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Blood_Tears on 28 December 2022
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Qwark said:
Ashadelo said:

This has really spiraled out of control. None of us know all the details that are going on behind the scenes, but Microsoft could possibly bring up Square-Enix and Sony's relationship, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy XVI, Forspoken, I - VI remasters, etc. I sure there might be some fuel for their argument there. If Sony is negotiating with 3rd party developers to keep games of Xbox (this has been one of their tactics since PS1) then would not the FTC also have to examine both sides of the equation?

The FTC doesn't study deals, they study acquisitions mostly. The FF remasters also come to Switch, so SE might just not bother to port them to Xbox. The same way FTV also doesn't look in the Ark 2 deal for example. 

Exactly, no where does Square or Sony even state the remasters are from a paid deal especially when it's going to Switch and PS4 with no native PS5 sku so he's mistaken on that one. 

Also, since release Crisis Core has never made it to the most played list on Xbox in the US. The highest it got was the 42nd spot and dropped out of the top 50 afterwards. Diofield and Star Ocean also bombed on Xbox in the recent months. Octopath Traveler must not have done well either as part 2 is skipping Xbox. The fact of the matter is Xbox users are not buying enough of SE's games and now the publisher has lost faith in releasing their games on that platform. They have only themselves to blame for this. This is a platform community problem, not a Sony problem.