Why do publishers and developers show obvious favor to Sony?

[Joelcool7]

darkknightkryta said:
You sound butt hurt on this (Insert you mad troll face). But seriously, Ubisoft supported the PSP early one when software was selling at its highest, same with other publishers. And that's when those half assed, misnamed, Prince of Persia games came out. Now look at the past 2 maybe even 3 years, there's no support from North American devs for the PSP. Sony probably paid to have Assassin's Creed on PSP or those Petz games. I mean do you see sequels now? Same with consoles, you make it sound like devs bent over backwards to get stuff on the PS3, yet I don't know where you were at launch, but games were getting released on PS3 a good 6 months to a year after the 360. They claimed "issues" with porting, which is true, yet when the games did release they were very half assed and makes you wonder what they did for 6 months (Except Oblivion, that came out better). Final Fantasy (A series from a company that would have been bankrupt if Sony didn't bail them), was announced as multi-platform for Microsoft's console, after years and repeatedly iterating the game was a PS3 exclusive. Capcom shifted development of Monster Hunter 3 from the PS3 to the Wii. Horii abandoned Sony and moved Dragon Quest exclusively to Nintendo. Capcom just announced Monster Hunter 4 for the 3DS, moved the PSP Resident Evil to the 3DS (I'm assuming that mind you but the PSP game disapeared). And I honestly havn't seen any Vita games other than the announced Call of Duty (Which can just as easily be cancelled) and that Bioshock game from North American devs. Namco released Ace Combat 6 (or 5, whatever it was) exclusively on the 360, a release that would have helped the PS3 in japan had it had a port. Namco released Tales of Vesperia exclusively on the 360 outside of Japan. Tri-Ace might have effectively killed Star Ocean with that 360 exclusive deal. I have a better question, why do you think devs and publishers havn't dicked Sony around for the past 5 years?

I was paying attention at the launch of PS3, alot of publishers including Atari and Majesco claimed they would not support PS3. Many other publishers said it was to expensive and their were issues with porting. Yet developers and publishers tried everything they could to keep support up for PS3. Your right a few projects went multiplatform just be glad they went multiplatform look at what happened to GameCube publishers didn't even bother bringing the games over at all.

Considering how bad PS3 performed the first few years the support was huge. PSP support was huge as well and PSP while not getting as much support today as it used to still is recieving about as many titles as 3DS. As far as I know since launch 3DS has less then 30 games, thats less then PSP recieved in the same period I am pretty sure.

Look at IGN's lists of upcoming games. Then look at how many games are coming this winter (Between now and January) you will note that there are around 3 pages of PSP titles, then look at Nintendo's and you will see about four pages as well. Very close to the same amount of software coming for 3DS as PSP despite the fact that PSP software has been selling like dirt and the Vita is coming right around the corner.

Yah I am a bit butt hurt. I did purchase a 3DS expecting to see software support which today is virtually non-existant. Obviously I am upset that third parties are ditching Nintendo when they never ditched Sony. The fact that UbiSoft who Nintendo claimed is one of their biggest supporters, UbiSoft themselves said they get dev kits from Nintendo before most other publishers they have a great relationship with Nintendo. The fact that UbiSoft would bail is extremely dissapointing.