Is Square Enix scared of releasing FF16, possible flopping ?

[Leynos]

rapsuperstar31 said:

Leynos said:

From my understanding. Square is so scared of FF16 becoming another 10+M seller. They are giving us a sequel to Chrono Trigger. A Monolith Soft remake of Xenogears. Sequel and remake to Vagrant Story and a new Final Fantasy tactics game. Just so those can sell only to a small cult audience and be happy with the results of at best 1M sellers.

If this was la la land. FF16 will come out on PS5 and XSX and sell 15 plus million. It will be a single-player focused game.

Woah now!  While your point is valid, Chrono Trigger was the best game ever made in my opinion, and I will always want a new one as unlikely as it is.  Final Fantasy has gone downhill since IX, with X being good and everything after that being meh to awful.  Having played XV for several hours before stopping due to a complete lack of caring for the characters, I'm not really looking forward to another one this point.  XVI will come and it will sell great, but I can see the series continuing a downward trend.

As great as they were. They were not big sellers was the point. I'd prefer if those games I mentioned got made but it's not going to happen since they just didn't sell that great esp comparison to recent FF games.