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iHuGi on 08 September 2010

Are people crazy these days ?



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Jordahn on 08 September 2010
the_bloodwalker said:

SE needs to go multiplatform when they develop an HD game. Vs XIII will go the same route.

Their large development time and huge budget to make one of these games cannot recover all the costs with an exclusive HD console game.

SE cannot be exclusive anymore. People must acknowledge this


I disagree since quality exclusive games such as Demon's Souls, Heavy Rain, and Valkyria Chronicles have been successful financially while considering they sold less than FFXIII combined.  I picked these games as examples because they sold less than FFXIII combined while also being on the last place console (PS3 of course).  Also, these games cater to their fans.  And if ratings are a strong factor to some, these games received a higher average rating per title than FFXIII.  I'm not saying SE cannot go exclusive.  In fact, I praise them for going multi-platform with FFXIII when the 360 version announcement was first made.  But nothing you are saying holds water in the belief of the requirement of going multi-platform when making an HD game.



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leo-j on 08 September 2010
themanwithnoname said:
leo-j said:

these are japanese gamers saying this.. not western gamers.. so it's different..

 

if they lose the japanese fanbase.. they are fucked..

 

they dug themselves into the hole though, they keep demonstrating that they are behind the 360 more so than any other video game system this gen.


If people in Japan really wanted to play the other SE games on the 360, they would've bought one already. It's not like the 360 isn't available in Japan. They should go to where the games they want are.

if that were true, TALES OF VESPERIA would have sold nothing on ps3 in japan..

japanese gamers are not XBOX 360 fans though



 

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Acevil on 08 September 2010
NiKKoM said:

geez... some people need to get a life...


IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMNIT! (Wrestling reference)



 

twesterm on 08 September 2010
Jordahn said:

Without a doubt, SquareEnix is NOT the former Squaresoft who once catered to their fan base regardless of platforms.  But I hope the death threats are just empty words "spoken" by a few ravenous individuals and nothing more.


Actually, I would argue they are trying to cater to fans by getting the game in as many peoples hands as possibe.  The people upset over this are just a waste of space.



 

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themanwithnoname on 08 September 2010
leo-j said:
themanwithnoname said:
leo-j said:

these are japanese gamers saying this.. not western gamers.. so it's different..

 

if they lose the japanese fanbase.. they are fucked..

 

they dug themselves into the hole though, they keep demonstrating that they are behind the 360 more so than any other video game system this gen.


If people in Japan really wanted to play the other SE games on the 360, they would've bought one already. It's not like the 360 isn't available in Japan. They should go to where the games they want are.

if that were true, TALES OF VESPERIA would have sold nothing on ps3 in japan..

japanese gamers are not XBOX 360 fans though

Tales of Vesperia had a pretty significant amount of extras that weren't in the X360 version.

Whether they are X360 fans or not is irrelevant. The fact is, as I said before, if they really wanted those games, they would've bought one already. Acting like Square Enix has some sort of "guaranteed to support Sony products" clause listed on their website is pretty dumb when they're not owned by Sony. This is why you wait and see what platforms games go to.



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darkknightkryta on 08 September 2010

Wait I'm confused; so the cops knew internal affairs was setting them up?



Ajescent on 08 September 2010

Over reaction for the fail...



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Acevil on 08 September 2010

This is always entertaining, I wonder if Final Fantasy 13 V will be multiplatform. 



 

AOvechkin08 on 08 September 2010

I thought the protests on Namco's facebook page were bad but this just seems to take it to a whole new level.  Atleast the Namco fans were civil but death threats over a game is a little insane.