Have Japanese Developers finally realized they need Sony?

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forevercloud3000 said:

Mad55 said:
If they learned anything it's that they should make more games multiplat. Vesperia sold alright in the us and Europe in comparison to tales rpgs that have been brought to the us and Europe on ps3. Star ocean actually sold a bit more according to vgchartz on 360,combined the it sold over a million. Eternal sonata should have been a multiplat as well as the last remnant. Japanese developers don't just need sony they need to do things a bit different.The sales they could get on other consoles by making the games multiplat is a better option that just sticking to one console exclusively.

The thing is Japanese developers struggle enough getting a game on one consoles, putting it on multiple ones cannot be lucrative. It cost money still to put things on multiple platforms, so many fees attached to it that most don't recognize. Why not just target the LARGEST demographic for your fanbase and save yourself the headache?  Final Fantasy XIII...... honestly I whole heartedly believe the game would have sold exactly the same had it been exclusive, perk being a more refined product and less production cost.

The worst thing introduced this generation is that idea that every game should/needs to be multiplat in order to be successful. Its a sham, and always has been. A self fullfilling prophecy. By SquareEnix, Rockstar, Capcom taking this bait and making their games multiplat they set off a chain reaction. Splintering fanbases across all systems, which doomed the rest of the generation to HAVE to make everything multiplat in order to even break even. Unfortunate truth is this is bad business for most developers out there, hence more studios have closed this gen than in any other. Especially the Japanese studios. They were mostly comprised of Mid sized teams. Ubisoft, EA, Activision have only been able to produce these AAA multiplat because they have 500+ employees churning them out.

Japanese devs in particular need to concentrate on one console, the ones with the highest concentration of their theoretical fanbase. Namco learned this with Tales, SE even understands this now although they keep chasing the pipe dream of mobile sustaining them. I will bet money.....that MGSV sells less(or just about equal to) than MGS4. MGS4 sold on par with its predecessors on a system with half the userbase. Persona 4 Golden......sold almost the same as what it did on PS2 on PSVita. This is saying something. Follow the largest "fanbase" not the "userbase". Chasing the userbase leads to companies being spread so thin that the product is not even worth it anymore.

By that mentality, Final Fantasy 7 would have sold twice as well if Square just stuck with Nintendo, since that's where the fanbase was....