Sony's Peter Dille: MS Paid to get FF XIII, Won't Drive Console Sales Options

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Sony's Peter Dille: MS Paid to get FF XIII, Won't Drive Console Sales Posted by XanTium | July 22 14:30 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From multiplayerblog.mtv.com: [QUOTE] Peter Dille, Vice President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America :What you have with "Final Fantasy XIII" is a lot like what they've paid for with "GTA." It's not an exclusive on their platform. It's now a cross-platform game. Sand I think if you look at how "GTA" behaved in the marketplace and how it drove -- or didn't drive -- either console, that's what I'm talking about. Consumers responded to "GTA" on the PS3 just as they did on the 360. And it becomes a bit of a jump ball. But it didn't rise the tide for them. And I think if you fast forward to when "Final Fantasy XIII" comes out I think you're going to have millions of people who grew up playing "Final Fantasy" on the PlayStation playing it on a PlayStation 3. They spent a lot of money, I'm sure, to get "Final Fantasy" onto the 360 but at the end of the day it's on our platform as well. Which is why we focus on, "Let's look at what happens when you have "Metal Gear Solid" on your platform ... when the NPD numbers come out ... I think you'll see the value of what a real exclusive title does and how it raised the bar for PS3 versus 360. [/QUOTE] Full Story: multiplayerblog.mtv.com