Have you played VII Rebirth?

It's the most Avergae game that has ever existed, I can't think of anything else in the world as mid as this game. FF15 was flawed, felt unfinished at launch and it was still way better than this game. If it wasn't for a few small things that are great I'd say the game is so average that it is worse than a bad game, if characters like Cid and the Story beats and boss battles HDR wasn't so impressive I'd have shot myself playing this game. I'd rather play something aggressively bad and make fun of it that this mind numbingly bland.

Deserves to fail tbh, they went so far in the wrong direction and made the world's first single player MMO game. 

A shit game gets shit sales, go figure.

Its actually quite a shame that people wont give it a chance.

I only played the demo on PS5 (which I was really impressed with) but I bought the Steam version a few weeks ago when it was on sale. Playing through FFVII Remake Intergrade right now but I'm planning to play XVI Complete on PC as well.

I've been a fan of Final Fantasy since the late 90s when I got into the series and played every single mainline entry minus the MMOs but have to say the change from going to turn based to action got my interest as I prefer action RPGs more nowadays than turn based.

I think FF XVI is great but yikes.
Square Enix needs to course correct. It's clear that the budget is probably too high, and the gameplay is not what people want.
Also, it's time to drop the timed exclusive deal with PlayStation and go day and date with PC as well as some Nintendo and Xbox versions when relevant.
And Final Fantasy VII Part 3 should be day and date on PC and possibly Xbox as well.
How much money could Sony give Square relative to these underwhelming sales figures? Is it worth it?

the thing is like 80-90% of the market share for final fantasy is probably on Playstation.... 
Also exclusives usually get a small boost, from more awareness about the game, marketing and such.

A potential trade off, by going multiplat could be some loss on Playstation side,
that and the "money hat" gift from sony, might mean going multiplat day and date, isn't worth it for them.
ontop of the extra costs with porting the games.

"is it worth it" ? 

probably...I doubt xbox user, would make much of a difference here (like a drop in a bucket).
A bad game just does poorly everywhere.

It might be worth a small bit to go day and date on pc though. Potentially enough to not go exclusive with playstation. 
Then theres the risk of it getting cracked early, and people playing it that way (and the loss of sales potential from such).
However xbox is a non factor in this (imo).

Only SE know, end of the day.

What about the M rating? Why did they suddenly make this game more mature. Could be a turn off to younger audiences.

This is curious because overall XVI has received positive reception. During XV release window folks tried to convince it was like the worst game ever released

In reality it was a fairly well received game with good legs,

XVI a good game. Not stellar but good, it didn't deserve to tank like that. But I think it just looks a bit generic, aside from the brand name there is nothing to put special attention to it. It doesn't look unique in neither gameplay, presentation or technical elements

My main complaint is that you couldn’t play as Jill. She was a great character, and I think the game would’ve been better if it had focused on both Clive and Jill.

Jill And Cid should both be playable characters