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Square And Nintendo, E3 Lineup
With E3 coming up on us fairly fast now, we're going to start seeing some of the larger company's expected lineups for the event. eToyChest has the titles Square/Enix will be showing off at the event. Gamastura reports on one additional title that didn't make the list; A collaboration between Square/Enix and Nintendo. From that article: "The application in question combines an email application with virtual pet-like interaction abilities, and features various Pokemon characters heavily. Although Nintendo has been relatively reticent to enter the burgeoning mobile content market, which is particularly active in Japan, it has recently started to enter the segment, with the recent licensing of ring tones and animated images for a 'Nintendo Mobile' service on Japanese cellphone providers, and now this announcement of a Square collaboration."
I think I read somewhere that you don't actually have to buy Pokemon games.
But, but... you've gotta catch 'em all, don't you?!?
It seems like Square is intenionally sabotaging the Xbox 360. All of their good stuff is going on Sony and Nintendo and just old stuff for Microsoft.
Why??
I can explain it to you in 1 word "Japan"
About half of all Square-Soft game sales happen in Japan, why would they support a platform with new content which has no chance of being successful in Japan. The reason the XBox 360 has Final Fantasy XI is because Microsoft paid them a lot of money to port it to their system; and Square gave them an exact duplicate of the PC version of the game.
The simple fact is that when XBox fans say "Who needs Japan" what they're really saying is "Who needs Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil or any game made by Capcom, Sega, Namco, Konami, Square-Enix, or Techmo." I'm not saying that it is going to happen, but if Microsoft continues to perform so poorly in Japan many japaneese developers will stop producing any games for the XBox.