| TheSource said: Sometimes I think Square-Enix bases the stories of betrayal in their RPGs on their business dealings haha. Lesson here: Develop internal talent to produce high quality exclusives that sell gangbusters.
Sony has more internal talent than Microsoft does, but the drop from PS2 to PS3 is going to be ~130m to ~50m-75m. Thats really sharp. Now look at Microsoft - imagine if they sold a similar number of consoles with 3rd party exclusives but then lost them all. With even less reliable franchises than Sony I think their fall would be even more precipitous. |
MS has enough money to spent on exclusive deals. Sony just can't mess with MS moneywise. MS could buy Square Enix, just because they feel like to. I mean 45 billion USD for yahoo. Square Enix would be a smaller fish :D
I know they won't buy SE, but they could if they wanted to.
*edit* there is just no company that could convince a 3rd party developer just with the money. MS pays just too good.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
