| MasterThief said: sony didnt capitalize on the ps2 dominating everything back then, they helped a lot of devs make games and gew some of them without asking exclusive rights or for the IP name. it was a mistake from them. bet you when the ps3 didn't dominate they were like "fuck I wish we had a tighter hand on these developers when they were small" most of these publishers nowdays are way too huge to control or collaborate with |
Nah but if they did then that action would comeback to bite them in the ass like it does for Nintendo today ...
If people thought Microsoft was draconian at the beginning of this generation then they didn't know much about Nintendo's past history LOL. Nintendo took advantage of their monopoly during much of the third generation where 3rd parties HAD to sign an agreement for timed exclusivity on the NES and they were strictly limited to releasing 5 games a year too. (it made some sense at the time since the videogame market crashed in NA but the biggest 3rd parties would go on to self regulate their own quality control measures just fine later on) That wasn't all but Nintendo was found guilty by the European Commission for price fixing and the founder of Namco once criticized Nintendo's monopolistic behaviour too ... (I bet the youngins at Namco during that time who are probably at the top ladder of Bandai Namco by now still resent Nintendo, haha)
I don't remember Sony ever preying on 3rd parties like vultures this much and we should be glad cause it was a lesson Sony needed to learn with the PS3 instead of having 3rd parties be dragged down with them ...
