| Chrkeller said: I love square concluding what everyone knew for a decade+, lol. Of course being multiplatform means more sales. |
Considering they were multiplatform from 2009-2016, I don't think this necessarily escaped them... but with 90% of the audience coming from Playstation anyway, I think they were happy to run with Sonys money and priotise their preferred hardware.
Now the sales are pretty bad for AAA (Rebirth probably <4m), they have to react and try and expand the audience. Equally Playstation probably has no interest in bank rolling more <5m selling games where they already own the audience. Mutually I think they expected the series to explode like GOW/Uncharted/Spiderman/Horizon etc which all did 20m, even Ghost/Days Gone outperformed FFVII Remake
Also Nintendo finally has hardware that wouldn't butcher the games.
The overall decline is still something I think they're going to have to think about creatively.
For one I think they may need to change the naming convention. Secondly I think they need to lean heavily back to turn-based or something close. The huge ARPG audience out there simply ignored FFXVI
