obvious that they (sony) have a voice in the company or in terms of the FF7 franchise and apparently S-E listens. |
I've made a couple comments half jokingly bringing up the possibility Sony may have dibs on FF7, but I think it's time to look at reality here. Square was not a small company when FF7 was relased, and quite frankly at that point, Sony would be going all out to keep them happy. I highly doubt a company with as conservative a business policy as Square would so liberally throw the IP rights to one of their biggest games (and it would've been huge even if it was only Japan). Fact is, nobody knows what happens a decade down the line, and that is even more true in the videogame business than most others. There is no way in hell Square would give away the rights to anything other than the original intent: publishing rights for FFVII on the Playstation one in NA/Europe.
