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Soundwave on 07 December 2016
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Zekkyou said:
Alkibiádēs said:
People don't seem to be able to accept the truth here. Yes, Final Fantasy XV bombed hard in Japan. The game had a very long development cycle and must have cost a lot of money to make.

If Japanese developers had any self-preservation they would switch to Nintendo. The best selling Dragon Quest game came out on the DS and not the more powerful PSP or PS3. A game doesn't need to be on a powerful console for it to sell a lot or be good. Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon Gold and Silver offer more content than 99% of the modern games. Pokémon Sun and Moon only took around 3 years to develop (with part of the team making a remake of Ruby and Sapphire as well) and it absolutely destroyed Final Fantasy XV in sales. The budget of Pokémon Sun and Moon will have been only a fraction of Final Fantasy XV.

Square Enix is only hurting themselves by releasing games exclusively on the PS4 (and the XBONE). Kingdom Hearts 3 is another game that is taking forever to develop and I'm pretty sure Dragon Quest XI will see many delays as well because of the PS4 version. I can say the same for Capcom. Street Fighter V was a total flop. Bandai Namco meanwhile worked together with Nintendo and made Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS (best selling in the franchise) and Pokken Tournament (surprisingly outsold Street Fighter V on the PS4). Koei Tecmo made Hyrule Warriors which was one of the most successful Dynasty Warrior games in years.

The 3DS should have gotten a mainline Final Fantasy game, but it didn't and only game companies can be that stupid to ignore such a large market segment.

(Japanese) developers have always put blind faith in Playstation consoles, it's time they do the same for the Switch.
And why on earth is Square Enix supporting Microsoft more than Nintendo? Their anti-Nintendo bias will hit them hard in the future if they don't watch out. We get it Square, you don't like cartridges, get over it because your most famous franchise is getting trashed by "the guys who still make cartridge games". Oh the irony.

That should be fairy obvious; because Microsoft offer hardware that SE's AAA titles can be easily scaled onto, while Nintendo haven't. It's for that same reason that we've seen Final Fantasy progressively move further into the PC market too.

SE have been one of the 3DS's strongest 3rd party supporters. They clearly have no problem supporting a Nintendo system when they consider it worth their time. What they clearly aren't interested in though is either fundamentally re-engineering their games to serve a fraction of the market (the WiiU), or alienating the overwhelming majority of an existing fan-base (in this instance Final Fantasy's) in favour of the 3DS. If they were going down that rout, i'd expect them to skip straight to mobile. That at least is a growing market.

Enix has been a strong supporter of 3DS (bet the guy who pushed for DQXI on 3DS/Switch is feeling pretty damn vindicated today) ... but the Square side I'd say has been fairly dissapointing. 

Who's dick does Nintendo have to suck at Square to get some real Final Fantasy? World of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy X couldn't have been on the 3DS but rather go to Vita (a system that has less than 1/4 the sales). 

20 million install base only gets you two music game spin-offs? Really Square? Really?  

IMO Square has had a bias towards Nintendo since the N64 days, it's time the executives at the company took charge of the situation and said "you're supporting Switch, period. Stop crying". I think some cold hard reality is going to be dawning on the Square side of the company given these sales. They've let the inmates (the developers) run the aslyum and it's taking the company right down the toilet. 

Nintendo has made some poor hardware choices, but Switch looks like an honest attempt to make a powerful system *given* the limitations of portability, which is the only type of game platform Japan will accept today. It's time Japanese developers instead of shunning Nintendo understand that Nintendo is trying to save the damn industry in Japan so that *they* themselves also have some kind of future to work with other than iOS.