Apparently it was losing them moneySurprised Pikachu dot jay pee gee
It was always shortsighted compared to developing costs nowadays. Probably means FF16 and remake trilogy going to Xbox and Im glad. I care about the series thriving and gaining fans, not a bargaining chip in console wars.People don't care about FF anymore outside of 14. People don't buy FF on Xbox and PC is just gonna take the sales from PS. Remake sold 1 million copies roughly on PC. Rebirth wouldn't have outsold it. SE is just an inept company that should go under.
LMAO man they FINALLY learned huhMore or less what I thought.
Sony didnt pay them enough?Yep
People don't care about FF anymore outside of 14. People don't buy FF on Xbox and PC is just gonna take the sales from PS. Remake sold 1 million copies roughly on PC. Rebirth wouldn't have outsold it.
Im aware that xbox sales wouldnt add much, but its still additional revenue. A few hundred thousand copies of regular or premium dlc edition is some decent money. Also Id say people dont care AS MUCH. Probably not resonating with gen z, even though thats the generation that loves their AOT, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon slayer...etc.If you're making a PC version anyway, Xbox is super cheap to develop. Basically all you have to do is recompile and swap out stuff like achievements for equivalent Xbox apis.
Xbox only gonna get part 3 of the FF7 remake? LolzThat'll probably still be exclusive to Sony due to contracts
That'll probably still be exclusive to Sony due to contractsRemake and Rebirth are Sony exclusives.
Honestly, unless they heavily restructure and revamp to take advantage of this, it won't save them. I imagine this, combined with their recent comment about moving away from volume on projects and canceling a bunch of stuff is part of their attempt at this. But considering they still have the NFT guy in charge I don't see this working out. Their leadership has too much of a disconnect from the product they're making and are more interested in cheap cash-ins than making a good product. (Not the producers mind, the board/executives.)
Pessimistic, perhaps. But I've not really been heavily enthused about new Square Enix stuff for a while, despite FF being one of my favorite series growing up.
Im pretty sure by now that they know nfts are dead. I havent seen any updates regarding the one game they were developing around this idea.Hmm, I looked into it a bit more because I thought I'd read something recently about how they were still in on it. The most recent I could find was April of last year. That was after they announced the NFT crazy guy was announced to be replaced, but before it happened I think.
SE has been so out of touch for the last two decades. Not only are they chasing trends that they dont understand, but they dont get shy their own successes worked. Ff7-10 worked because they were completely original, they looked gorgeous, and offered experiences no other company was giving. Now today, ff16 is just a lesser version of an action game, with the most boring setting one could imagine, and a sidequest system that puts a browser game to shame.I wouldn't say last 2 decades, I'd say after Kingdom Hearts II is when they fell out of touch.
The only reason they are alive today is because they made an MMO that doesnt look like a ps2 game, and ff7 nostalgia.
I wouldn't say last 2 decades, I'd say after Kingdom Hearts II is when they fell out of touch.KH2 came out 19 years ago. It's close enough.
Xbox only gonna get part 3 of the FF7 remake? LolzYou member when Xbox got Kingdom Hearts 3 a year before KH1.5+2.5? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Sony didnt pay them enough?for their recent shitty titles?
You member when Xbox got Kingdom Hearts 3 a year before KH1.5+2.5? Pepperidge Farm remembers.Remember Mass Effect?
Real talk it's a damn shame Sony has such a lead in the home console market because it means there's nobody to check their ongoing enshittification.
it makes less and less sense to have console exclusives when games now cost hundreds of millions to develop, market, etc.And since everything is an x86 anyway and GPUs generally compile their own shaders. It made sense when porting a game meant literally remaking the entire game but today, if going multiplat amounts to anything more than setting a preprocessor directive at compile time, mother-effing shame on the vidja industry.
SE has been so out of touch for the last two decades. Not only are they chasing trends that they dont understand, but they dont get shy their own successes worked. Ff7-10 worked because they were completely original, they looked gorgeous, and offered experiences no other company was giving. Now today, ff16 is just a lesser version of an action game, with the most boring setting one could imagine, and a sidequest system that puts a browser game to