Hiku said:
| Then after their meeting influential people from SNK came to our booth and said: ‘Hey Mr. Yamashita, is it possible to cancel our contact on PS4? Nintendo wants to work on this title on an exclusive basis!’
So these third parties come together and the team at NIS and SNK decided to go with Nintendo for the western market. Physical copy-wise, it’s going to be a Switch exclusive. PS4-wise it’s going to be just digital. That’s the deal. We will not release a packaged version for PS4 format. Then Nintendo will act as a distributor for this game. Then they promised to buy a lot of units. I can’t reveal the number of units they’ve guaranteed, that’s secret talk.”
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I was actually under the impression that it was illegal to do things that way (in Japan?), but now I want to look more into that.
Anyway, that's not the most interesting thing here. I'm a little bit surprised that Nintendo wanted to do an exclusivity deal for a game like SNK Heroines.
“We’re starting to do more on Nintendo Switch. SNK Heroines is not the only one. They support us in a good way. Compared to that, Sony is not friendly with small publishers like us. They just care about big Japanese companies."
I wonder what exactly he means by "friendly" here. In context it sounds like offers regarding exclusivity/publishing deals.
While I guess that's a negative from the perspective of a developer/publisher, I think it's a good thing for gamers overall that one console developer doesn't hog too many exclusives to themselves that way. But I can see why smaller publishers would want those deals, same as some of the bigger ones.
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Well, I noticed an error too, in that the PS4 version is getting a physical release. It's just that it's only available as a collector's edition.
