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Should square keep FF PS4 exclusive?

Yes, that's where their fans are! 150 32.89%
 
Yes, I want PS4 to win! 29 6.36%
 
No, 3rd party exclusives suck! 61 13.38%
 
No, Square needs all the sales they can get! 151 33.11%
 
See answers. 65 14.25%
 
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Mr Puggsly on 30 January 2017

Unless they spent a massive amount of money porting this game, yeah.

Seems to be on its way to selling over a million physical units and it could be selling well digitally.



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StuOhQ on 31 January 2017

I've always enjoyed exclusives more, to be honest. They just give me the sense that the developer put all of their time an energy into making the (single) experience I am playing the best it can possibly be. Ports after initial release don't bother me, but multi-plats from the get go strike me as a divided effort. Maybe that's why Nintendo fans push back against third parties. We are used to a tailored, polished, individual experience.



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KrspaceT on 31 January 2017

Possibly, though I do agree that F.F is one of the few that can get away with it. I'm not even sure Kingdom Hearts will do when 3 finally appears.



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DannyDesario on 31 January 2017
twintail said:
Really depends how much they spent on the port and whether sales reflect a profit for the X1 version.

If they made their money back on the X1 version then it was fine. If they didnt, then no.

pretty much this.



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ShadowSoldier on 31 January 2017

No. It wasn't worth it. I think this game would have gotten a substantially better and more tasteful push out West via Sony.



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Fusioncode on 31 January 2017

Was it worth it for Square to make FFXV for any platform?



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SamLeheny on 31 January 2017

Pfft! You could ask the same question regarding any game these days;D
Seriously though, multi-platform is ultimately good for the consumer so I won't question it.



mountaindewslave on 01 February 2017
RavenXtra said:
No reason to turn down the extra sales, there's no guarantee everyone who bought it for XB1 would have bought it if it were only on PS4

depends on if it was difficult to port it at all. One would assume it wouldn't cost them that much, once the game was already made, to release on btoh consoles. But supposedly some developers have claimed from time to time that the process can be more expensive than expected

I doubt the PS4 and X-ONe architecture is that different though so it would seem like an obvious good choice given 1 million extra sales or whatever.

That said, Square Enix bitches about what appears to be great sales in the millions ALL OF THE TIME so its quite hard to tell what is or isn't worth it to them. Based on their early predictions (which I think was like over 10 million for the game to make money apparently) they'll probably be disappointed regardless of what happens 



Swordmasterman on 03 February 2017
derpysquirtle64 said:
Radek said:
I think PC should have been their priority over Xbox One.
J-RPG's just sell better on PC's than Xbox now a days.
PC got Tales of Berseria, Nier Automata and Ni No Kuni II this year.

Still no word on PC port of FF XV though..

Not Final Fantasy games. Type-0 HD sold only 120k according to SteamSpy and more than 250k on Xbox One retail only. FFX/X-2 remaster released this year sold less than 300k on Steam. XIII less than 1m. Also, don't forget that Steam has regional prices. In some countries Steam games doesn't cost 60$. 30$ or even less. So, they get less money from Steam with the same sales as on XBO. And that is what matters most. The revenue. Not sales numbers.

Steam is 100% digital,  it gives more money than the console release(per unit).

FFX din't have a Xbox One release, FFXIII  was a 5-6 years old game when it launched, and a lot of people say that its a bad game.

 

FF 7-8 sold 600-1.2 millions on Steam.



Swordmasterman on 03 February 2017
mountaindewslave said:
RavenXtra said:
No reason to turn down the extra sales, there's no guarantee everyone who bought it for XB1 would have bought it if it were only on PS4

depends on if it was difficult to port it at all. One would assume it wouldn't cost them that much, once the game was already made, to release on btoh consoles. But supposedly some developers have claimed from time to time that the process can be more expensive than expected

I doubt the PS4 and X-ONe architecture is that different though so it would seem like an obvious good choice given 1 million extra sales or whatever.

That said, Square Enix bitches about what appears to be great sales in the millions ALL OF THE TIME so its quite hard to tell what is or isn't worth it to them. Based on their early predictions (which I think was like over 10 million for the game to make money apparently) they'll probably be disappointed regardless of what happens 

They would not release  a game to sell 10 millions for profit. They aren't Activision or Rockstar. The goal was to surpass all the previous games.