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Soundwave on 29 August 2023
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Kai_Mao said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

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.

I don't think Square-Enix really has to listen to Sony. They can just say we're not accepting money-hats that will prohibit our games from being on other platforms, what exactly is Sony going to do. They have a new president so I think things are going to change, their stock price has fallen off a cliff. 

FF7 Remake's sales honestly are a low key dud, I wonder why Square-Enix is so reluctant to update its sales after 5 million ... probably because it had no legs. This game released right as the pandemic was starting so it should have seen a boom in sales as people were basically locked inside, schools shut down, etc. etc., you can't ask for a better window of opportunity than that. Didn't the RE2 Remke top 10 million in sales? How in the world is FF7 not getting at least that much traction? 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 29 August 2023