Toyo Securities estimates Final Fantasy 16 has sold 3.5 million

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CosmicSex said:

Square ported the PC version of FF16 to the Xbox Series consoles which probably greately reduced their development costs. And they still probably wont recoup the dev costs associated with porting it to Xbox. While its true that Sony has had some deals with Square for exclusivity, there is absolutely 0 incentives for Square to put their games on Xbox. In fact, legend has it that it was Square who approached Sony for the FF16 deal.... when you think about it, they probably made more money on the deal with Sony then they would by releasing it on Xbox. I think Square is more sly than we give them credit for. THEY are the ones who were seeking exclusivity because they already have done the math and they know its in their best interest.

They don't have to do that so much going forward now that they can ship on Switch 2 as well. Stil expect PlayStation to get the first go at FF7R:3.

It typically would be in the 6 digit to lower 7 digit range to port a game to another platform depending on the complexity of the game. And with the $70 Complete Edition of FFXVI hovering near the top 10 for a week now on Xbox, it'll easily surpass porting costs. They're just trying to squeeze every last sale they can now on the game.

I would drop the thought of SE being more sly than we give them credit for though lol. That's a bit of a revisionist take. They were the ones that were losing money left and right for years to the point they couldn't afford to have games exclusive anymore. An exclusivity contract on a AAA game will be good to at least cover a good chunk of development costs, but not all of it. The second their current CEO, Takashi Kiryu, took over, he immediately started changing how the company operated, starting with getting rid of exclusivity for their games because they were losing money for too long. Although I wouldn't be surprised if there's still several upcoming games that are exclusive based on existing contracts that were signed prior to his tenure (Such as FF7R Part 3), but the long term, Square will be fully multiplat.

Outside of a handful of exceptions, exclusivity doesn't work the way it used to for third parties.