| Soundwave said: Anyways maybe if people like you actually put their money where their mouth is and actually bought high budget games like FF7 Rebirth and FF16 Square-Enix wouldn't be running back to Nintendo on their knees and could instead prep for a dream $300 million dollar Final Fantasy 17 that's never gonna happen now. Too bad, so sad. So many of these so called "visual showcases" that are not putting up big sales, almost as if the general market just isn't impressed by the same ol' sales pitch of pretty graphics. Something clearly isn't lining up. |
The “official” discourse is that Square is an exclusive company, its latest games do not sell well and the solution is to stop releasing exclusives.
I don't agree that that is true. In numbers: In recent years Square has published about 7 exclusive games on play5, another 7 exclusive on switch and almost 80 multiplatform.
Square is not a company interested in making exclusive games. And they don't do them unless the money that Sony pays them in advance compensates them or the promotion that Nintendo gives them compensates them. Sony no longer pays them as much as they used to.
But they have also realized that most people complete 3 or 4 games a year. Their new strategy is that they are going to stop releasing so many games to focus on making fewer but much better made games.
If the change of direction really goes well for them and they really become a company that makes the quantity of games we need and with the quality we need, then they no longer need Nintendo to promote anything to them. Because their games are going to sell themselves.
