[RUMOR] Final Fantasy 16 battle to be Action RPG like Dragon Dogma or Devil Maycry 5 ?

[DonFerrari]

The Fury said:

Ka-pi96 said:

And the reason this conversation keeps happening is because some people continue trying to push a false narrative despite the evidence saying otherwise. Just like EA with their "people don't like single player games anymore" bullshit.

Thank you for saying all this, I put this in words before but deleted it as I thought people would just moan at me. The idea of some of the biggest RPG franchises are still turn based and still sell millions is no sign that a game selling literally on name only is a sign of turn based no longer being popular.

Was turn based outside of FF, Pokemon and DQ really that popular even in the 90s/early 2000s? No, outside these 3 games series, turn based games didn't exists and if they did were low selling. Only difference between then and now is that SquEnix are not making turn based Final Fantasy games anymore.

How can we know if turn based FF games are no longer popular if they don't make them to find out? 

Actually there are still FF games turn based. Not the mainline. But their Smartphone Brave Exvius is turn based (and for the challenges it is quite challenging and demand a lot of strategy and good equips/units) and vision (turn based and "table" RPG as well), console and PC World of Final Fantasy was turn based and there is the tactics line as well.

The Fury said:

DonFerrari said:

PS4 have over 4000 games, I don't think PS1 had this many, for sure I know N64, GC, Xbox, DC, Saturn, etc didn't.

Different times, back when all those consoles existed there wasn't a easy to access market for the smallest of games to the biggest of epics all with different values. FF7 sold for the same as Parappa the Rapper, one was a 40 hour epic, the other a 45 minute party game.

Very true, but even today most retail games sell for 60 don't matter the quality or duration, with Indies being relevant (can't say they existed on consoles at that time) and mid tier being a very small minority.

Just wanted to point that we certainly aren't that deprived of games nowadays.