Sony 'disappointed' by FFXIII for 360 announcement

[Shrygue]

via Joystiq


SCEA president Jack Tretton has aired his feelings on Square Enix's decision to nix PS3 exclusivity for Final Fantasy XIII. During a roundtable chat this morning, Tretton said that he was disappointed by the decision, but not exactly caught off guard.

"Am I disappointed by it? Yes," Tretton told us, adding: "Am I surprised by it? No." He was quick to stress that the game remains a PS3 exclusive in Japan, but that "seeing as there isn't that big of a [PS3] installed base in [there], I don't know how big of a coup that is for us."

Speaking to the concept of paying third parties for exclusives, Tretton said that Sony has "invested so much money in the [PS3] hardware" that it simply "can't write checks for exclusive software."

Echoing statements made by Sony Worlwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida prior to E3, Tretton said that Sony's is more focused on exclusive titles from its own teams. "You've got to create platform-defining franchises that you own," he said. "It's the only way you're going to guarantee exclusivity going forward."

[mcdougall57]

Sony has "invested so much money in the [PS3] hardware" that it simply "can't write checks for exclusive software."

It's too bad Microsoft can and have.

[JKKDARK]

haha, it was the last big exclusive title the PS3 had :rofl:

[mcdougall57]

haha, it was the last big exclusive title the PS3 had :rofl:

I thought Killzone was meant to be a "big" exclusive aswell?

[Accordion]

fact remains, SCE still has the most robust, diverse, and talented first party developers.

[mcdougall57]

fact remains, SCE still has the most robust, diverse, and talented first party developers.

That may be true but neither have a developer like Shigeru Miyamoto.

[JKKDARK]

fact remains, SCE still has the most robust, diverse, and talented first party developers.

The only successful franchise they had is Gran Turismo.

[goity]

The only successful franchise they had is Gran Turismo.

Comes pretty rich from a fanboy whose favourite console is famous for only having Halo, a game which always ends up on PC anyway.
Oh, and games that are released on PC hardly count as exclusive, so that counts pretty much everything else out.

[Napalm-Death]

Comes pretty rich from a fanboy whose favourite console is famous for only having Halo, a game which always ends up on PC anyway.
Oh, and games that are released on PC hardly count as exclusive, so that counts pretty much everything else out.

Yeah, you tell him/her/it!

I'm disappointed by this news as well, but I'll live as long as I don't have to suffer with a watered down version of the game thanks to M$.

[DPyro]

Thanks to MS, FFXIII will probably be delayed another year.