Darc Requiem on 14 May 2008
| darthdevidem01 said: I don't know what possessed them to make it 360 exclusive..it makes no sense |
It makes perfect sense. The HD console market is non existant in Japan. Japan, despite recent trends, is still the biggest market for RPGs. MS, unlike Sony, seems to be willing to give 3rd parties money for JRPG exclusives. Taking MS's money guarantees the third party that the game will be profitable. Placing the game on the PS3 offers not such guarantee. Particularly when you consider that the PS3 is doing terrible in Japan. After the exclusivity contract has run its course, the third party can thing port the game to PS3 and no matter how many copies they sell on PS3 the game will be near pure profit for them. Meanwhile, MS hurts the PS3 while getting potential hardware sales to boot.
