shanbcn on 15 October 2009
| Luney Tune said: I doubt Sony owns the IP. It's actually fairly uncommon for a first party to own the IP of second party games. We see this every time a second party developer splits from the first party. Nintendo didn't own the Banjo Kazooie IP, Microsoft didn't own the Mass Effect IP and so on. It says "Copyright Sony Computer Entertainment" on the old Sony published Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games, yet Sony didn't own those IP's. Star Ocean 4 was a collaboration between tri-Ace and Microsoft, with Feelplus (Lost Odyssey) doing a lot of character model work, yet that didn't stop the game from being ported to the PS3. Most likely Sony have some kind of exclusivity deal with From Software for the Asian market that possibly include sequels as well. However the fact that Atlus is the US publisher may indicate that Sony have no control over the IP outside Asia. I mean what else could possibly stop Sony from publishing it themselves ? Microsoft likely turned this game down because it's a WRPG. They probably thought it wouldn't be popular with Japanese gamers. It's a real shame there's no 360 version. The PS3 version unfortunately only support 720p which looks ugly on my 1080i native TV. A 360 version would have looked a lot better (on my TV). |
Did you read this?
1UP
"While details are still scant on Demon's Soul, SCE Japan producer Takeshi Kajii described the game to Famitsu as a spiritual successor to King's Field, the From-developed first-person RPG that first hit it big on the original PlayStation. "I am a fan of From Software, but naturally that also means there are parts of their games I'm not satisfied with, too," he said. "If this was a new King's Field game, there would be areas we wouldn't be able to touch since they're part of the series; working together like this, we can try to make something really new."
I think this should have been enough but some people just cant accept.
