Slownenberg said: Agreed on falling quality from a lot of series that used to be big. Final Fantasy feels like the big one. On PS1 and still somewhat on PS2 Final Fantasy was THE role playing game series. Starting with FF2 (in the US) it was the premier RPG series, and also Square was by far the premier RPG maker through the SNES and PS1 days and still for the most part on the PS2. Now Square is just one of many good RPG makers and FF is just another RPG series. If you want RPGs now its not a choice of Sony or picking up scraps, and since Final Fantasy is no longer the series you HAVE TO buy if you love RPGs the case for buying Playstation gets a lot weaker. |
Dragon Quest, after VIII, has been more on Nintendo’s consoles. IX was a DS exclusive, X was on multiple Nintendo consoles before eventually going on PS4 as well. Remakes of VII and VIII are 3DS exclusives. Even XI wasn’t a PS exclusive as it had a 3DS version and then a definitive edition that was a timed exclusive on Switch.
as for Final Fantasy, I’m interested in seeing whether or not Square Enix will be looking into the Switch successor? I know the modern FF games are primarily PS, but if the Switch successor is as powerful as rumored/leaked, is it possible to play FFVIIR or FFXV (or even XVI) at a reasonable performance? If the switch successor shows success and is powerful, it would be hard to ignore.