Ka-pi96 said:
They also had almost no marketing though. I didn't know about the 4 remake until years later when I saw it in a Steam sale. Had no idea about the initial DS release, not as if I would have bought it on DS anyway, but still. Didn't know about the 3 remake until even more recently (this decade, I believe). So yeah, if they want to sell remakes maybe they should actually market them? They're marketing the hell out of 7 and that's selling. |
I mean, put yourself in their shoes. If "marketing the hell out of it" is the solution, they might as well do it for FFXIV or the upcoming FFXVI instead of looking back to an older title... since most of these sold less than XIV or XV back then, to begin with.
Not that it wouldn't be cool if Square Enix outsourced past FFs to a lesser third party dev to do remakes of these games with a mid-sized budget. You have examples of that out there such as Tony Hawk or Metroid 2. But "cool thing that developers won't do" is a gigantic list and has always been, so yeah.
