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ryu1976 on 04 October 2008

SUPERNOVA82, you are absolutley right.  Competition is good for the industry and good for GAMERS.  That's why I'm glad to watch sony faulter this generation.  It's meant far fewer exclusive titles, and more multi-platform.....both of which are just fine with me.



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Mistershine on 04 October 2008
LOL MATURE said:
Mistershine said:
Dgc1808 said:
If it's true then they[Sony] must know about it. If they didn't then they could Sue SE for misleading a stock holder.

 

 SE is not required to inform all shareholders of their business decisions.

 

 maybe not but i'm sure there is a contract. so they'd know anyways

Like they knew about FF13?

 



LOL MATURE on 04 October 2008
Mistershine said:
LOL MATURE said:
Mistershine said:
Dgc1808 said:
If it's true then they[Sony] must know about it. If they didn't then they could Sue SE for misleading a stock holder.

 

 SE is not required to inform all shareholders of their business decisions.

 

 maybe not but i'm sure there is a contract. so they'd know anyways

Like they knew about FF13?

I'm sure they did know about.

 



Staude on 04 October 2008
blackstar said:
@ blazinhead: i'm somehow SURE that MS will announce tekken 360 version
and i have doubts about KH3 but not sure

 

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gengka on 04 October 2008

if it happens microsoft will say yet again "we didnt bribe , they come to us because the success of our console"



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crumas2 on 05 October 2008
gengka said:
if it happens microsoft will say yet again "we didnt bribe , they come to us because the success of our console"

 

Why wouldn't that be true?  If I ran SE I would be all over any platform that could boost sales.  I'm sure executives at these companies are more focused on pleasing the 99% of buyers out there who make their purchasing decisions based on TV ads and what's in the store, rather than being focused on the 1% of us who actually feel angst if a title comes out on the "enemy" platform.  Business execs can't waste energy on something that has only a tiny impact on their sales.

Also, who here refuses to buy FF13 for PS3 because it's now going to be on the 360 as well?  That's what I thought...



blazinhead89 on 05 October 2008
Staude said:
blackstar said:
@ blazinhead: i'm somehow SURE that MS will announce tekken 360 version
and i have doubts about KH3 but not sure

 

SLAP ! blashphemy !

 

 

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Stats87 on 05 October 2008

bitbag?

never heard of them, what's their track record like?



Darc Requiem on 05 October 2008
makingmusic476 said:
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.

Are you so sure. FFXIII's budget is in the stratosphere. The games been at four e3's already and will be at least five before release. We all know Square Enix was budgeting the game for a system with Wii like sales not third place sales. Between the development difficulties and slow PS3 sales, Square Enix wanted to ensure a hefty profit.

 



ryu1976 on 09 October 2008
Reasonable said:
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...