Souls & Street Fighter, Which Community is Next?

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CDiablo said:

Experimental42 said:

Demons' Souls was a PS exclusive owned by Sony. Bloodborne is a spiritual successor that's also a Sony property. That's like complaining that Nintendo moneyhatted Metroid, or MS moneyhatted Fable.

That is a terrible analogy. DeS was Sony then the franchises' spiritual successor DaS went console multiplat, then PC and now back to Sony with its newest iteration(though the DaS2 re-release  is still multiplat.) A better analogy would be if mainline Final Fantasy(FF15) went back to Sony. Either way my point is there is a dedicated fanbase and a sizeable percent (I would say minimum 20%)of that fanbase is being cut off.

Cut off from what exactly? Bloodborne is not a sequel or part of an existing franchise. It occupies the same niche as the souls games, but no one has any kind of claim on Bloodborne that it *should* be multi platform. The game is a new and separate IP, which Sony contracted From to make. It is the same as Sunset Overdrive. Spiritual successor is a meaningless term used for marketing purposes to tell people that if you liked game A then you should buy game B because it's the "spiritual successor".

If you want to lump this situation in with RTR or SFV by calling it moneyhatting then fine, but you have to call all 3rd party exclusive arrangements moneyhatting. There is nothing stopping Dark Souls 3 from being made is a couple of years time. The only danger of that not happening is if Bloodborne is very successful and From decides, with Sony's help, that Bloodborne 2 is a more profitable prospect than Dark Souls 3. Time will tell I guess. One thing I will say is that the Bloodborne moneyhatted is a far more honourable and beneficial for industry and gamers moneyhat than either the RTR or SFV moneyhats. I don't mind at all if any of the big 3 moneyhat new IP, it helps the creation of new IP, which keeps our industry fresh.

If one day MS or Ninty Moneyhat a new IP that makes me drool with envy then I will have a choice to make: buy the platform so I can play it, or miss out. One thing I won't do is jump on the internet and cry about the unfairness of it all.