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BengaBenga on 30 December 2008
Dgc1808 said:
Tyrannical said:
SE dropped Sony exclusivity when PS3 sales bombed. You can't blame SE for wanting to jump off a sinking ship.

 

What are you saying??? It has a better chance of selling more on 360?? Have you seen 360 sales??? And almost all of the posts I'm seeing here are saying "MultiPlat is the way to go for this game"....

You're ignoring the fact that exclusive games get more hype and that the worldwide userbase of the 360 is bigger and that that userbase buys sh*tloads of games. Also you don't know if there is a deal between MS and SE, that could be beneficial for SE.

Not saying it shouldn't be multiplat, but it's not necesarily the best outcome.



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Dgc1808 on 30 December 2008
Darc Requiem said:
BengaBenga said:

SO4 will definitely sell more than any of the 360 JRPGs so far, which means it will likely sell a million, which is about as good as the PS2 versions. Not bad I think. Definitely not a bomb. I highly expect it to be the #1 HD JRPG in Japan until FFXIII (HDJRPG seems to be a completely new genre).

I always see Sony fanboys posting that this is stupid of SE and that the JRPG fanbase is on the PS3, but if that was true the PS3 would have sold on par with the PS2, which it isn't. And worldwide the userbase of the 360 IS bigger and buys more games. Besides unlike what you're saying SO started on SNES, not on PS.

I think it will come to PS3 too though, but maybe only in Japan.

 

I've given up on PS3 fanboys at this point BengaBenga. I used to feel sorry for them but now I don't. There comes a point when you have to decide whether you are going to buy the games you want or you are going remain loyal to a an electronic device. It's obvious that several PS3 fanboys have chosen the latter. If you can't play the JRPG's you want at this point, it's not Sony's fault, third parties fault, or MS' fault. It's your fault.

I hope WKC sales well. I hope it sells better in the west in than Valkyria Chronicles. Which given the derth of RPGs on the PS3 should be selling far batter. Especially considering it's quality. I'd like see another VC or maybe a Skies of Arcadia 2. I want to see JRPG's do well. It's my favorite genre and I want to see more games in it.

I'm tired so called JRPG's fans wishing them ill. I'm pissed that there no Street Fighter 3 characters present in Street Fighter IV, but I'm not gonna turn my nose up at the game and potentially rob myself of SFV. If Street Figher IV does will there will be a Street Fighter V. A game that could very well feature my favorites from SF3. The JRPG genre has enough issues with deal with, particularly the unfair criticism in Western reviews. The last thing it needs is faux fans wishing for poor sales.

@BengaBenga

I'm tired of cutting Onna some slack personally. She knew we should bought her PS3 it was thin on RPGs. She posts crap like that in every thread about a 360 RPG and its getting old. It's not our fault that she bought PS3 because PS2 BC was going away in Europe. I don't like Microsoft, but I'll be damned if deny myself RPGs. I don't like Sony and it didn't stop me from snagging a PS2 for the same reason. Some times you have to learn to check your fanboyism at the door in order to get the games you want.

 

Beautiful Post.



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mrstickball on 30 December 2008
Dgc1808 said:
Tyrannical said:
SE dropped Sony exclusivity when PS3 sales bombed. You can't blame SE for wanting to jump off a sinking ship.

What are you saying??? It has a better chance of selling more on 360?? Have you seen 360 sales??? And almost all of the posts I'm seeing here are saying "MultiPlat is the way to go for this game"....

Since Star Ocean sells better in the West...I'd tend to think that the X360's 10 million unit lead in the West *may* help Star Ocean 4. Just maybe.

 



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Dgc1808 on 30 December 2008
BengaBenga said:
Dgc1808 said:
Tyrannical said:
SE dropped Sony exclusivity when PS3 sales bombed. You can't blame SE for wanting to jump off a sinking ship.

 

What are you saying??? It has a better chance of selling more on 360?? Have you seen 360 sales??? And almost all of the posts I'm seeing here are saying "MultiPlat is the way to go for this game"....

You're ignoring the fact that exclusive games get more hype and that the worldwide userbase of the 360 is bigger and that that userbase buys sh*tloads of games. Also you don't know if there is a deal between MS and SE, that could be beneficial for SE.

Not saying it shouldn't be multiplat, but it's not necesarily the best outcome.

 

I understand what you're saying. I just find this dude's Anti-Sony posts annoying. Heck I'm pretty sure I even remember him bagging on GT5's future sales...



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karimkassis4life5000 on 30 December 2008

it's funny because square-enix's excuse of putting star ocean on xbox 360 is that when they started development of the game the only available system was the xbox 360.

I own ps2, ps3, and psp.



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Riachu on 30 December 2008
karimkassis4life5000 said:
it's funny because square-enix's excuse of putting star ocean on xbox 360 is that when they started development of the game the only available system was the xbox 360.

I own ps2, ps3, and psp.

Actually, there excuse, which was a good one, was that only the 360 devkit was available to them.

 



 

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karimkassis4life5000 on 30 December 2008

come on it's not a good excuse they could easily have waited a year, and then make the game multi-platform.



mrstickball on 30 December 2008
karimkassis4life5000 said:
come on it's not a good excuse they could easily have waited a year, and then make the game multi-platform.

I don't think waiting a year on producing a game...Just for it to go multi-platform is a very good excuse.

 



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Riachu on 30 December 2008
karimkassis4life5000 said:
come on it's not a good excuse they could easily have waited a year, and then make the game multi-platform.

Perhaps they wanted to start development of the game right away and had no choice.  They could still put SO4 on the PS3.  They just need to make sure that the port doesn't suffer like the PS3 port of Lost Planet.

 



 

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karimkassis4life5000 on 30 December 2008

or the port of Eternal Sonata and Bioshock.