EventHubs caught up with Capcom's vice president of strategic planning and business development, Christian Svensson — also known more simply as "Sven" — to talk about the past and future of fighting games at the company.
While Svensson is very active in the community, you may not be aware how direct of a hand he's had in getting some of the titles you know and love out to the fans.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the recently released second part of the remake trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, won't be coming to rival platforms.
Being dubbed a PlayStation console exclusive for one year, many Xbox fans hoped that the beloved remake of the 1997 classic would hit their platform at some point. After all, the game ended up releasing on PC in 2021 as well. Earlier this year, WindowsCentral's Jez Corden said that he had tentative evidence that there are discussions about an Xbox port of the game.
According to Sony's Sony Interactive Entertainment's VP of second- and third-party content ventures and strategic initiatives, Christian Svensson, however, both 2020's Remake and Rebirth have been secured as console exclusives forever.
Yes, let's compare a 3rd party exclusive with trying to buy literally every studio and publisher on the planet 🙄
I don't see how validating OP's point with an example of another scummy tactic should somehow invalidate his point?
It's the point in general. I know said user was trying to be sly and attack ps. I was merely pointing out. Look yall can tripnif you want but if there aren't exclusives then what th fk is the point of said console. Exclusives serve a purpose. Been like that since early days of gaming. I don't see anything about exclusives that's wrong. Would I care if Sony made games for Xbox or vice versa no not really. I'm still buying Sony systems cause xbox simply doesn't get the support ps does especially in the jrpg community. Exclusives still serve a purpose.
These are awesome tactics for Playstation consumers! Giving their customers games worth celebrating....extremely pro-consumer for us Playstation owners. I'm so sorry xbox can't do the same for you, but that's your problem, no one else's.
Ppl like are part of this idiotic fanboys who thinks sony gives fuck about them u ruining gaming with ur fanboy
rambling make good sites like this toxic
@ Irontrike Peoples like yous is no brain persons u r only like Phil juice and facts hurt brain
Sony and the fans who shill for them are anti gamer. They get off knowing you can't play a game.
No more exclusives! Free games!
Anti gamer is exactly ms motto, killing off physical disc, streaming, etc. The orginal Xbox one was as anti gamer as you can get gtfo with that. They simply slowed down their tactics.
O boo hoo Sony was the first to raise game prices to 70 dollars. As if the whole fking world doesn't cost more now. Why shouldn't games. Games stayed at these same prices for 20 plus years. Anti gamer isn't being the only console out there trying vr, ms basically said they will sit back and see how the scene develops(this is Anti gamer)
Gaming is the only industry that has a certain group of morons claiming exclusives are bad ( because they don't have any great ones ). You never see idiots 'demanding' one company's products be available to all the other companies for them to sell. You don't see that with cars, clothes, restaurants, phones, tv or ANYTHING else in this world!
Go to a McDonald's and demand a Whopper.....or go to a Kia dealership and demand a Mercedes. See how that works for you in the real world. Exclusive products are what DISTINGUISH YOUR BRAND FROM ALL THE OTHERS. Their purpose is to get you to CHOOSE AND BUY THEIR BRAND. This is business 101 and is called COMPETITION.
You talk about getting off, the xbox fanboys were squirting everywhere when they thought COD was gonna be exlcusive. Xbox fanboys rubbed their hands with glee because Redfall and the great magnificent Starfield were exclusive! Until these games turned out to be shit and we all laughed at them.
So basically exclusives aren't working out for Xbox. You guys do have your exclusives you know....it's just that no one wants them, not even you.
Charlieboy333. Lol, that made me lol. But ye as much as people are going to say "It's not the same"... It absolutely is lmao. 🤯🤯🤯 29327;🤯
These "scummy tactics" have been around since before we had analog sticks. Stop crying just because it's trendy now. The trillion dollar company gets a shellacking and easily leads you to believe PlayStation is some dirty brand now, as if Xbox 360 didn't live off of third party deals. As if they didn't make back to back multi billion dollar publisher buyouts. It's amazing to watch.
Scummy? Helping fund the development of a game that was already playstation exclusive for nearly 30 years?
No different than gears remaining exclusive for decades... still to this day, though that might change one day.
Microsoft has enough studios to make these kinds of rpgs...
Sony prefers to support devs through timed exclusivity or console exclusivity over purchasing studios outright.
The studios have the freedom to not accept offers or in most cases VM make offers
So everyone is scummy for having exclusives? Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft? I guess it's even then, although Microsoft is the worst, look at what they did when they first created Windows and pushed out all their competition.
Not only that, it's not worth porting this game over when it doesn't appeal to Microsoft's core audience.
How are exclusives scummy? You must think Nintendo is the biggest scum bag of them all then.
Let me ask you this, say you’re in a competitive market and you don’t have time to lose consumers to a competitor or your business will tank. How do you get consumers to choose your product over what the competitor is offering?
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I have an Intel Iris Xe GPU with 128MB VRAM on my laptop... which is why I'm getting a Steam Deck OLED this Summer 🤣
I'm not exactly sure who it helps in the industry by not being on Xbox
- Phil Spencer probably
I can't help but feel like that is a massive mistake by Square Enix. Kinda crazy how they invest so much money in these titles only to turn around and limit its audience to one platform. Even though I have a gaming PC and it'll come to Windows eventually, I can already tell I'm losing interest in this franchise.
I doubt you ever had interest at all if this is all it takes to "make you lose interest".
Not true. I bought Remake. But having to constantly wait for the next FF is getting old. FF XVI still isn't on PC/Xbox. By the time it releases, the next big thing will have come out and I don't care anymore.
Sadly jrpg's don't sell on xbox. Hell, with the introduction of GP, not even shooters sell well.
U must have insider Knowledge what sells sony should hire u better yet Microsoft u could give them advice on what sells cos a trillion dollar company could use ur business savvy
I wonder who knows more.... The company worth billions of dollars or some random person on the internet.
Not really when several Japanese devs have stated JRPGs just don't really sell well on Xbox.
Ff7 is on pc. The sales weren't there for ff15 so why wouldn't sqaure take sonys agreement.
IF you have a gaming PC you sure can afford a PS5.
You don't even have to buy one new just give it a try.
its not a mistake. If you look at how many xbox are being sold compared to PS5, the numbers are very small. So is it worth putting resources into developing for a system that it may not sell well in ?
Sonys corporate shill fanbase loves keeping the experience from others... Sony owns them. Lol
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image.
Makes me despise Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite that much more
So much wasted potential
As common as it is today, it is hard to believe that there was a time where gaming franchises crossing over was just a pipe dream. Capcom broke down the wall, but they took the combination of some of the most unlikely of franchises and made it the norm.
Whether it was a colossal successful partnership with Marvel Comics or a collaboration with rivals Namco and SNK, the “Vs.” series brought unforgettable experiences to the fighting genre.
