The Fury said:
I was thinking that of making a thread about the Nebula Nova Crysalist (or whatever it was) series and how it has hurt SE in more ways then they probably like to admit. Development time and effort spent for years making games and it took 4 years to release the first from when it was announced and it wasn't that great, 2 poor sequels, a handheld game and mobile game is all we have to show for it and the handheld game took 6 years to be released. FFXV (vsXIII) has taken 8 years to get this far. In all time they could have made 3 main series FF titles each selling 8 million last gen instead of 1 series that sold 11 total, a game not even released and a psp game only in japan. |
They really should have done that. Turning each entry into a franchise of its own has been damaging in my opinion. They should save it for occasional spin offs like Dissidia (we need Dissidia 3 for PS4!), or the occasional fan service title like crisis core. Ultimately though the series was best when each fantasy was final.
I'm hoping they're moving back towards that notion and that FFXVI is pretty far in development as we speak. Even though it sounds cost efficient to make sequels off some existing assets, when sales drop by 50% with each sequel alongside the franchises reputation, it makes question if its even logical from a business perspective. They've only managed 11m in the last with 3 FF titles in the last 6 years. If each of those title were unique, they could have easily achieved 22m units and upwards.
