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Kasz216 on 31 March 2008
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BengaBenga said:
Kasz216 said:
Onimusha12 said:
Sony owns a great deal of Square stock, I don't think Sony would allow it.

Around 8%. I'm not sure i'd consider that a lot of it.

It used to be a great deal around... 20%. However then they merged with Enix. Which was worth more then Square. So that 20% of stock dropped to 8%.

If anything, sony support would be do to giving sony the benefit of the doubt for pushing FF7 worldwide by covering the publishing costs, and helping when their movie bombed.


8% doesn't give a lot of leverage. Sure they have some influence as a major shareholder, but decisions of where games are going is not something the shareholders decide. Shareholders can hold the board responsible when things are going wrong, a few times a year, but don't have a say in the daily business of the company.

Otherwise: why would Sony have allowed DQ9 to be on DS? It's SE's biggest Japanese franchise.


Well that was my point... any such loyalty is probably more due to square employees feeling like they owe Sony something.

After all, Enix was the real winner... Sony owns 8%. Former Enix stocholders, 55% or so. I assume Enix stockholders care more about money.

Outside of that DQ9 being an Enix product, maybe someone would claim Sony felt like they had "less right" to it? I don't know, the whole "We deserve said game because of who we are" attitude is what got Nintendo screwed with third parties.

Sony really can't afford to play that hand stock holder or not. I think Final Fantasy games just appear on the PS3 because they've lost all semblence of good story and now mostly rely on visuals. Yeah they were on the weakest console graphically in the PS1 and 2 eras but the graphic levels were similar enough, and you needed the space CD offered on the PS1 and PS2 that Nintendo's consoles weren't offering. (in either generation)

While Xbox... well you know. Doesn't sell in japan.

I mean, look at FF13.  Everyone thinks it's going to be awesome... based on a short video where you find out the Main character is a female cloud... and most likely the main villain will be some sepiroth type character.  It's one of the most hyped Final Fantasy games in a while because of enhanced graphics and because a perceived giant leap back in charatacters and story telling. (chronologically.)