FF13 on 360 and Sony cashes in on it behind the scenes.

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Kasz216 said:

Gazz said:

As many, if not all of you know Sony owns a small but substantial stake in Square Enix, 8.9% to be exact*. In a ironic twist of events they saw their stock value rise with 5.22%** today to 20.16 € and the fact that one of 2 FF13 (versus is still PS3 exclusive) games will go multiplatform to the competition provided that. I finbd it extremely funny that Sony seems to profit from the 360 fanboys who are indirectly fueling the competition.

* http://www.square-enix.com/jp/ir/e/stock/stockholder/

** http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=9684&m=BE

 

Either this is just a stroke of luck for Sony or a brilliant marketing plan in which they use their influence to promote the PS3 version as superiour and Blu ray as a nessecity. As the second biggest shareholder in the company they certainly carry enough weight. Shareholders (1 and 2 are the same) above Sony are both Enix for those who do not know.

 

One thing is for sure, 360 fanboys (like the ones to be found here) made Sony a whole lot richer today. Sony thanks you for that

 

Edit: wtf is up with the letters?

Eh Microsoft benefits off of every blu-ray disc sold due to winning the DRM bid.

So when PS3 won the format war... it made Microsoft a lot more richer.

Blu-ray DRMs probably are worth more then the one time minor stock gain.

I wouldn't think about it too hard.

 

 

No they didn't.. Sony is in the same DRM consortium.. they actually lost a lot of future profits..  they lost the codecs war... if HD-DVD had won Microsoft would have earned a lot more because of the codec they developed for HD movies..