Currently Online 
| Chazore said: It'll definitely be doing better than Forespoken did, since FF is an evergreen brand, and Forespoken was new, it's marketing didn't exactly set the world on fire, was mostly memed on, and by it's time of release, it both ran poorly and had poorly written dialogue and just got shat on and faded into obscurity. Is their 3m projection for PC sales first month?. |
I assume you mean PS and yeah, it should be, since Q4 ends on March 31st.
Mind these are not explicit numbers, just conservatively extrapolating from their expected revenue vs. previous years and roughly accounting for other game releases that could affect their baseline.
| Soundwave said: Forspoken flopping doesn't really get talked about too much either, but I think that cut Square-Enix deep. They were betting on that being the next big brand to diversify their company away from the exact problem they're in now (decline of their main brand, Final Fantasy). That game doesn't look like it was cheap to make either even if it wasn't great. |
When your game is meme'd because the dialogue is so bad you have a problem on your hands.
No doubt that was the case, but they should have released something good instead, and a lack of quality has been Square's problem for the past 15 years.
Now arguably their only excellent game since 2006 is stuck due to an exclusivity deal and it happened to be the middle game of a trilogy. Worse, one with a very controversial ending, exactly what you don't want if you intend to sell a sequel to it.
