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WOW...ratchet on the 360 as well as resistance?
that would be HUGE for M$
Revolution316
Sony owns both Resistance and Ratchet IPs
just like final fantasy and tekken?heres a skinny of why they were exclusives lets start with FF
Final Fantasy:The main number ones of 7-12 (excluding 11 which is an MMO) were primarily ddone on the PS platform for one main reason the optical disk.At the time of FF7 there was a need for FF to become more modern and transist over into 3d while its as expansive as the older ones which were before it the amount of FMV's made it impossible to put ona cartridge without ungodly production costs and this was a key in why we moved over to optical media as it offered far more space for a much much much lower price.Then the fact the PS2 was dominant last gen and there wasnt that much of a market for Final Fantasy on the Xbox so most likely Square didnt want to bother with porting as they had a big user base to play with.
The reasoning behind FF's exclusivity the last 2 gens was mainly technology and a loyal market for their games even at that the series as a whole was not exclusive as CC and a few others came out but not with as much commercial success as their playstation peers
Tekken:Dates back to the old Namco arcade boards which im sure were based off PS1 hardware meant easy ports of games like Tekken which became a success mainly cause of its simple pick up and play and on top of that addictive nature helped a lot, before tekken was released on PS it was massive in arcades i remember it as a 5 y/o kid getting tekken for my b-day i could finally play that game i played when i was on holiday with my parents.Also Sony had a hand in publishing a couple of them im sure most likely some agreement between the hardware similarites of the arcade boards and the PS1 architecture and hardware.(the same can also be said for Ridge racer and time crisis).
Tekken's a prime example of making a quick buck but retaining and even improving the graphics and various other aspects over their arcade counterparts, back in the day Namco had possibly the five biggest hitters when the PS1 was in its early days Ace Combat,Ridge Racer,Soul Blade,Tekken and finally Time Crisisall came from Arcade board games aswell....only ace combat has really become console centric from around 2 onwards.
On the other hand Ratchet and Resistance are controlled by Sony much in the same vein of Halo is controlled by MS.Sony funds in exchange for the rights to the IP at the same time means insomniac like bungie arent primarily going to be controlled and told what to do and when and are much more able to make decisions on time scales and dev time frames more so than a 1st party as the dev could just go meh and make a multiplat right after it.Its mainly bout appeasement on both sides.
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