tedsteriscool said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
tedsteriscool said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
That doesn't really help though, because no matter how many people played the game, Square only profit from the ones who paid for it. Piracy is not an excuse - I'm sure a lot of people downloaded the game, but many of those probably wouldn't have bought the game to begin with. I'm a pirate (though not really when it comes to games), and if I got blocked off from downloading something I probably wouldn't get it anyway, because I only downloaded it because I wasn't willing to pay for it.
Putting that aside, you know graphics are what cost, right? Concept Art, Story Design and all that already being done really doesn't change much at all. The graphics are what costs, especially since it's HD which ramps up the costs greatly. Development budget of a FFVII remake would be near identical to that of a regular FF-game, most likely.
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Graphics cost, yes. But SE now have a multiplatform current gen HD engine running (White Engine). Just using this engine alone will save heaps of money. FF XIII took so long and will be reported as being very expensive in part because of this engine; now that it's done future games running on it will be able to come out more quickly and won't cost nearly as much as the front runner.
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Yeah, but why make FF7 remake with this engine when they can make FF15 with it and save heaps of money on that instead?
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Reward > Risk.
FF VII is proven to be immensely popular. FF XV could be a swing-and-miss.
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I see it the other way around. Remakes aren't as popular as one might think, even if the first game was. A new entry into the franchise would easily prove more profitable. I refer to my earlier post, my expectations for a FFVII remake would be somewhere around 4-5 million (which is absolutely fantastic for a remake), but for a brand new FF game 5 million is pretty much the lowest it could possibly sell. There's simply no reason for them to remake FF7 on a HD system when it costs so much, and especially when this is current hardware we're dealing with. Why make a FF7 remake and make $30 million when you can make FF15 with the same costs and make $80 million?*
* Numbers completely made up on the spot, they're probably nowhere near what they would actually make, just trying to illustrate my point.
