| makingmusic476 said: Well Cpacom and SE have rather disimmilar corporate strategies. Capcom ported RE1/2 to the N64 shortly after they were released on the ps1. They signed an deal with Nintendo for five GameCube "exclusives" and then proceeded to port most of them less than a year after release. Capcom screws companies over left and right for more cash. That's just the way they work. SE, however, is a different company. Plans for CC:FFVII and FF: Dissidia remained completely unchanged despite the DS's successs and the PSP's (at the time) failure. And then there are always demographics. Why does MH stay on the PSP despite the DS' success? Because they sell like gangbusters on the PSP, and the entire fanbase is on the PSP. If the FF fanbase moves to the ps3 for FFXIII, it would make sense to put FFVII on the ps3 as well, as it should sell due to the existing demographic, and increase sales of FFXIII/FFVXIII by bringing even more FF fans to the platform for whom FFXIII/FFVXIII alone weren't enough to buy a system. |
Monster Hunter Freedom Stays on the PSP for gameplay purposes, the game cannot give the same experience on DS due to limited hardware capabilities. The games were made with the PSP in mind. But the Monster Hunter series wil be on Wii despite being on PS2
Square "screwed" Nintendo fanbase by releasen FFVII on Playstation despite the releases on the SNES
SE chose the DS for Dragon Quest IX despite the release of the successful DQVIII on PS2 and the previous game released on PS1 (I see possibly a remake or sequel to DQVIII on PSP). Star Ocean 4 will be released on Xbox360 despite SO1Remake/SO2/SO3 being released on a Sony platform... they aren't that saint, you know
The games released for PSP are a proof that they want to keep the current customer on Sony's platforms happy while expanding to new ones, even returning to Nintendo's console. They don't want to be platform exclusive anymore.
The world of FFXIII was made with the possibility to expand to different platforms. They changes it so it can't become exclusive and expand to a lot more audience (Wii, PC, handhelds and Xbox 360 are possible candidates) with spinoffs or side stories. This doesn't rule out the possibility of FFXIV on a platform different than Sony's.
For the ones that say that FFVII can't be made with less graphics than FFXIII.... why didn't FFIV/V and VI weren't planned on PSP?... Never consider a game developer faithful to a platform because money and profit prevails over fanbase. To expand brings a lot more profit.
