Square Enix to shift to a multiplatform strategy

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PC being day one has me thinking this may be the last PS/Xbox console generation for a lot of folks. Capcom, Sega and Bamco are already on it.
 
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As they should have been, all that exclusivity only whatever console it was on the most flavors anyway
Yup and those console wars that people love to fight about don't always help keep the lights on at the end of the day.

If this helps keep gaming companies in business, then it's all better for it.
 

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100 percent certain that "diversify strategy" is leaning on the Final Fantast 7 Remake series and future Final Fantasy Remake series because they're supposed to be coming out with a FF9 remake
 

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It’s probably for the best. I don’t think FF is big enough anymore to carry exclusivity. It doesn’t even make sense for Sony to want exclusivity if it ain’t moving consoles anymore.

Will be intersting to see how it does with Switch 2 and PC day one sales.
 

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Most of Japan is on Switch. You have a lot of your key audience on that system. Only FF diehards bought XVI and VII Rebirth and how many diehards does FF really have anymore? You milked your product dry. Four years after original remake? FF is nothing like how it was in its prime. Splitting one of the most hotly anticipated remakes into a three part game. So many factors.

Make the next FF for Switch, PS, and PC. Push aesthetic over cutting edge graphics. Make it turn based Ike FFX/1-III or have ATB. Go back to basics. Make Kitase direct and hire Naora to write. Downscale Nomura esque hijinks. They do not help when you need organization in a time of battle. Potentially hire Sakaguchi as advisor or producer. He’s amazing at seeing talent and putting it in the right holes. Save FF. FFXVII should be a back to basics affair. Turn based is cool again. Baldurs Gate III just ransack shyt.

FF has more than a platform problem. FFXVI is on ps5 and pc and has been utterly forgotten. It was also the first major FF (and now Rebirth) I haven’t bought since becoming a fan with FFVII in 1997.

Save the franchise.
 
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