Soundwave on 11 July 2025
I don't think Square-Enix can afford "cutting edge" graphics and presentation anymore. They don't have the sales to support it.
Things like Spider-Man 2 have a budget of $300 million ... I don't think Square-Enix can even afford that, not for something that might only sell 5 million copies.
That doesn't mean the graphics and presentation will be bad, it just means if you're expecting the FF series to retain top of the line industry visuals that rival things like GTA6 ... you might need to understand they don't have the numbers I don't think to make that happen for a 60 hour game.
They are probably going to be stuck in the range of visuals for FF16/FF7 Rebirth for a while.
