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makingmusic476 on 18 September 2007
shams said:

I'm not dreaming - just quoting what I have read. This from "the-magicbox.com":

In a recent interview in Nikkei News, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada said the company will adopt worldwide simultaneous release and multi-platform development strategy for the next-gen market, the reason is to reach broader audience worldwide.

- 1UP reported that Square Enix will reveal a number of new Kingdom Hearts game titles at Tokyo Game Show, one of which will be heading to PSP.

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Now, no question that FF is their biggest franchise - and most important. And if this is their new "strategy", wouldn't it also apply to FF?

And I doubt its also coming to the Wii, unless its just a scaled down version - meaning both PS3 / 360 versions in development. Both machines are almost identical after all, its not *that* hard to do this. And if they need to release it in 2 or 3 discs for the 360... so what? This isn't even a slight deterrent to development.

@re Sony owning 10% of SE: So what? Any company can buy shares in any other company you know - its called an investment. And they usually do it when they see more potential for growth in that company, than they do in theirs.

There is a good reason why there are rules in place to stop a company from "secretly" buying so much of a company, that they end up controlling it (which is called a takeover). Sony do NOT control SE.

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SE are not stupid. If they decided to exclusively back the PS3, I think there would be a shareholder revolt - for "profit" reasons. Why target < 20% of the worldwide console market, when you could target, 40% or even 100% of it?


I do not think that they mean simultaneous releases across multiple platforms. I think they are referring to simultaneous releases across all territories, hence the adjective "worlwide" used just before the word "simultaneous". This would be in stark contrast to their past strategy of releasing everything in Japan first, then everywhere else a year later.

I think that their current "multiplatform" strategy is simply to make games for every platform, not to make one game on multiple platforms. They are working on handheld titles for both the PSP and DS, in addition to games for the Wii, PS3, and 360, the majority of which have always been exclusive to their respective platforms. Last gen, however, they made everything on one platform - the ps2 (aside from FFCC for the GC and FFIX for the 360), so this move to "multiplatform development" makes sense considering the current state of affairs over at SE.



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outlawauron on 18 September 2007
Malcom said:
There's no need to dream of anything. There's already a few SE RPG titles coming to the Wii and the XBox that we know of. With that said, a SE RPG.. it won't make or break any system.

If the rumor is true, then it's a dumb move from a business perspective simply because there's no guarantee of a price drop for the PS3, and there's no guarantee that Sony will sell millions of consoles in the next 3 months. Currently, you'd need about 30-35%, maybe even more, of the total PS3 owners to purchase [insert random game title here] to really see any decent profit, because after all, everybody gets a piece(publishers, developers, retailers).

If SE wants to put that much money into the PS3, then best of luck to them.

I think to disagree. Final Fantasy VII made the PS1. IT was lagging behind N64 until that game came out.



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makingmusic476 on 18 September 2007
outlawauron said:
Malcom said:
There's no need to dream of anything. There's already a few SE RPG titles coming to the Wii and the XBox that we know of. With that said, a SE RPG.. it won't make or break any system.

If the rumor is true, then it's a dumb move from a business perspective simply because there's no guarantee of a price drop for the PS3, and there's no guarantee that Sony will sell millions of consoles in the next 3 months. Currently, you'd need about 30-35%, maybe even more, of the total PS3 owners to purchase [insert random game title here] to really see any decent profit, because after all, everybody gets a piece(publishers, developers, retailers).

If SE wants to put that much money into the PS3, then best of luck to them.

I think to disagree. Final Fantasy VII made the PS1. IT was lagging behind N64 until that game came out.


Exactly. SE understands the market, and I'm sure they realize that while the ps3's current install base is rather low, it is their games (as well as others) that are expected to "create" the install base. FFXIII, MGS4, and GT5 are like the big 3 - the main system sellers that are supposed to bring the ps3 into it's own (along with help from games like Tekken 6, another big seller, and all the new IPs in the works).

You can't sell a game console without games, and these are the games that are epected to truly start selling the console.



joshmyersBV on 18 September 2007

@makingmusic476

Your right SE knows that their games will move consoles and besides FFXlll won't come out until 2009 so the PS3 has more than enough time to sell and who knows maybe the reason SE chose the PS3 to hold the exclusive for these titles is because Sony may announce a price drop or a new cheaper SKU.



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ckmlb on 18 September 2007

Rumors are coming true as we speak:

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Apostrovich on 18 September 2007

At least one reason they chose Sony is because of the blu ray disc.....I just got my new Game Informer magazine today, and there's an article in there that says Rockstar has delayed GTAIV for some reason, and apparently one of the reasons is because the game is buggy. Supposedly that's because Rockstar is trying to cram it all on one dvd, and they were holding out hope that MS would add a hard disk to every 360 sku in time for release, so they would have increased memory for the game. I doubt FFXIII would fit on a DVD, and I don't think multiple discs is that great an idea for a game that isn't designed for it.



                                   

outlawauron on 18 September 2007
joshmyersBV said:
@makingmusic476

Your right SE knows that their games will move consoles and besides FFXlll won't come out until 2009 so the PS3 has more than enough time to sell and who knows maybe the reason SE chose the PS3 to hold the exclusive for these titles is because Sony may announce a price drop or a new cheaper SKU.

There has been no annoucement of the game to being pushed back to 2009. It is still slated for 2008.



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Lost tears of Kain on 18 September 2007

rpgs are usually designed for more then 1 disc.... look at FF7 etc, put onto 3 discs yet was still fantastic



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Cobretti on 18 September 2007

not this FF shit again seriously guys. They are remakes. Who cares!! final fantasy has become nothing more then a remake after remake bunch of shit.

Make some new games dammit.



shams on 18 September 2007

From what I have read, there will be KH on both the PSP + DS. Beyond that, I have only seen speculation.

All I know is that the Wii fits the demographic for KH, and I would expect at *least* one KH titles to hit the Wii. I hope so at least - really want to play one of them, and I'm not sure about getting the DS one. Maybe.



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