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Fei-Hung said:
I think the whole FF thing has totally been blown out of proportion. It's not a big a deal as it sounds (maybe due to me not being a FF fan). Since the internet broke down yesterday I think you are wrong here.
Sony stopped counting on Exclusives when they made their statement about 3rd party sometime ago and they chose not to keep FF an exclusive.
It is sad though how everything else (GoW2, Fable etc) seems to play a small part now and how FF has started to mean everything to 360 fans to win a console war or a E3 conference. These conferences are meant to show off what the 1st party can do with their consoles and 3rd parties should come in second.
Sure, what utter nonsense. They have to sell their console, whether they do that with 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th parties doesn't matter at all. MS stole the show, that's what counts.
Having a Japan exclusive will still cause a spike in PS3 sales as well as a spike overseas. I doubt people will buy a 360 just for FF.
No they won't, they'll buy it for FF and the sh*tload of other RPG's that are coming to 360, of which several are exclusive.
The many people who have been waiting for FF are previous gen PS2 owners who also would be looking forward to other PS3 games. Either way, Sony will profit as long as the game sells well by an increase of share prices at SE.
I think you missed the part where most PS2 games are already on 360. GTA: check, Resident Evil: check, Devil May Cry: check, Star Ocean: check etc. By the way platform loyalty only counts for a very small subset of the customer. The majority of PS2 owners has stepped to Wii.
So what will it take for Sony to make up for it?
1) Confidence- say they knew about it and therefore have lined up several 1st party and some 3rd exclusives.
Actually they apperantly didn't know it forehand. Ouch.
2) Announce some new eye toy games
3) Give a release date for home
4) God of War 3 in game video
5) New jak and daxter game
6) New Genji game
7) New Ridge Racer
8) Tekken 5
9) Killzone 2
10) Resistance 2
11) The Marvel or DC mmo they have been working on
12) The SOE MMO they have been working on
13) A new team Ico game
14) A SoTC HD enhanced game
15) Next gen Wipeout
16) GT5
17) SOCOM
18) Exclusive SSX Tricky game
19) Twisted Metal game
20) Yakuza 3
This whole list won't even create a fraction of the nuclear explosion that went through the gaming community yesterday. Especially since there's not a single real surprise in your list. You can downplay it all you want, we haven't seen something like this since the Wiimote was announced.
They have a variety of options and they won't have to rely on snagging another console exclusive. As I said, it's no big deal, with Ff is just something for Sony fan boys to cry over and 360 fan boys to gloat over.
You can believe me and the rest of the world that Final Fantasy is a very big deal.
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