This is an article on the loyalty, or lack thereof, that has been shown by Capcom to the PlayStation 3 fan base and the PlayStation fan base in general.
"So here we have Capcom, arguably one of the best game developers of all time. The company has produced classics such as Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Okami, and Monster Hunter only to name a few. There is no question that the company has talent, but was it ever enough to propel the company to its success today? Hardly. Every game listed above hit full steam on a Sony console, whether it be the original Resident Evil series or Street Fighter Alpha on PS1, or Devil May Cry or Okami on PS2, Capcom owes a lot to Sony. However, the only thing Sony has received from Capcom is a lack of loyalty."
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Lying to yourself is unbecoming.
Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.
They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.
At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.
Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
it's so silly to think that they would care about one little letter, when there is so much money involve.
Interesting opinion... with it's limited outlook on the history of console gaming.
Fanboys make a big deal about loyalty but only when it comes to their console. If Capcom was big on loyalty they would still be developing everything on a Nintendo system.
Sure Capcon gave us the shatft without even so much has a decent reach around... But who care? Mh3 was the only game they had I was looking forward 2 now their going over 2 wii. They can keep their crap planet and I expect Sf4 will suck if they try and do 3d... If they do a 2d version it better be a cheep dl off psn ha ppl want a lot more than a crummy 2d game for their 60 bucks.
Yea I'm not sure if this is news, but all I can say is give it a rest. They did it to the GC and I'm sure they did it before and to other systems as well. Devil May Cry is a good game but by the 4th one I'm not to sure it's a big console seller so it's okay that it goes multi, Resident Evil usually starts off on one console then goes everywhere else, Monster Hunter.. well who knows maybe Nintendo threw a bunch of money at them.
I can only bring up GC because I remember that really easily. Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, PN03, and Killer 7 was a deal that Capcom signed up for making those titles GameCube exclusive and hmmm 3/4 of those titles are found on PS2. Did I hate them? No for I knew they can offer the game to more people and get more money to make more games. Lost Planet for the 360 was a cool game but for it being on 360 only took away a branch of gamers who could never play it. So now they offer it up on PS3. Much like Okami where it was found on the PS2 but seeing that the PS2 was so saturated with games it was overshadowed. Now with the Wii it might get the recognition they could of had. What most are forgetting is that all the systems are still getting games made by Capcom. They aren't just tuning you out they are spreading the wealth. Good time for gamers bad time for loyalists.
And thank you RadientFlux for if they were loyal along with every other older developers out there we would only be seeing Nintendo games.
Capcom owes more to nintendo than sony. The 8 bit nes and 16 bit super nes made capcom, konami, sqaure and so many other companies. Only a newb gamer who got in during the 32 bit era would say such nonsense.