Marc
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An article at Gamedailybiz spells out more bad news for Sony. Several large Japanese companies have publicly stated that they will be focusing on developing for Nintendo platforms while decreasing their focus on Sony platforms.
The report indicates that during fiscal 2007, Namco Bandai will boost its Nintendo lineup by 109 percent to 115 titles; Sega will increase its Nintendo offerings by 96 percent to 49 titles; and Capcom will bump up its Nintendo lineup by 5 percent to 20 titles. These same three publishers will also cut shipments of titles for Sony platforms (including PS3) by 30 to 40 percent.
Shipments of Nintendo titles are expected to total 26.88 million units in fiscal 2007 compared to 23.29 million units of Sony software. Capcom plans to significantly boost its Nintendo shipments by 81 percent to 4.7 million units, the report said.
At the moment the Wii is outselling the PS3 at 2:1 in the USA and 3:1 in Japan so it’s no wonder they are focusing on Nintendo.
Also Square Enix has said: “we have no plans to develop titles for the PS3 until sales improve enough to make the steep development costs financially worthwhile.”
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mk4_astra
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i would imagine it will hit the ps3 the hardest, they could still shift a decent amount of games for the ps2 and it doesnt cost much to make a game on the ps2.
i think the japs are actually having sex with there wii's
and i would get one if they werent gold dust
[Edited on 03-07-2007 by mk4_astra]
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luciaadr
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quote:
Also Square Enix has said: “we have no plans to develop titles for the PS3 until sales improve enough to make the steep development costs financially worthwhile.”
That last comment is devastating considering how close Square/Enix (now Square-Enix) have been to sony through the playstation era thus far since PS1. If the next "proper" final fantasy or dragons quest comes out on anything other than ps3 in japan, the ps3 has major problems. Doom-age.
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