RolStoppable said:
The reason why I leave Nintendo out is the same reason why I wouldn't put any blame on Sony for Bandai-Namco choosing the Xbox 360 for Tales of Vesperia or Square-Enix choosing the Xbox 360 for Star Ocean 4. These third party publishers didn't choose Microsoft because Sony had ripped them off, they went with Xbox because Microsoft provided a moneyhat. If your line of thinking had to be applied, then we both would have to agree that Sony had messed up anytime Microsoft successfully moneyhatted a third party. But I reject that for the simple reason that it's stupid to blame one console manufacturer for losing out on a game when another console manufacturer threw money around. Also, if you read the quote from Squaresoft's CEO, it's clear that it wasn't about a general royalty fee comparison between Sony and Nintendo, because what he said is that Squaresoft got a much better deal by Sony than any other third party publisher who developed for the PS1. |
Tales of Vesperia came to 360 because 360 was popular in the west. That was the era Japan was desperate to appeal to the west more. Namco felt ToV had a better chance in the west on 360. They were just one of the few that didn't make it overly gritty to do so like Bomberman Act Zero, DmC, Bionic Commando, Castlevania and the like.