GTA4 was announced to be multiplatform before the PS3 ever launched. It's not exclusive because they tried to call Sony to negotiate an exclusivity deal and had to deal with Sony-USA. Sony-USA had to talk to Crazy Ken in Japan since you can't do ANYTHING without going through Sony Japan. Crazy Ken waited too long to seal the deal and Microsoft negotiated a multiplatform deal.
It was also mentioned, In this very thread somewhere near the top, in an interview that a reason was simply, there are not enough PS3's in homes for the game to reach its targeted market.
Sony Japan is Sony. All other branches of Sony have essentially no power.
But you better damn well believe they know inside and out what is going down. It's their business to know. Probably the only things they don't know, is each others personal lives.
I said Sony France not Sony. Isn't this what this has all been about?
Doesn't matter. To you, none of Sony knew what SE was up to.
It's relevant that Xbox declares third party games that could easily port of to be exclusives and Sony doesn't mark anything as an exclusive. If you want to ask if a third party game is exclusive to PS3, ask the publisher. It's better than declaring everything is an exclusive and lying to everyone... then again, maybe lying is better business sense.
But how is it relevant to our conversation? It's not. So they mark games Xbox only, like Nintendo, and Sony probably sees it better to save the ink money. Doesn't really mean anything in the first place much less to what we were jabbering about.
It means that there's no legal reason that it can't be ported... yet. For the record, they've been making a 360 port of DMC4 since the start according to Capcom.
What he said meant, just as it read. The exclusivity of FF 13 to the PS3 is in discussion. Will it be ported? Who knows but it isn't going down like 7, 8, 9, 10, X-2, and 12 went down. Those being ported were out of the question and for good reason. Now, some where eventually ported to PC but so much later that the exclusiveness of the games had done their job. I don't really think, considering PC sales of the games, you could call the ports sucessful anyway.
To me based on the number of PS3's on shelves and the number in homes, I don't see any other way for Square to make a buck with this "giant", because no doubt it's expensive to make, unless they go multi-platform. This of course is just my opinion and why I believe it will be ported. I really could care less about the game. As far as I'm concerned that series should have died long ago. Hopefully, over at Mistwalker, Ol' Boy can rejuvinize his RPG perspective for us with a fresh start.
By the way, thanks for not bullshitting me again. I like this conversation and where it could go however, the bump in the middle was killing any sense of a real discussion to re-occur.
