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

[Khuutra]

Carl2291 said:

Khuutra said:

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.

Didn't they also fund the development of the GTA Episodes? Or was that something else?

And does Sony publishing 7, funding the ad campaign and doing translations mean anything?

No, not unless they also own part of the copyright (like Microsoft does with Mass Effect but not the GTA Episodes). Funding, advertising, doing translations - Sony doesn't own any part of FF7 more necessarily than Nintendo does Monster Hunter 3. Those things on their own don't matter. Copyright does, and there's no indication that Sony has copyright for FF7.