THIS is really quite interesting...

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story up outlining the challenges facing the Playstation 3 as we near the start of what will likely become one of the most heated consoles wars to date.

Besides the obvious, delays, costs, technological set-backs, Sony' s also facing a pretty major challenge from its once faithful third-party developers.

I think that Michihiro Sasaki, senior vice president of Square Enix, summarizes the issue best.

" We don' t want the PlayStation 3 to be the overwhelming loser, so we want to support them," says Michihiro Sasaki, senior vice president of Square Enix. " But we don' t want them to be the overwhelming winner either, so we can' t support them too much."

He goes on to say that while he' s planning on developing the " most advanced Final Fantasy game" for the PS3, they still haven' t decided which console will get Kingdom Hearts, once a Playstation mainstay.

It' s kind of fascinating to watch the game developers try to tinker with the console balance of power through strategic game release. I suspect, it could very easily blow up in their collective faces. I' ve always held that the more consoles there are out there the better off the entire industry is. In nosing around this topic, I get the sense from the big three console makers, that they feel the same way: None of them want to see the others fail so miserably they leave the fight, they want to be first out of three.

Brian Crecente

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Well i wouldn' t mind having Kindom Hearts on 360...

Yeah, they need to share the wealth with their good games. FFXI sucked and project Sylpheed doesn' t look like a game that will be worth anything more than a rental.

Wow! now all they need to do is bring an actual rpg for the 360 not some star fox shooter! All I ask for is at least 1 AAA rpg from square!

that' s interesting, but kingdom heart dosn' t matrch the prestige of a final fantasy game, i think dragon quest is closer though.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... (I' ll stop there)

Not that I' m against a Kingdom Hearts for the 360, but I really hate it when a gaming series switches from one plattform to another, unless it is on a newer of one companies console.

I dunno why, but I cannot help this feeling.

Not that I' m against a Kingdom Hearts for the 360, but I really hate it when a gaming series switches from one plattform to another, unless it is on a newer of one companies console.

Well, it' s a smart way of getting fans of the series to go buy an xbox360. For me it' ll just mean I don' t have to buy a ps3.

This doesn' t surprise me at all. THe ps3 can no longer guarantee dominance this generation. Having so few launch consoles & the high price tag coupled with strong competition and dwindling exclusive support it would be in there best interest to show all the next gen consoles the love. Unfortunately could this loss of S-E exclusivity cost sony the war? I wouldn' t doubt it. Once S-E goes could the rest of the so called exclusive developers for playstation follow suite?

Kingdom Hearts would never be on 360, it' d be on Wii if not on PS3.

Kingdom Hearts would never be on 360, it' d be on Wii if not on PS3.

As far as iv read US gamers are more into Kingdom Hearts than Japs gamers, and if 360 wins the US, it would be good for buisness for square!

As far as iv read US gamers are more into Kingdom Hearts than Japs gamers, and if 360 wins the US, it would be good for buisness for square!

Kind of like how Dead Rising was focused on Westerners more so than the Japanese front.