Amazon US November monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion.

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Madword said:

Abun said:

No,no and no.Please checkyour facts.Square nor CD ever said that MS is funding the game or publishing it.Amazon has Square listed as the publisher and so does every other site.Stop giving MS credit for something that they did not do and admit that they just money hatted the game because of their lack of exclusive franchise ownership.

If MS funded the game in the way it sounds then it wouldnt be coming out on PS4 at all.

What it could mean is that SE was over budget and did a deal for timed exclusivity and then that helped pay for continued development... different angle to come from. :D

Definitely sounds like what happened, especially considering it took the next gen versions for the original to become profitable.  They probably shopped around timed exclusivity to Sony and MS.  Sony would have passed on it since the PS3+PS4 outsold the 360+XBO versions by so much it would have been wasted money.  MS needed more exclusives to pad out their line up this year, so jumped at the chance.  Of course, bad buzz and poor pre-order numbers led them to announce the PS4 version a year before it even launches.  Before the XBO version even launched.