@HappySqurriel
Majority of those consoles u named were epic failures of a gaming console. Thats y they all died off in the wake of PS1 and Nintendo. They are the reason y I think many were shakey of the CD format

at this rate Micro$oft are gonna buy SONY and Nintendo

 Why cant I compare them?

Both are/were showpieces for their respective systems and both look and play dated today.

Regarding DMC it was not an exclusive out of choice but out of necesity.

After the insanely good sales of the first game Sony gave incentives to keep it exclusive(as they used to do for all big sellers) with DMC4 the game started out as an exclusive yet the incentives were dropped by Sony so mid development trough it went multiplatform and it still ended up every bit as good on the 360.

MS didnt have to pay them to get the game, it was lack of lowered royaltie payments to Sony combined with the strength of the 360 that made them go multiplatform.

As for FFVII yes Sony STOLE it trough rather backhanded tactics from Nintendo(and Sega because at first the game was considered for the Saturn but Sega couldnt write the big checks Sony could), MS here did no such thing they didnt steal anything as the PS3 is still getting the game.

Case in point: Dragonquest IX.

A bigger franchise for S/E then FF is.

@Fishie
I dont know where u got that info from but it sounds like a blatent lie! FFVII was not stolen from NIN. NIN was suppose to put an adapter on their system called "SNES CD" also dubbed the Playstation but cancelled it half way in and joined with philips. Sony decided to join the fray and came up with their own machine. SE was already betting on this attachement for the SNES but after it was canceled it would take to long to go back from scratch. So they moved. Sony does NOT BUY EXCLUSIVES.

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 This is the biggest load of bullshit you have spouted yet.

Sega and NEC pioneered CD in consoles NOT Sony.

If Sony never paid for an exclusive explain to me how Square mid nineties found the money to move to a brand new office building, explain to me what happened with Canadian independant developer Park Place Productions, what they did with british developer Psygnosis.

Sony gave a BIG payout to Square to switch alegiance(at a point where Square wanted to put FFVII on the Sega Saturn which was doing much better then the PS1 in Japan back then).

Sony wanted to buyout Park Place Productions, an independant Canadian developer making sports games for the likes of Acklaim and EA, the owners rather liked their independance yet one day when they came to work none of their employees were there. They had all been hired by Sony behind PPP`s back for their newly formed 989 PS sports label leaving PPP unable to finish their contractual obligations to EA(one less Madden game that year) and forcing them to declare bankruptcy.

Psygnosis was a third party with good relations with Sega and Nintendo and one of the best multiplatform developers, they also had next gen(for that time) deals in place with all three(Sega, Nintendo, Sony), Sony smoozed up to them and bought the company for way more then it was worth in straight cash so that they could stop the Psygnosis games from releasing on competing formats, both Sega and Nintendo however went to the courts to enforce the Psygnosis contracts so Sony outsourced the games to crappy developers to make the other versions look really shitty.

There are lots and lots of examples like this about the loose Sony ethics, suffice to say if MS tried anything close to the shit Sony has pulled in the past they woulod be rightfully crucified.

Yet we have ignorant little fanboys like you here who spout outright lies thinking them to be truth.

 I like my steak medium rare.

Well done if its hangar and rare if its wagyu.

 You sir are either ignorant or a collosal idiot.

I think its the former.

Nintendo was NOT ALLOWED to use a CD attachment anymore after they first pissed of Phillips and then pissed of Sony(the Playstation was supposed to be the snesCD attachment/standalone console)Sony continued on to further develop the playstation after Nintendo shunned them and Phillips found loopholes in the Nintendo contract that allowed them to rape Nintendo`s beloved franchises for a bunch of really shitty games.

Um, i think u are the collosal idiot, as most of what u just said is what I JUST SAID. I just didnt say anything about the part with Nin being raped for exclusives. So how exactly am I the idiot? We just came to the same conclusion.