I agree.

Yeh, sony does have loads of great dev studios, but the japan studio just does odd stuff, like Locoroco and Patapon, when they should be making some jRPGs. Sony have just relied on SE over the ages, which is why they have no jRPGs this gen, because they have not stormed the Japanese market

I figured they didn't know because they literally lengthen the MAG demo (which was mostly CGI) and made it the show closer, which I was pretty sure it was going to be FF13 as the closer. Things changed at the last minute. Or for 12 hours as Jack elude to in the begin of the show...

What makes me angry is at this point they are once again focusing resources for another damn shooter when they need to remember that it was RPG fans that help put their ass on the map to begin with. They said it themselves, they can't count on third party exclusive support any longer. So why didn't they start putting money into your RPG division? Someone even said they should have bought Level 5 or Tri-Ace.

Honestly, I am one of the originals that followed Final Fantasy on to the PS1. Don't make me repeat history myself and following it to another platform.

Soriku said: Mistershine said: Soriku said: DMeisterJ said: Yeah, they were, as were the gaming industry at large, and probably MS too MS should focus on internal development though. Especially as the PS3 userbase rises closer and closer, multi-plats may wind up doing better on the sony console *cough* DMC4 *cough* and not make it worth Microsoft's while. We've all conceded that FFXIII PS3 > FFXIII 360 in sales, so I'm not too sure what it helped MS to do that for.   This makes no sense. Even if they sell better on Sony consoles, sales will be mellowed out. FF XIII was exclusive to the PS3 and was THE reason to own a PS3. Some 360/Wii owners could've bought a PS3 for FF XIII. Now that it's on both the 360 and PS3, those 360/Wii owners could stick with their console or buy a 360 instead of a PS3 for it. Either way, it hurts the PS3 no matter what way you look at it. But at least the guy's being honest. Looks like they're intent on proving to third parties that the sales alone would warrant exclusives (though it's not going all that great). Also, of course Sony knew. They're share holders and if they didn't know this then Sony could EASILY sue SE. He's saying that MS likely paid for FF XIII...and since Sony is a share holder of SE that means MS likely paid for FF XIII just as I expected not because they want to expand (though that's probably a case as well, it's probably not the "prime" case). MS is really intent on hurting Sony this gen, but the Wii not so much.   SE is under no obligation to divulge all of their business decisions to all of their share holders. If they were then MS or Sony could easily buy a few shares in the other and demand to see all of their pending contracts. Never gonna happen.   True...but I thought the company always divulges decisions to share holders? What do they tell Sony then who own 8.58% of them?

Possibly nothing.  While number 3.  Shareholders 1 and 2 are both i believe primarly controlled by the previous head of Enix.

They don't, of course.  It's just fodder so that Sony fanboys can waste directionless energy being angry at Microsoft instead of being disappointed in Sony.  If this issue bothers them, they should be disappointed in Sony, of course, since Sony dropped the ball on this after repeated warnings from Square-Enix.

Whether or not MS and Sony had a money fight, in the end it was Squares choice. To blame Sony for losing exclusivity to the game is stupid.

That's not the way it works, I'm afraid. They could only buy it if that would mean more value for the shareholders in the long run. It's impossible for Microsoft to earn money on a Square Enix take-over, so in practice they can't but SE. The 360 is not their core business anyway, totally not comparable with the Yahoo case.

poor sony. oh so disappointed in backstabbing evil square.

i hear the sobbing even here.

Ahhh boo hoo poor jackie boy....money grabbing sod!!!

That the FFXIII announcment was such a surprise is just proof that Sony are still a bunch of arrogant faceless twits...

They base their buisness on traditional japan style ethos...but forget that they are doing transactions in the western world...

Just because they were surprised by the announsment dosent mean that this is the first time theyve heard about it.... but my thinking is if they knew about it i would figgure they would let it leek out so that MS wouldnt have had such a big impact on E3