Manos said:
I don't see any difference. Nintendo could make more money by royalties if they allowed other companies use mario in their games. |
ok...
Sony is not just a games company. They own tons of rights to Music and Movies as well. They routinely lease the rights to these IPs to 3rd party companies to make video games accross all platforms, Spiderman anyone?
They could make them exclusive to Playstation but they don't becuase it makes more fiscal sense to lease the IP. However, with MJ, another non-gaming IP, they have decided to force that Music IP to be playstation only.
It has NOTHING to do with game IPs like Halo, Mario, SingStar, etc.
In Nintendo's case all they have is games, thus they must focus on their hardware/software. Kinda like Apple. But, in Sony's case they have a lot of other divisions and those divisions don't necessarily have to only support each other. Which is why I don't think I have ever seen a Sony Music/Movie IP being locked down like this before. It just doesn't make sense for Sony as a whole.