man thats not true, as i said before i know this industry because i am pretty close to people who work on it, and sometimes the publishers release their games on just one platform to keep the good relations whit that company, even if u wont belive it there´s still partnership in the game industry because they make profit of mutual benefit, CAPCOM seeks to help SONY´s market share to grow because that way they´ll have a strong fanbase there, a fanbase that will follow then everyway they go because they have a relatioship.
FUCKING BULLSHIT!
Dude, you sound like an idiot. I nearly stopped reading when i got to...
as i said before i know this industry because i am pretty close to people who work on it
...but realised you were replying to what Chee Saw said and since he is right and your telling him he' s not i figured i' d read the rest and see what you were talking about.
Games are generally released on the platform that' s " safest" . Square-Enix isn' t keen to leave Sony' s side because Sony have established themselves as the market leaders and releasing Final Fantasy games on Sony' s platforms is safer than releasing them on Microsoft' s because they know they have a very large loyal Sony console owning fanbase. They can' t be sure that Final Fantasy would sell on Microsoft' s consoles and so would only release spin-offs or different franshises instead.
You say that...
CAPCOM seeks to help SONY´s market share to grow because that way they´ll have a strong fanbase there, a fanbase that will follow then everyway they go because they have a relatioship.
...which is idiocy. In the previous generation CAPCOM showed Nintendo just as much (at one point even more) support than they did Sony, releasing an awesome re-make of the original Resident Evil, then Resident Evil Zero, and then Killer 7 & Resident Evil 4 which were originally Nintendo exclusives.
The reason CAPCOM broke the exclusivity deal and released Killer 7 and Resident Evil 4 on Playstation 2 is because Gamecube wasn' t doing anywhere near as well as Sony' s machine and CAPCOM knew they' d make more money from releasing PS2 ports of those games than it would cost them to break their deal with Nintendo. CAPCOM went where the money was.
Right now CAPCOM have more games in development for Xbox 360 than they do for PS3. Dead Rising and Lost Planet are exclusive titles for Microsoft whereas Sony will get Devil May Cry 4 and both consoles will get Resident Evil 5.
Microsoft has (and will likely have until 2008) the bigger userbase and CAPCOM don' t know how well Sony' s console will sell due to it' s high price and how long the inevitable stock shortages will last (it was 6 months for PS2) and the high cost of development. Right now, Xbox 360 is the " safer" option.
Exclusivity deals made for big 3rd party games like MGS4 or Gears of War and while part of the decision will be down to how much money is offered to the developer/publisher, a bigger part is the developer taking into account which platform will yield higher sales. Exclusive titles generally sell in much larger figures than multi-platform titles too.