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Ljink96 on 16 September 2018
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outlawauron said:
Ljink96 said:

Well, you don't have to see it. I can't convince anyone to see anything that they can't. I just know that myself included, among others, we feel it is meaningful. Especially games that were just released on PS4 a year or 2 ago. This opens the door for more content from Square Enix on the FF side, and like I said. Stay tuned for what's in store for the future. It's...bright.

Bottom line is, it may not matter to you but it matters to a lot of other people. The Nintendo Switch Reddit in particular is lighting up over this news. Not everyone owns a PS4 and Switch, for a lot of people Switch is their only platform. Xbox as well, because it's getting these games for the first time as well. If it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, I don't think Square Enix would have put forth the effort to even release these games.

That's fair in terms of impact. But what I was saying is more than about just PS4. These games are available on every modern phone, computer, tablet, in addition to a half dozen console platforms. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Well...Zodiac Age isn't on half a dozen platform... Nor is Crystal Chronicles. The games you're referring to are FFVII and FFIX. I think the goal of the argument here is shifting. It all started with me saying Wii U didn't get any Final Fantasy games that mattered to Nintendo fans. And Switch is. Nintendo fans have already played FF1-6 on Nintendo platforms before. So these games being on Nintendo platforms for the first time...does matter to people. 

This entire thing is more of a "innocent until proven guilty" type of thing. Saying it doesn't matter, and yet these games are announced with a ton of fanfare...by default it has to factually matter. Not mattering would be if absolutely nobody cared. In the case of games like FFVII, and IX these games were never on Wii U or any Nintendo platform before the Direct. That impact...kinda...matters doesn't it? 

Let's spin this a different way. Would having Bayonetta 2 and 3 on PlayStation matter? Yeah, because there are people who won't buy a Nintendo console just to play Bayonetta 2 or 3. But then let's take it even further, Stardew Valley was available for a ton of platforms before it was on Switch. Yet it has sold over 1 million units by now on Switch. It objectively matters to 1+ million people. I'm just trying to be objective here. It's fair to feel it doesn't matter subjectively, nobody can take that away from you. and I'm not trying to do that. All I can do here is try to help you see that objectively it does matter to quite a number of people, even if it isn't you.