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Soundwave on 03 October 2017
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DonFerrari said:
Soundwave said:

I'm in my late 30s, I've been following "Playstation" since 1992 when it was announced as the SNES CD-ROM. I think even still have EGM lying around somewhere. 

Refute any of my points, it's well known Sony money hatted things like Final Fantasy in the past (and uh well continues to do so looking at FFVII Remake), why do you think Nintendo and Square had to go to the ridiculous lengths of creating a shell company just to get even a Final Fantasy spin-off? Maybe you should do your research, I've more than done mine. 

Sony is responsible for locking more content out from other systems for no good reason than any other company by a long shot since they've entered the business. They've done it to Sega and continue to do so to Nintendo and MS. 

3 points.

Nintendo had rules that the company itself couldn't release any game at the competitor during NES, not only a specific game.

Sony haven't had their unit top level come out to say the practice is bad like MS have done.

Why would Sony pay unspeakable amount of money to keep the game only out of Switch?

Yes, Ninendo had a lockout chip during the 1980s. Which they reneged on during the 16-bit era and Sega got many/most of the same games. So that was already a non-issue by the time Sony showed up. I've specifically said since Sony had entered the business they have engaged in buying content for the purpose of keeping it off other platforms. They largely succeeded in getting the 3rd party community to black ball Sega (especailly Japanese devs) for starters. 

Sony would pay for the same reason they've always done. They fancied the PS4 as the return to PS2 style Japanese market and started buying games like SFV and MH World from guillable third parties like Capcom to reach that goal, problem is PS2 market there is never coming back and Capcom miscalculated Switch not being a success. 

The moment Sony regained market leadership, they've gone back to basically their old ways of money-hatting content. I mean if offered right now, Sony could have PUBG, but they'd have to allow games like SFV, MH World, FFVII Remake, Ni No Kuni 2, content deals of a variety of Western third party games, etc. on all other platforms ... Sony wouldn't take it. Because they have more to lose than to gain.