Well, depends on the person buying the console.

Gaming is fine. The industry is expected to continue seeing significant growth, the problem is largely down to unsustainable practices and brand damage in the AAA sphere. Square is now paying for two decades of bad financial decisions.

​@Outrack Also the fact that the new mass market demographic doesn't want games like this. Those players are playing cod, fortnite and free to play games. It's why pretty much every console exclusive flopped or barely broke even this generation. I think us true hardcore gamers at this point who enjoy niche genres and multiple genres just need to accept these companies do not care about us anymore.

​@@chozochiefxiii3298 The current market is the same as the old one in that they just want fun and engaging experiences, the problem is more with the higher level of effort developers put into games with aggressive monetization against single-sales titles. Players have just become accustomed to expecting poor experiences from so-called "hardcore" games because that's kind of what we've been getting for a while now. From an industry perspective, I think it's a little disingenuous to say the current generation of consumers is the reason console exclusives have been struggling to break even - there are way more prevalent reasons with the most concerning being unsustainable practices and rampant over-expenditure. Spider-Man 2 being a prime example as they needed to sell 10 mil units before breaking even as they had a budget of $400m and 300+ staff; AAA studios are just far too large and they're trying to pass the burden of this onto the consumers by increasing unit cost instead of addressing the issue (contrary to what most people say, games aren't actually more expensive to make now - they only are because you have 20 people needlessly assigned to roles that used to require only 2). I'd also say that the companies do care, they're just being mindlessly run by "money" people that have little understanding of how the industry works which is why so many of the big houses are facing a collapse despite the industry being healthier than it's ever been. If you want hope, trends show that gen Z have started diving into retro games and find them genuinely more enjoyable than current offerings as they were made to be fun, and come without all of the nonsense plaguing games over the last 20 years (engagement figures, DLC incentives, etc)... All of the staff being let go aren't sitting idle, they're forming new companies with plans to produce middle-scale projects akin to the PS2 era, so we'll see a natural course correction within the next decade.

@@chozochiefxiii3298 This is kind of the catch-22 problem with modern AAA. The budgets are so huge that sales numbers must reach astronomical heights to break even, that the core player base simply isn't large enough to make the difference, so companies water down the product to "appeal to a wider audience." This is proving to be a misplaced approach because the "wider" audience only exists on Twitter, and the core audience ends up feeling ostracized and won't buy, and sales numbers fall.

This. The company is making good decisions here. No more AA crap. Indie or AAA focus. Now a push for multi plat which will grow audiences. All their studios are stacked with talent that release 85+ rated games. They seem to be aware of retaining that. FF14 is positioned to continue being the lifeblood of the company for the time being. I hate to be that guy but until US/EU devs show they can make good games again I will shrug whenever I see layoffs in this area of the world.

@@mikev8746stop with the bs about Japanese developers, they can be just as trash as anyone else. Why else do you think that a vast majority of Japanese games never leave the country? They would tank due to them being half done or an extremely buggy mess.

FF sales have been declining in japan for the last 10 years.

@@vincentmamotos9937 I haven't bought a FF game since 10 and I tried to get a refund on that one. I love FFXIV though.

@@vincentmamotos9937 Exactly. People's tastes have changed. It's not about long, captivating, artistic stories anymore. Now it's all about these mobile games or battle royale shooting games. Fortnite is to this generation what FF7 OG was to the '90s generation. Just look at all the people who complain about the Remake trilogy just because of the pure fact it is in three parts. Most gamers now have the attention span of a fish, and I'm not exaggerating. It's the TikTok generation, and Square Enix's model is too old school.

Ff7 original was only on Playstation, and it became regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.

The original PlayStation had about 50 million units sold in 1997, and PC gaming was fairly niche and didn't have a large segment of the market share. PlayStation 5 has only about 10 million. PC is a larger share of the market - 60 percent of Helldivers 2 sales were on PC.

I agree. For years, there's been folks absolutely eviscerating me whenever I suggest that the exclusivity has been terrible for these games. They always would strike back: No, those players don't buy this kind of game, this is a better decision for resource allocation! Unfortunately, the market has now verified that they were wrong.

The audience that would increase the audience for ff the most is switch. Let's see how everyone likes it when the next ff game has to be constrained to work on a nintendo console.

​​@@justwait9822there are other ways to reach that audience though. For example, they released ever crisis on mobile as a gacha game. If they instead used those same assets for a faithful FF7 remake, I think they would have great success and have a model that can be replicated for games that would sell well, without fear of performance issues, and have the modern touches that gamers today expect.

They need to learn from their mistakes and try different tactics like capcom did.

@@77wolfblade Capcom saw some form of recovery, but with Denuvo ruining their latest releases & their stance on modding as a whole, Capcom hasn't overcome their flaws to truly learn from their mistakes.

When they announced they were taking a loss on abandoned assets it was already set in stone that there would be layoffs. It is what it is.

They as in people affected by the layoffs

​@@77wolfbladecrapcom isn't any better 😂

That's why a war will reset everything and create post war booming economy. If you leave in western country, go far away, somewhere where they cant conscript you, it's happening soon.

"staying in" should help the game industry, if the games are good and engaging!

@@shatterlss7814 not if you don't have the money to buy games. If people are cancelling 9.99 subscriptions, they aren't buying 5+ 80 dollar games a year. I lived through a similar time decades ago as a kid and you would get 1-2 video games a year (birthday and Christmas) and play the hell out of them.

@@kaylee42900 that's actually why I'm a big fan of Game Pass on Xbox. Sure, it's another subscription, but for $15/month I've got all my gaming needs covered. There will be a lot of different opinions on that though, I understand.

Considering each new game costs either $70 or 60, that makes it really hard. if two big releases are coming out, and I decide that I "must" have one, then the one I'm more excited about will have to win. When a new Cod or FIFA for example comes out every year, it's like, if we bought last year's game why the hell would we buy another one? I think the last full-price game - and definitely my last physical purchase - I got was Shin Megami Tensei V on the Switch. And I didn't even finish that game (yet.) Since then I haven't bought anything day one. I'm better off just waiting for a seasonal sale, or on PC a Steam sale, to buy.

For real I'm not even a pc guy but the whole console exclusivity thing needs to go and go now. I get that Microsoft and Sony are rivals and all that but shutting out an entire console worth of players seems to me like an idiotic business decision. If say ff7 rebirth sold 3 million copies on playstation think of how that number could triple at minimum if it was on all platforms. Companies need to get with the times and stop being so stubborn with their exclusives

When they directly fire the guy that green lit those titles... it states exactly the opposite of what you are stating the issue is. You wouldn't fire the person that made you money. SQE tried to chase action gaming and failed. SQE fans want RPGs/JRPGS. Not flashy action games.

​@darknesswave100 Fewer than 800,000 Xbox Series Xs were sold in the last quarter, its reported. What makes you think that tiny amount will make a difference? Xbox has an almost non-existent presence in Japan. I doubt mainline FF entries will come to Xbox considering how awful Xbox is doing, as other major publishers are even considering not putting games on Xbox anymore. Smaller HD2D titles will probably come to Xbox but beyond that it may not make sense for Square to put major FF titles on Xbox. We'll see though.

@@PlanetShlorpianyou’re on crack if you think a major title that doesn’t have a exclusive deal with Sony won’t come to Xbox. That’s doesn’t even pass the laugh test

@@PlanetShlorpian Xbox sells less because fewer games are available. FF coming to Xbox will probably be announced in the June event and it will most likely drive sales that will in turn boost sales for FF. Heck, I know people who already own a PS5 and Final Fantasy XVI who would double down if it was coming to Xbox. FF exclusivity deals were harmful both for SE and Xbox, not only for SE.

Not me they will never be able to put out 7remake level quality ever again if they have to cater to the switch. No thanks.

​@@akiraangelfire2127Fr. F*ck switch

If they haven't lost me yet, I can't imagine what they could do to so now.

​@@akiraangelfire2127Not me. They will never be able to make another good "Final Fantasy" ever again if they don't go back to what the Core Demographic wants with Turn Based Combat. Also the Bastardization of FF7's Story with the Sequel Reboot Nomura Fanfiction Timeline Multiverse was an immediate "F this shī I'm out" moment. If Square Enix wants to make "A Final Fantasy for Non-Final Fantasy Fans" then they can have their miniscule "Wide Audience". If I wanted Action Hack&Slash, I'd play DMC, Stellar Blade, Monster Hunter, God of War, Naraka, and all of the other Action Hack&Slash games. I play Final Fantasy to experience the Premier Turn Based JRPG Series.

@@Dark-Glaive FF are about characters and story. Combat comes second.

Yeah idk id that's a good thing after they butchered the story

​@@revivedkyoumahououin1585 you do realize that most of the team has nothing to say about the story?

@@kuksio92 You do realize that at the end of the day, they are selling a bad product that was market of its nostalgia to the fans like you and me so maybe they should have said something because naybe they would have kept their jobs?

​@@revivedkyoumahououin1585FF7R is mostly faithful to the original with a few extras.

​@@revivedkyoumahououin1585How is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth bad?

I highly doubt it

Considering they've kept the same team for both remake and rebirth I doubt it. If they did lay off people from that team then they're fools

I doubt it since it’s US and EU, and most of the work for part 3 is in Japan (obviously not all of it when you’ve got dubs to work out and translate). Still sucks and hope those affected are able to quickly land on their feet elsewhere.

It won’t. The layoffs are only happening in the US and Europe.

i'm sure they're doing everything in their power to make sure Part 3 isn't impacted. I think it's their all or nothing, a hail mary if you will, of a game.

You massively overestimate the PC markett

@@ZoeilaActually, you are underestimating the PC market.

This... they keep leaving money on the table and not releasing on pc (or worse, making it epic exclusive, looking at you KH3) Stop with the fucking exclusivity deals squeenix and you might start making money again.

@@Zoeila Elden Ring has 10+ million units "shipped" on PC. Palworld is close to 20 million. Do not underplay how big a platform PC is.

@@Zoeila 60% of HD2 sales were on PC. It would have been a fairly passable launch on PS alone, PC pushed HD2 into Sonys all time top 10. PS is a dead market.

Exclusivity in general has always been stupid imo. They're limiting their sales to a specific console and wondering why sales aren't high

@@darknesswave100 Third party exclusivity, yes. First party exclusivity is important tho

The numbers of xbox consoles that were sold is very low compared to Playstation and most of the FF fans are on playstation.

​@@gabrielcunha2260 they are still missing a lot of sales from Xbox and PC gamers. That's millions of $ worth of sales but of course it cost money to put it on other consoles

They were paid by sony to be exclusive at a time (ps3/ps4 era) when they were struggling financially.

What did you expect. Most gamers nowadays are all about the graphics. Performance is good and all but if the grass isn't moving, there will be hell to pay!

This is one of the few bright sides of AI being that developers can use it to ease workflows and asset texturing with upscaling. Problem is that you may end up with loss of jobs which would kill artistic integrity

considering the devs specifically mentioned in an interview that rebirth being ps5 only made development much easier, faster and efficient because they didn't have to worry about being able to port to other systems and could really go ham with polish and QA, QoL etc.... i think we'll see SOME depreciation in quality but to what extent we likely wont know until the games ready to be marketed

I really hope and wish they dont mess with FF7 Remake project. Just let part 3 release first and on pc as well.

it wont. development has already been underway of the 3rd game for a while now

I wouldn't mind part 3 being a bit "compromized". A lot of FF7 Rebirth was just filler anyway. Part 3 doesn't need to be on the same scale. They could make even better game with half the budget.

@@Pyovali Complete nonsense. What you call "filler", a lot of people call "amazing side content". I don't want them to remove all the rich variety that made Rebirth amazing. There is absolutely no chance they can make a better game than Rebirth with half the budget. They went all out and that is exactly what made Rebirth so special. If they can't go all out in Part 3 then it will be a huge disappointment.

What about other games? People could still support other franchises. Or the problem is everything FF?

@@TheBeholderist I'm an FF VII fanboy, so seeing it finished is my main concern. I did like some of the Tomb Raider games but they sold the franchise...

The circuit is now complete?

💯 and I know the market is not as big but I'd be buying all of these on Xbox if they ported them.

True. I can't speak for everyone else, but for me personally, I'd rather build a decent pc than buy a console, because I can't buy both (too expensive while being outside 1st world). The thing is, I need pc for work, and I need quite a powerful one, so by building a proper pc I kill 2 birds with one stone: 1) I can work just fine, 2) I can play modern and resource-heavy games as a bonus.

Assuming the cost of development for PC would be less than the increased sales. That's a big assumption.

@@airdrighmor1439 I don't how to tell you this, but the games are being developed on PC first, then made to work for consoles. They're essentially porting them to consoles (which are just very weak PCs with custom software/Operating systems). Compared to making games with specs that would fit to a weaker pc with custom OCs, the work it would take to make it work for PC is way smaller.

@@crimsonpotemkin that's not what devs are saying, or doing, but you do you.

This is where square always messes up though. they need all final fantasy on the switch two and every platform

@@PresidentEvil2 yeah I agree, I just hope they actually do it

There is no FF9 remake.

@@Ukaran not yet

If they get FF vii on the switch, its a hit

I'm willing to bet the bags of money from Sony we're enough to please investors, and heading into Forspoken and Avengers release, probably had moneyed words, claiming how much money it would bring in. And ya know, it all just blew up in his face.

@@SuperRamos619right

the KH mobile games are actually successful sellers.

I don't like the KH mobile games either, but it's pretty well known that the mobile game market is huge worldwide, particularly in Japan with their "on the go" working lifestyle. They are making profit from those games whether you like em or not. Only reason they get approved.

Bruh, because japan likes that crap

Or pay woke consulting firms for inclusion in video games. SE deserve everything they get for their terrible decisions over the last decade. They’re out of touch and need an overhaul.

What are you talking about it sold way way less than rebirth

@@Storm1Trooper5 There's a notable supply & demand issue with physical copies of the game, so how that'll impact overall sales in Japan is still a matter of debate. Final Fantasy selling well is a no-brainer, it's a well established IP in its home country. Part of me wonders if the rocky relationship between South Korea & Japan guided their decision to ship less.

Squares been making horrible decisions, half of them are Garbo. Their mobiles tend to get delisted within a few years or not even. FF14 originally failed, FF13 wasn't a success, FF 15 was pretty mediocre given it's heavy investment, I didn't like origins or 16 that much either. Remake has everything going for it but that's because they have the group that made the original to begin with so it wasn't butchered by some random team making the Avengers, oh yeah Avengers was atrocious as well and also crystal dynamics which was a complete flop.

@@5orskysorsky338 remake is a complete mess aswell. It also doesn’t have the same team making it at all as Sakaguchi is missing and he was the most influential and important part of the team from 1997.

Some people seem to think that putting the game on the xbox would have prevented all this mess, but they just don't realize why they are in this mess to start with. There is no audience for these games on the xbox first of all. And the reason they are in this mess is not their exclusive dealings but poor management. They wasted money with GaaS games, they wasted money with NFTs, they wasted money by canceling projects they sunk lots of money into. The reason SE is in this mess is because of poor management from the top down.

Not enter an exclusivity deal with sony. While not just in sales, but profitability would have been to scale back the entire project. Make it less costly and be something(that while compromised) would have been able to be on the switch(even streaming/cloud version). The fact is that the demographics for the PS5 ownership base isn't best inline with one's who would be most likely to play a ff7 remake project. It's not the 90's/early 00's anymore, PlayStation doesn't have the iron grip on the japanese market (it's an after thought there) or jrpg fans that they used to, they have been leaving the PlayStation ecosystem for Nintendo and PC for years. It's part of why FF and square enix has been sinking into irrelevance.

@@ericp631 so your advocating them compromising their vision for their games for profit? And where is the FF market, especially ff7 in particular, if not the ps? You say PC, what is the sales numbers between the two again? The reason FF7 remake is at the scale it is. Now is because they worked with Sony and got their help through finding ad well as hands to make the game what it is. Which is also partly why it’s temporarily exclusive to that platform now. Rebirth will also come to PC in time just like Remake did and just like XVI will too. Trying to make the game at the scale it is and quality simultaneously release it for PS and PC and oils have cost more and take more time. That’s why they released it first on PS with their aid and PC later. The Developer said as much himself. I’m not ok with them compromising their vision and quality for the games just so they can release it to more platforms at the same time at a chance to MAYBE make more money. Compromising vision for profit is not the way.

​@@aeolussvichi7680 yes. This is a business. Rule 1 of a business is to stay in business. If you make games that aren't profitable enough to stay in business, you will go out of business. What's more important to you? "Vision" or the continued existence of final fantasy and square enix?

@@aeolussvichi7680that isn’t true

I agree. After FF16 and FF7R, I don't own any other games for my PS5. It just plays FF games and movies when a different console isn't hooked up. If it weren't for FF, there would be no love lost if the PS5 was the only Sony console I didn't own. For that matter, Bloodborne and the FF7R were the only exclusives I remember liking on PS4.

Pretty sure it was never confirmed that Part 3 was already going to be PS5 exclusive. I remember there was a headline about it, but then it was immediately changed with a note that Sony and SE did not acknowledge having an exclusivity deal for Part 3. I do think (this is just my own opinion, no knowledge to back it up) Sony probably has a first look deal for exclusivity for it in place already. Like if they want to make it exclusive, they can for a period of time before SE makes it available to other platforms, and if they choose not to then SE can just make it available to all platforms off the bat once they decline it.

@@patriotsfan122480 The way I see it, SE needs to get out of that deal or not renew it. The exclusivity deal is what is hurting SE more than anything else right now.

@@urazz7739 The thing is the deal involved funding from Sony. If they have been using said funds to make part 3 they have no choice legally but to make it exclusive if Sony demands it or face a lawsuit which could lead to massive amounts of the profits being seized by Sony. Granted ideally Sony has lost enough money on the deal too that they'd consider making it multiplatform just so they can make more cash on the project from whatever amount of FFVIIR sales they get but if Sony continues to be as brain dead as they have been lately (Helldivers, Stellar Blade, etc) history will probably repeat itself with part 3 being exclusive (which is my prediction of how things will go down as I don't have faith in Sony to correct itself as long as its HQ is in CA). Now for all FF games after VIIR part 3 (whether it be new, ports, remakes, spin offs) they can tell Sony to piss off with the exclusivity if they feel like it as long s they don't take funding from Sony for said games...which I guess will mainly come down to if SE starts budgeting their games smartly and not budgeting them like the games will make 8 million copies sold or more on release (let me be blunt, they will never. Linear Story driven jrpgs like FF have a hard cap of about 3 to 5 million sales on release date/year...about 1.5 to 2 being hardcore jrpg players and then the rest being casuals not too interested in jrpgs but got interested in the game due to the marketing phase doing a good enough job to draw interest. As such SE should rework how they budget stuff, even if it means a cut to graphics, so that their budget will be high enough that only making about 1.5 million in sales will not cause an issue with SE's bottom line...otherwise they need to make the game a different genre (open world wrpg like game/shooter/sports/etc which SE hasn't had a great track record with and much experience with tbh (ya they had Tomb Raider but they sold the studio that makes it and it was a studio SE bought at one point). And on the gamers part we gotta accept that if we do want these linear story driven jrpgs we'll probably need to accept graphics and other aspects that are bloating the costs of these games being cut a bit to make the project sustainable as that is also a reason for SE's problem on top of the exclusivity BS).

​@@urazz7739It's difficult to get out of when Sony played a pretty big part of it's development. There are alot of Sony names in the credits of each game. Same with second party games like Helldivers 2 and stellar blade.

@@urazz7739 there’s a lot of things hurting them, mostly putting out so many subpar games and mobile games as they have been. Yeah, they’ll sell more being multi-plat, but it’s not going to solve all of their problems, and they shouldn’t expect it to. It still ultimately comes down to releasing good, complete games that people will enjoy playing and want to pick up on release, at full price if they hope to hit the sales figures they want. Obviously there are FF fans that will do so immediately on its PC release, but you’ve got plenty of general fans who may not do so until a big sale at the end of the year, or in a couple of years when part 3 drops, and they have to acknowledge and be prepared for that as well.

In this day and age, every sale is a sale

Xbox is fine

Agree. This is the only video that’s making this sound like an awful thing. Most people believe that they are going to be able invest and focus on their breadwinning franchises and not on crap IP’s that aren’t their domain and suck.

During the making of a game yes, because it takes DEV ressources away from making the game better. Once the game is finished on one platform there is no reason not to port it to others...

@@Aragami_Sensei it ran s@#t on the PS5 lol.

@@mitchjames9350 I have a 55" with HDR/HDR10+, 120hz, ASSM, VRR, Dolby Atmos... It ran insanely well on graphic mode, didn't even need to put it on performance mode... I have no idea what you are talking about...

@@Aragami_Sensei I am referring to FF16

Facts!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Yeah who would have guessed trying to make 10 games at once and have 2 of them be sellers would make them take a hit in their profits. Feels like indi game developers have a better sense on their limits than triple a companies do. They focus on one thing at a time while the rest of them have so many projects working at once that the quality suffers. They should instead of being quantity over quality flip that around and see how well they do

@@darknesswave100 yeah, they'd be far better off with far less projects but having each one be as high quality and polished FF7R. Fromsoft has been sitting pretty for a decade now making generally very few games but having them all be really good, and having most of em utilizing the same formula certainly helps with budget and planning. There's really no reason as to why square can't do the same with 7R's combat system for future mainline games. They probably should've used it for 16 as well tbh, and I loved 16's combat.

Yisus guys, the newer FF games wouldn't run on current Switch and we still dont know if even the newer model will holds up to. FFXVI wasnt even full optimized on PS5, because performance mode drops frames after a battle.

Don't forget forspoken too. Also smaller games like Valkyrie Elysium and foamstars

Same here, I am eagerly awaiting both of them to release on PC

Eh that is as stretch. That’s not the main reason.

@@raskolnikov6443 it’s never one thing. I’m just stating that due to what is happening across the industry, some pretty obvious things like their obsession with nft cuts into that plus canceling a ton of things (which we saw with Sony and others too) will dip those numbers even more

Sony fans are the same so I don't know what are you talking about

It's seems like a braindead decision to do exclusives anyways. Take rebirth for example. Having it on Xbox and pc both would at minimum triple their profits and they'd make back what they spent and then some. Yet companies are out here only releasing on on console and then pc a year later if even later is just stupid

@@darknesswave100 I still haven't played FF16 and I'm pretty much no longer excited for it, the hype is like, LONG gone.

I wanted to at least play FFXVI but can’t buy a PS5 (rather have my kids doing all their extracurricular activities). I at least thought I would enjoy the OST, but can’t really get into it. At this time, Hoping FFIX is not a Sony exclusive

@@darknesswave100 PC yes would be a big boon to profits. But if you think any Final Fantasy game is selling an equal share on Xbox as it does on PS5 then every opinion you have is null in this comment section. Quite honestly they have to get on Switch and if that means scaling back graphics then they need to do so. The Xbox is pretty irrelevant for Japanese games, as it has been since the early years when they're expectations were that Fable would do for RPGs what Halo did for everything else and wipe out Japanese game genres as a worldwide phenomenon.

you forget blackrock, its the chinese credit system, if you dont hire the people we tell you to hire or dont make the stories we want you to make we will lower your score and not many people would wanna buy games from people with low scores its a disgusting way to control and to push the woke narrative

It's not just the super hero formula. People realized they don't need to go to theatres anymore. As for videogames, they just suck and the investors will learn the hard way that no amount of money can save a shit story and boring gameplay.

16 isn't good and I haven't had the urge to play Rebirth even though it's sitting unwrapped right next to me. S-E needs to go back to its roots or one of these days they will have another "final" situation.

@@gamelover2222 I at least want to try 16. And 7 Remake I bought on sale, definitely not helping on SE fiscal year lol (but helping myself).

Consolidation is never the answer bud. That's when things would truly be dire.

Same. I'd buy both if they came to PC, though.

@@aeolussvichi7680 Sorry, didn't understand.

Oh, shut the fu** up! Squaresoft didn't create Octopath Traveler. Or FF14. Or FF7 Remake and Rebirth. Or NieR. Or many other amazing games.

There is no chance either game has sold anywhere near that amount. FF7 Remake alone needed 3.5 years to reach the 7 million mark. There is 0% chance that XVI has done it in less than a year on the PS5. Especially since Square said it underperformed. Same with Rebirth. If it had sold 5 million in 2 months that would be a huge success. The fact that Square reported to investors that it underperformed means it is nowhere near that figure.

@@MarkHogan994 No, Rebirth has underperformed compared to XVI and Remake but as a game without those expectations it's performing moderately, did you miss the part in this very video where it was stated profits from the AAA game division are up 1%, there. Was even an analyst report looking at physical sales shortly after release pegging physical sales at 2m

This this this this this. That new Mana game and the previous remake (I don't remember their names its not a series I follow) have, in my opinion, the perfect graphics. They're detailed and expressive enough without being too overdone. Dunno if those games run well because of the graphics choice though...I would hope they do.

Part 3 is unlikely to be multiplatform on release. The FFVIIR project from part 1 to now has been partially funded by Sony and SE said they cold only get the remake in progress with Sony's funding so if Sony wants it exclusive for a period of time SE can't stop it from happening with the VIIR project. Any future FF project doesn't need to do this though as long as SE learns how to budget the games better (if it means backing off from graphics from what XVI or VIIR did then they need to back off a bit if that's the only way to ensure they profit (let's be clear linear story driven jrpgs like FF do not sell the amount that the budget's SE is trying to push...at most you're looking at about 1.5 million jrpg players who'll likely buy the games and maybe another 1 to 3 million more casual players who may just pick up the game if they market the game well to gather interest in the games for the release of the game...maybe they'll get a few more million post release/after porting the game on top of that but that's about it...jprgs will usually at most sell to ~3 to 5 million unique players (only buy the game 1x) on release and that only applies ot the largest jrpg IPs, for the small to mid size you're looking at about ~1 million sales total in the first few years. SE has to start budgeting their game with lower sales expectations plain and simple (basically they need to budget games with the idea they'll make no more than 1.5 million sales or so so the budget needs to be low enough to guarantee they can profit well with selling 1.5 million copies, 2 million max instead of their obvious way of budgeting where they're expecting 6 to 8+ million sales...if it was an open world non linear rpg like most wrpgs and focused more on gameplay than story than expecting 8 million or so would make sense as said type fo games can more reliably sell that high as most gamers prefer that type of rpg (linear story driven games are usually 50+ hours with very long stretches of cutscenes and most gamers don't have the patience to sit that long which is why jrpgs don't sell as much as wprgs where you're actively in combat/traveling more often)).

@@ifrit1937 that's right I forgot about that. Well let's hope we can at least get it on pc before the ps6 lol

@@ifrit1937def agree on FF7 R Part 3. The ink is likely dry on that deal. But overall, going multiplatform is better in the long run.

16 and 7 Rebirth both have done well in very short amounts of time. They just weren’t able to offset Square Enix’s other failures.

Because it's not that easy to go bankrupt

They’re better off than what this suggests FF both did very well

@@zacatkinson3926Not commercially they didn’t.

@@EldritchErik94 Yes they did

​@@zacatkinson3926They literally said XVI and Rebirth were both solid releases sales wise in the same damn report.

Only that you say they also put a lot of extra useless stuff the one with the arm in the original you pass by the mechanical arm it was just there now you use it its stupid

So much easier for dumb gamers to blame Sony. I'm all for putting it out on PC, but we wouldnt have the quality we have in Rebirth without Sony

@@Silphiroth I wouldn’t go that far and say dumb gamers. Just uninformed because they don’t follow the games development and dev diaries explaining why they chose to work with Sony and make the game exclusive, even if temporarily. It’s easier to just think, put the game out ti more places and it must translate to more sales, right? But not knowing that’s not always the case especially if it takes more resources to do that when you aren’t guarantees to make that back if it doesn’t sell on those other platforms due to smaller audience or no audience at all like in the Xbox case.

Yea love ff7rebirth but that mini game was trash

It’s crazy how they succeed in making it way worse than how it played og ff7

Skill issue. Its an amazin minigame

What does an exclusivity deal have to do with Censorship? Sqeenix said outright they want to make games for Nintendo platforms, and they're much more conservative than Sony about what they allow on their console. Not to mention CERO is much more restrictive than ESRB about videogame ratings.

@@CrowsofAcheron SEE: "Sony Exclusivity", in fact there's been so many complaints coming from developers about it its nuts. This is the exact reason why SE parted ways with them. Of course they are going to SPIN it as a positive lol.

@@CrowsofAcheron Also i never said anything about sony exclusivity in my 1st post. So you're jumping the gun or probably a forum rat to defend sony. i wouldn't want your job lol

@Crows I never said anything about exclusivity also. But its still great news.

cope

what? xD

The younger generations are not as interested in AAA.

Hopefully brada