| Intrinsic said: Just looking at these numbers, he does have a point. What square enix did here was hold the game off from the user base that gave them their most sales. Thats really all kinds of stupid if you ask me. Then again, I can see MS having paid $30M up front for this exclusive deal and waving off all royalty fees on the game for the duration of the exclusive deal. Its all good, just means I buy it in 2016 sometime, but since they have started this... it will be the first used game (and physical copy game for that matter) I buy for my PS4. unless they release it on PSN for under or around $30 (which won't happen cause then the PR spin wil be we wanted to take the time to make the best version of this game and we are hapy to announce that its coming to PS4 with all dlc included, this new game mode and bla bla bla.... so yh, $50) |
Also, what I think people forget is that fans can hold a grudge against you that can affect your entire company. Did you see the reaction Japanese fans had when FF 13 was announced for xb360 year(s?) after the ps3 version came out? There's a thing called loyalty which they don't seem to understand. If SE gets a bad rep, MS' money won't be enough to cover the rest of the losses from other games that people won't buy because they lost respect for your company.
I don't buy used games, but I don't see myself buying a new copy of a SE game any time soon.
