Fbh
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Sony probably helped them a lot. If you are looking at Rebirth only I could somewhat agree with you. But if we look at the whole FF7 remake history I have to point out that Sony helped them with a very strong commitment for a 10 year trilogy plan that Square Enix maybe was not willing to make alone. And we still have another game to wait for.
What more would you want for it to be considered not a fake exclusive?
Maybe, without the details it's hard to know. But I personally doubt it
To me the only proper third party exclusive is something like Helldivers 2, Spiderman Ps4 (which was made before Sony bought Insomniac) or Bloodborne: When Sony (or another console maker) basically hires a third party studio to develop a game for them. If you are fully paying for the development of a game in an IP you own that's a proper exclusive, even if you don't own the studio that's actually going to make it.
Then you have cases like Stellar Blade which is a new IP by an unknown dev (at least in the west) with no track record making single player AA/AAA console games. That's a case in which I can buy Sony made a massive difference on the project and the game might not have been made or been very different without their involvement, so I think at least some of the credit is due.
But a massive multi billion dollar publisher like Square Enix remaking the most popular entry in their most popular franchise to a market that has proven multiple times that remakes and re-releases are financially lucrative? Nah, I'm not buying that Sony was fundamental in getting it made. To me that's a game that would have been made either way and released on multiple platforms, until Sony paid Square to not release it on other systems.
Maaaaybe the financial security from the Sony offer is what made them decide to milk it out into 3 games, but I'm still not sold that was the right choice.
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