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masterb8tr on 04 October 2008
crumas2 said:
Shadowblind said:
Euphoria14 said:
Big MS announcement will be Versus going to 360 as well.

Come on, it is expected it is not? We all know Square-Enix are the Judas of video gaming.

Nomura doesn't seem to like the idea of it going multiplat. Course he really doesn't have a huge say in the matter in Sqeenix wants to, but I can't possibly see them doing anything else to tick Sony off.

 

Last gen I would have said this would have mattered. But the PS3 isn't king-of-the hill like the PS2 was, so why would SE worry about it? You have to be way out in front to make demands of third parties.

 

IMO they would lose all the respect they have as a company. Sony owns like 8% of the company, they announced ff13 as ps3 exclusive many many many times, still it goes multiplatform. imo they lost alot of respect there.  But hey they want to make money, so in a sence its understandable. But here's the problem ,after they announced ff13 multi, they claimed that versus would be WW exclusive to ps3 many times. If they had announced versus multi at the same time as ff13 it wouldnt be as bad as announcing it now.  I would lose all respect i had for them if this happen.  Still IMO it could happen, square is the judas in gaming after all.

 



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FinalEvangelion on 04 October 2008

I really don't want any more delays of the game. It's not because of fanboyism, it's just I want to play the JPN PS3 version next year sometime.



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Darc Requiem on 04 October 2008
masterb8tr said:
crumas2 said:
Shadowblind said:
Euphoria14 said:
Big MS announcement will be Versus going to 360 as well.

Come on, it is expected it is not? We all know Square-Enix are the Judas of video gaming.

Nomura doesn't seem to like the idea of it going multiplat. Course he really doesn't have a huge say in the matter in Sqeenix wants to, but I can't possibly see them doing anything else to tick Sony off.

 

Last gen I would have said this would have mattered. But the PS3 isn't king-of-the hill like the PS2 was, so why would SE worry about it? You have to be way out in front to make demands of third parties.

 

IMO they would lose all the respect they have as a company. Sony owns like 8% of the company, they announced ff13 as ps3 exclusive many many many times, still it goes multiplatform. imo they lost alot of respect there.  But hey they want to make money, so in a sence its understandable. But here's the problem ,after they announced ff13 multi, they claimed that versus would be WW exclusive to ps3 many times. If they had announced versus multi at the same time as ff13 it wouldnt be as bad as announcing it now.  I would lose all respect i had for them if this happen.  Still IMO it could happen, square is the judas in gaming after all.

 

No Square Enix is trying to make back the money they spend on their investment. If you are going to be upset at anyone you should be upset at Sony for dropping the ball with the PS3. If the PS3 wasn't such a cluster f*ck and was as dominant as the PS1 and PS2 none of this would be happening. Exclusives are easy to maintain when you own 70% of the market, third parties know they will make there money back. However when you go from 70% to less than 25%. Third parties have to do adopt a multiplatform strategy if you want to make a profit off of big budget projects. FFXIII probably has the biggest budget of any on going game project.

 



Reasonable on 04 October 2008

If FF went full multi-platform wouldn't it push the release date back further? I guess MS wouldn't mind but that wouldn't be good for Sony.

On the other hand surely SE wouldn't want to look like such a bunch of greedy sods by switching sides all over the place? Although I gather they have in the past so...



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Skeeuk on 04 October 2008

microsoft jus this week sais they have no plans for ff13 in japan, i really hope the jaan release on s3 has english subs il buy it on launch or there abouts



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KillerMan on 04 October 2008

It would come so much later that it would not affect in PS3 sales.



OLDSKOOL on 04 October 2008

I'm not saying it's happening but it wouldn't be the end of the world or the end of the PS3 if FF came to 360 in Japan. Actually it would mean little in the overall scheme of things!

One day all the big big third party games will be multi platform but this won't result in the demise of Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo! It will mean better 1st party games!



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Million on 04 October 2008
blackstar said:
Million said:
On the other hand I don't think SE want to establish reputations as liars , we'll find out eventually.

 

 

sorry i have to disagree

having money >>>>>> having good reputation

 

 

So explain to me , how exactly a company would make money without a good reputation ?




Zuhyc on 04 October 2008

That's not impossible at all. They might even announce Versus going multi.



makingmusic476 on 04 October 2008
Darc Requiem said:
masterb8tr said:
crumas2 said:
Shadowblind said:
Euphoria14 said:
Big MS announcement will be Versus going to 360 as well.

Come on, it is expected it is not? We all know Square-Enix are the Judas of video gaming.

Nomura doesn't seem to like the idea of it going multiplat. Course he really doesn't have a huge say in the matter in Sqeenix wants to, but I can't possibly see them doing anything else to tick Sony off.

 

Last gen I would have said this would have mattered. But the PS3 isn't king-of-the hill like the PS2 was, so why would SE worry about it? You have to be way out in front to make demands of third parties.

 

IMO they would lose all the respect they have as a company. Sony owns like 8% of the company, they announced ff13 as ps3 exclusive many many many times, still it goes multiplatform. imo they lost alot of respect there.  But hey they want to make money, so in a sence its understandable. But here's the problem ,after they announced ff13 multi, they claimed that versus would be WW exclusive to ps3 many times. If they had announced versus multi at the same time as ff13 it wouldnt be as bad as announcing it now.  I would lose all respect i had for them if this happen.  Still IMO it could happen, square is the judas in gaming after all.

 

No Square Enix is trying to make back the money they spend on their investment. If you are going to be upset at anyone you should be upset at Sony for dropping the ball with the PS3. If the PS3 wasn't such a cluster f*ck and was as dominant as the PS1 and PS2 none of this would be happening. Exclusives are easy to maintain when you own 70% of the market, third parties know they will make there money back. However when you go from 70% to less than 25%. Third parties have to do adopt a multiplatform strategy if you want to make a profit off of big budget projects. FFXIII probably has the biggest budget of any on going game project.

 

 

MGS4 shows that FFXIII would've sold just fine as an exclusive, and would have made SE a profit.

It's just that the profit wouldn't have been enough.  This isn't about SE ensuring that they make their investment back.  It's all about maximizing profitability.