Post by Jonah Falcon2M sales is 2M sales, and FF13 with 6M total sales is still not paying for
its massive cost. Square took a bath on it.
2 million? That's pretty generous of you to tack on an extra 50%
there. While you're right that sales are sales, the same thing could
be said for any exclusive - by your reasoning, there isn't a whole lot
of point in keeping games like Mass Effect, Alan Wake, Gears of War,
etc. exclusive, either - the several million units that Gears of War
would sell on the PS3 should be worth it, no? (Yes, I know it's
published by Microsoft - I'm speaking from a hypothetical.)
Your acknowledgment of the cost versus revenue for FF13 is accurate,
but that really only applies to FF13. There's certainly a not
insignificant amount of cost that went into creating the Xbox 360
port.
Post by Jonah FalconAnd stop making it sound like the PS13 version was good. It was just as bad.
PS13? You're jumping way too far into the future, buddy.
I at no point implied in any way, shape or form that the PS3 version
"was good." I simply pointed out that triple the number of units as
the 360 version were sold and that the PS3 version is universally
across the board considered a significantly superior version of the
game. Whether the story, the gameplay, etc. are any good is an
entirely different matter - but the presentation and the graphics are
definitely superior on the PS3 version so your statement that the PS3
version "was just as bad" is inherently and undeniably wrong.