konnichiwa said:
Close allies mean nothing see the inflation reduction act as an example and the reaction on a global scale from it. Yes business is business we can't complain Sony paying Se while MS doesn't want to do it. |
Close allies mean a lot actually, a lot more than temporary trade disputes, Lol. Lets take for example that Japan was an absolute fucking mess after WW2 and America helped them recover economically despite the fact they were enemies and helped protect them from China, North Korea and Russia and still do to this day.
How is Microsoft choosing not to publish Mistwalker's 3rd title screwing them over? Are we also ignoring the fact that Microsoft literally helped set Mistwalker up with financial backing and funding of two JRPGs? They don't have to keep funding every single Mistwalker title if they don't want to and why did no other publisher fund this 3rd title from Mistwalker? Are they all screwing over Mistwalker as well?
I know people hate Mobile titles here but I'm fairly sure Mistwalker is doing Mobile titles nowadays as well simply because they want to and maybe because they lost their development partners in Artoon and Feelplus, a reminder that Mistwalker was not a development studio at the time and more of a creative oversight studio.
Platinum have said multiple times that they are equally to blame for Scalebound's cancellation and don't like Microsoft taking the blame, Lol. Shit happens, Scalebound was in a complete mess and Xbox didn't have money to burn back then, Platinum were given enough chances to get it sorted and couldn't deliver, I don't really blame anyone, I just think Platinum wasn't ready at the time and Xbox has a business to think about.
Japan support for Xbox has improved a ton since the Xbox One era, but when a Square Enix title skips the platform everyone loses their minds and acts like support is worse than ever, Lol. Ignoring all the series that have came to Xbox recently, some for the first time ever, that is progress whether Sony got it first or not. They literally just had a month where they released 4 Japanese titles straight into Game Pass, two of which being brand new to PS5/Xbox.
I don't really complain much about Sony's moneyhats, Lol. Don't care about half of the stuff they moneyhat, I mostly angle towards pointing out hypocrisy and say that ABK should pass due to Sony's dominance, and yes, Sony creating a market definition which is only Xbox/PlayStation does harm them because it paints a picture of Sony dominance which helps them drown out rivals, that isn't personal opinion but a comment on the market that Sony helped invent.
Xbox doesn't need to fund every single Square port, other publishers far less wealthy than Square manage to continue to support Xbox with IPs far less popular and do so without Game Pass. Square simply doesn't want to try to grow a fanbase and wants someone to keep paying them, cool, they can do that, but it isn't Xbox's fault.
People inventing drama between America/Japan over console wars is so...Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 08 April 2023
