Talk:Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation/@comment-25360704-20181207012333

Here's my possible theories why Ace Combat 6 went became an Xbox 360 exclusive and not on the PlayStation 3. This is my possible theories why Ace Combat 6 was released exclusively for the Xbox 360 console rather than the expected PlayStation 3, which the fans want it. The PS3 will not get an Ace Combat game for a few years until Assault Horizon and Infinity (the latter of which the servers are closed).
 * Microsoft paid Bandai Namco to get AC6, a Xbox 360 exclusivity. Microsoft was in the middle of a big push to try to penetrate the Japanese market. While Xbox is a big name in the western world, Sony is king in Japan, so Microsoft tried a attempt to unseat them by buying up a few Xbox-exclusive Japanese titles.
 * The PlayStation 3, during it's early life prior to the rebranding, suffered a disastrous launch, such as the price of the console (599 and most of all it's Cell Processor which the company designed themselves, was very advanced for the time but the architecture was very complicated and not very developer friendly. As MyNameIsFurii said many third-party developers didn't know how to program for the PS3 because of its memory constraints and just the way it processes things, for this reason many third party devs dropped it in favour of the 360 at launch or even some developers kept making games for the PS2 instead (it's probably one of the reasons why it was a huge success that it stayed almost 14 years).