Entroper said:
Or you could spend 5 minutes trying to find out yourself before insinuating that he's just making stuff up. If you paid attention to video gaming in the PS1/Sat/N64 era, you'd remember. For everything else, there's Google. I swear, if Sony's PR becomes any more transparent, it will be invisible. "We don't buy exclusives, we earn them." There isn't a single part of that statement approaching something believable. |
If you paid any attention at all to gaming media 12 years ago you would have known this. It's pretty hard to provide an internet link for an event that took place in 1994, before there was much gaming stuff on the internet at all. Let's just say if you are currently older than 20, you should know this. If you don't, I'm sorry, but ESPECIALLY Square Enix was constantly being courted by Sony's deep pockets. After Yamauchi refused to make a CD based system he accepted an offer from Sony and Final Fantasy VII's platform was changed, with some nice subsidies provided by Sony to change the development of the game (which was already a year into development). Sony did NOT on the other hand hand out much money during the PS2 era, and since Jack Tretton wasn't hired by Sony till 1995 (and even then only in the sales department) he probably never noticed that the PSone was built on buying out 3rd party exclusivity.
