Nintendo banned Square from their offices for 10 years after FFVII went to PlayStation. EDIT: japanese business model is akin to Yakuza

[DonFerrari]

Hynad said:

padib said:

What sources do you have that Nintendo's greedy policies has any effect on Square? You must've forgotten that Nintendo essentially took all the risk of publishing ALL the final fantasies in the US. How greedy, really.

It's curious that you lecture me about seeing one side of the coin, yet here you are doing the same. It's curious how you lecture Rol about not providing sources, yet here you are doing the same. Perhaps it's time you stepped it down a peg, you're just as biased as everyone here.

How more predictable can you get?

Look it up yourself. It’s well established and well known that Nintendo asked for a bigger royalty cut than anyone else at the time. Even someone like you must already know that. And wouldn’t you know, Sony also published early Squaresoft games in the west.

Keep the wha wha wha coming.

When the "source" cited by Rol have it that the reason Square gone to Sony was that they were offering a much smaller royalty fee than Nintendo (not sure of the leap of logic to say that is moneyhat since that doesn't mean Sony gave money to Square, they just reduced their cut on future sales which aren't the same thing) it already show that Nintendo charged more, and considering basically all devs gone to playstation (when previously Nintendo demanded exclusivity or not allowed to release) with many being exclusive (probably without even a signed contract, just as several japanese devs don't release on Xbox and Sony doesn't need to pay a dime for it) show that for they it was financially much better (so yes the royalties play a big part on that) to be on Playstation than to stay with Nintendo and that kept being true for all console gens after.