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shikamaru317 on 22 February 2024
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G2ThaUNiT said:
shikamaru317 said:

So, FF7R2 is looking like a strong GOTY contender with a 93 on Opencritic, I'm not seeing much else on the release schedule for the year that could top it. A real shame that Xbox just stood by and let Sony moneyhat all of these Final Fantasy games.

Maybe we will still get it this year since Sony reportedly only has a 3 month deal this time, but that could just mean 3 months before PC and an Infinity of waiting for an Xbox port, since FF7R1 still isn't on Xbox after nearly 4 years.

I can't imagine what the price figure would look like lol. It was reported early on that Sony was hellbent on ensuring FF was PS exclusive this gen. So not only would have had to Sony offer an insane amount of money for the exclusivity of already 3 FF games, but they even offered direct support to help develop the games. 

Whatever Sony offered, Microsoft would've had to have paid at least triple that amount. Why spend that much on games they wouldn't even be able to get on GP, when they could've gone on a spending spree to have ownership over 50x the IP and ensure each of those IP go on GP?

They didn't need to make an exclusivity counter offer, but rather a Gamepass offer on all 3 of those FF games. If the combined money Square would have made from day one multiplatform Xbox + PS + PC sales + late Switch 2 port sales + Xbox day one Gamepass money on all 3 games, exceeded the amount Sony would have made from the PS timed exclusivity deal payout and PS sales + late PC port sales (and possibly later Xbox/Switch 2 port sales), they obviously would have went the multiplat + day one Gamepass route over taking Sony's 3 game exclusivity deal money.

Sadly Xbox just seemed to let Square go after paying for that like 8 game Final Fantasy deal on the older FF titles. Maybe they weren't happy with the performance of those older FF titles on Gamepass, and indeed they didn't see huge download numbers on Gamepass, but they were old titles, obviously brand new FF games like FF7R and FF16 would do much better numbers of downloads on Gamepass than old games would.