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Kai_Mao on 28 August 2023
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IcaroRibeiro said:
Kai_Mao said:

Outside of FFVII Remake and maybe XV Royal, I don’t know if Sony will allow Square Enix to develop a mainline modern FF game on a Nintendo console, even if it’s as powerful as the rumors say it is.

Sony has heavily invested on the most recent FF games.

But I agree, Square needs to release some modern FF games on Switch 2. As much as XVI has been hyped up to the max, it’s selling fine, not exceptional, which I’m sure Square Enix was hoping for.

It was supposed to be their Monster Hunter World and Breath of the Wild moment. I know there’s a difference between first and third parties, but Zelda, a franchise long compared with Final Fantasy, managed to reinvent itself with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and sell more copies combined than arguably the entire franchise ever sold prior to BOTW. XVI should be aiming for 10-12 million LTD in the end. I’m not sure it it’ll come close.

FF XVI imho severely lacks the scope and gameplay design to catapult them to MH World or BOTW level. It has no multi-player, it's not open world, don't have customization to engage players for a lot of time. It's basically a story driven action game, which Sony has a vast amount already 

It's the same reason of why Resident Evil is likely not outselling Monster Hunter again

True, the aspects of social/multiplayer and modern open world have changed the landscape of gaming that franchises had to keep up in order to maintain or expand their respective audiences. Hell, even if people nowadays question the quality of the latest games, the Pokémon franchise has found new audiences with their latest generations of games that Final Fantasy wished it could have.

And as what Soundwave said, unfortunately Sony may be quite influential within Square in regards to Final Fantasy. Square would have to be stubborn enough to say, hey somethings not working with this partnership. As you brought up Pikmin 4, here’s another example. FFVII remake, a long requested game and among the top desired games per Famitsu, was completely overshadowed by Animal Crossing New Horizons. A SOCIAL SIMULATION GAME! New Horizons ends up selling over 30 million worldwide and is the best selling game in Japan.,.EVER! While VII Remake did respectfully well, it wishes it got half of what New Horizons sold.

I know the circumstances were unique, but imagine more people wanting to spend time at home playing Animal Crossing instead of a highly requested JRPG remake. That’s wild. I’m sure it blows the mind of every hardcore gamer.