Indeed it really seems like they should of just quit being stubborn and flasjhed them some cash. I haven't heard either way on kingdom hearts yet though.
cash or loan the dev like MS did with earlier tales game, the dev have to pay them back after the game is released anyway. Or be like nintendo, just pay for all the marketing cost in certain region like what they did with monster hunter trii, could have used that to promote the game and their system at the same time. Guess last few FFgames must have sold better on PS3 enough and this time around they got the cheapest system; they are confident that it won't matter if its multi platform either way.