Kitase: Xbox market “important for us”; can remake PS-era Final Fantasy games for the Xbox 360

[Khuutra]

Carl2291 said:

Khuutra said:

Carl, are you prepared to watch the rolling credits for the PS1 FF games and let me know exactly who the copyright of the game belongs to? That would be near the end of them. I'm not prepared to, but here:

If the copyright of the programming for the games belongs to Sony in any way, that's why. But if the scenario, characters, and content belong to Square, then they're free to build it from scratch in whatever engine they want and then publish it anywhere, just like Konami put Metal Gear Solid on the Gamecube.

If the programming belongs to Square-Enix too, then it's because Square are too lazy to scrounge up a functioning PS1 emulator for the 360.

Right, I can finally reply. I tried earlier but picked a bad time, VGChartz moved server...

Anyway. I found the credits for 7 on YouTube but couldn't be bothered to watch them all the way through. I skipped bit by bit and didn't see anything about Copyright so... I have no idea.

If Square/Squeenix own(ed) the copyright, then wouldn't Sony's publishing have something to do with the game being on other platforms? We could use Mass Effect this generation as an example. The original was published by Microsoft, the 2nd wasn't... The original simply wasn't allowed on the PS3 because of this.

Another thing I'm not sure on - Rare games on the N64 that are on the 360. I'll use Banjo Kazooie as my example here. Rare developed it, Nintendo published it... Yet it's on the 360. How?

When you've answered that, can you answer me this please? If Rare could get Banjo on the 360, why couldn't/can't they get GoldenEye on the 360?

I really don't know much at all about this subject

Microsoft owns part of the copyright for the first Mass Effect because they actuall funded the development of it. It's kind of a different ballgame.

Nintendo doesn't own copyright for original Rare properties, just the parts of Nitnendo games that were in them.