Ouch for Sony/PS3

Not surprised by that at all.

 

What's surprising to me, and very funny, is how there keep coming reports that MGS4 is coming to Microsoft, even though 4 was specifically created with a Blu-Ray format in mind.

 

We argued a while back about how I thought this would go multi. I dunno. FF has a cult fanbase. I'm not part of it, so it doesn't make a difference to me.

 

I haven't been wowed by a FF game since 7. And I was like...10. They remake 7, it's auto-copped. But my interests wanes for any new ones. I sold 12 in a fit of boredom, and I beat 9 and 10 because they weren't too hard.

 

In all fairness, MS is doing whatever they need to do in order to compete and build a great library of games. Besides, people (including MS) tend to forget that many of the franchises that went multi were never exclusive to the PS in the first place. It just so happens that the PS2 install base was so big that publishers didn't feel the need to spend time and money porting to other consoles. Heck, even RE4 was a Gamecube exclusive for some time, and yet everybody assumed that RE5 would be a PS3 exclusive. With production costs nowadays, it may very well be the end of third party exclusives.

I do agree about Sony focusing on newer IPs. I just wish they'd have shown more at their presentation. On the other hand, I feel like MS is relaying too much on sequels and spending a lot of money buying exclusive content instead of using it to work on new IPs. And what happened to Too Human? Alan Wake? But they proclaimed that they will sell more 360s than PS3s in this generation, so maybe they have something else waiting in the shadows. Or maybe they think what they have is enough. We'll see.

 

I think the thing about FF13 is that it keeps the PS3 from being a need in the US and Europe for FF13 fans. I could not care less about this game, but a lot of people do. I did not realize that this was for US and Europe only, that makes it not as big a deal as Japan is where MS needs the most help.