Why do publishers and developers show obvious favor to Sony?

[Serious_frusting]

retroking1981 said:
People saying its Sony's reputation/calling in favours from ps1/2 dont make much sence to me, it didnt help Nintendo in the N64 era based off the NES/SNES success.

Also how did Sony save square/square-enix? Serious question. Didnt they have great success on the SNES? I always here it was part of the golden era (along with ps1) of JRPGs. Also didnt Nintendo save Square? From what I've read Final Fantasy was called such because Square was going out of buisness but it was such a success it saved them, nice way to show Nintendo their gratitude, leaving in 96 for Sony.

It was revealed today that Sony Computer Entertainment laid out a whopping 14,900 million Yen to Square (approximately 124 million USD) which will be used to make up for losses incurred on the recent Final Fantasy movie, and to further production on additional games. Sony now has a 19% interest in the company, becoming the second largest shareholder of Square's stock.

 

That is from an article i looked up. They were bleeding money hard from the FF:SW and needed financial help. Square went to Sony and that is the offer they got from Sony. This is before it was called square-enix.

I think had it not been for the enix merger that Final Fantasy never would have become multiplat. I am not sure how much sont own of square-enix but you can bet its alot less than the 19% they owned of square.

Just checked. Sony own 8.25% of square-enix