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SegaHeart on 28 December 2022
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Qwark said:
Jumpin said:

I agree. This whole thing is more or less a brand of “red herring” and “whataboutism” where they accuse company x of behaving unfairly too, rather than addressing the actual situation of whether company y should be allowed to swallow company z. Not only is the comparison irrelevant, but it’s not even comparable.

Final Fantasy isn’t a major brand on Xbox. Dev resources aren’t infinite. Sony and Square have a long term business to business friendship—so, there is loyalty there. Yet the assumption is being pushed that Sony is somehow bribing Square to keep their games off of Xbox when no such bribe is necessary. It’s a really bad argument on the pro-“Microsoft eat Activision and Blizzard” side.

In the end, the whole argument is straight up bad. The reality is Square Enix is a separate company, they’re not owned by Sony, and they’re not being secretly controlled by money hats to be exclusive to Sony, either.

It's also funny that when Square (or other 3rd party devs) makes exclusive games and series for Nintendo nobody bats an eye. I think it's absolutely fine though, Square likes having a close relationship with both PlayStation and Nintendo. Usually either of them helps them out with financing/marketing their big projects. Dragon Quest XI also skipped Xbox without any exclusive deal in place. The definitive edition launched on Switch first and after on PlayStation. So who knows what the future will bring since titles as KH3 also directly launched on Xbox.

Kingdom Hearts 3 and Dragon Quest 11 S is on Gamepass, Maybe Microsoft pays the biggest IP from AAA 3rd parties to put on Gamepass or the smallest of Indies like Chain Echoes. Though there is Danganronpa series not sure about the rest of the Catalog of Square Maybe they wanna sell without gamepass? But Octopath Traveller was on Gamepass and Square didnt mind?