Sony needs something to replace Bethesda's single player RPGs.

[Mr Puggsly]

victor83fernandes said:

Mr Puggsly said:

At first I was leaning towards agreeing, but I'm pretty sure Skyrim propelled that series above Final Fantasy. While Fallout 3/4 and Oblivion also sold mega numbers.

Personally, I'm kinda doubtful the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout will skip Playstation. Because Playstation users love those IPs and there is a ton of money to be made. However, making them console exclusive to Xbox would likely give a big sales boost to Xbox hardware.

To the contrary, most people who really care about Final Fantasy already buy Playstation. Since the late 90s and beyond, Playstation has been the place to play the major FF releases. Therefore Sony taking FF from Xbox wouldn't really matter that much. I mean Sony money hatted FF7 Remake and I don't think Xbox fans were really that upset over it. At best it was probably just gonna sell a few million on Xbox, a small fraction of what Fallout and Elder Scrolls sell on Playstation.

Remember, without playstation and switch and remasters, skyrim numbers would have been way less, bringing it more on par with the final fantasy games.

So yeah, final fantasy 16 is a good replacement on ps5. Whoever only has ps5 will definitely be missing great games, but any gamer who actually likes videogames will already have either a ps4/ps5 and either an xbox one, xbox series or PC.

Personally I'd rather play the next Elder scrolls than final fantasy 16, but the next elder scrolls is many years away from release while final fantasy 16 is already next year.

Skyrim wasn't just a big hit on PS360, the series also has a massive following on PC. Hence, I am quite certain the game trounced Final Fantasy even before remasters. I think its also safe to assume a Skyrim remaster had more sales potential than any FF game.

I'm simply saying if Playstation lost Bethesda RPGs, there would be a boost in Xbox hardware sales. While the Playstation will benefit less from getting Final Fantasy 16 exclusively because that's the platform most of the fans already are at. Which probably makes the series easier to money hat to begin with. Hence, they are money hatting the IP they already dominate in sales.

Regardless when FF16 releases, its just not a game the Xbox audience would be particularly excited about. And hey, Xbox still has Fable and Outer Worlds 2 coming eventually. Generally speaking, MS is doing well in the RPG genre.