Square Enix to shift to a multiplatform strategy

[Black Mamba]

As they should have been, all that exclusivity only favors the console it was on more than the game anyway.

Too bad the xbox won’t benefit as it will be a fukking waste of time for that dog shyt console

 

[Black Mamba]

Multi platform as in primarily PC and Switch 2. Xbots don’t buy games like that.

If they bought FF15 as much as they should have, woulda got 16.

The breakdown of sales for FF15 were:

80% on PS4
11% on PC
9% on XBO

That’s why they allowed 16 to be exclusive.

Forspoken flopping killed them.

This
These xbots thinking they gon get games when their console is dead fukking last

 

[Deafheaven]

considering my PC is wayyyyyyyyyyy better than a ps5 I welcome this with open arms

 

[Rekkapryde]

That 9% is a segment base that would have potentially bought the game

Business is all about reaching as many consumers as possible and exclusivity is counterintuitive to that.

If the resources spent aren’t worth it?

50 million in resources and sales or Sony cuts you the same check for exclusivity?

Probably what it came down to

 

[winb83]

Welcome to like 2018 Square Enix.

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.

You not getting turn based on a main FF anymore. Square made that clear.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

If the resources spent aren’t worth it?

50 million in resources and sales or Sony cuts you the same check for exclusivity?

Probably what it came down to

So now we’re seeing that the sales for it are trailing even behind 16 and now the company as a whole is struggling and the franchise isn’t growing as they’d like.

So what’s the reasoning going forward to continue exclusivity for the FF franchise?

 

[Rekkapryde]

So now we’re seeing that the sales for it are trailing even behind 16 and now the company as a whole is struggling and are looking to rid of that route anyways.

So what’s the reasoning going forward to continue exclusivity for the FF franchise?

I didn’t say they needed to continue exclusivity

Switch was weak and Xbots didn’t buy 15. Console exclusivity shoulda been the play then release on PC or day and date with PC.

Forspoken caught an

 

[rdj]

Multi platform as in primarily PC and Switch 2. Xbots don’t buy games like that.

If they bought FF15 as much as they should have, woulda got 16.

The breakdown of sales for FF15 were:

80% on PS4
11% on PC
9% on XBO

That’s why they allowed 16 to be exclusive.

Forspoken flopping killed them.

Just want to add FF15 was released to pc 2 years later in a gen where even PC people had ps4.

 

[Space Cowboy]

Welcome to like 2018 Square Enix.

You not getting turn based on a main FF anymore. Square made that clear.

Then they don’t get my dollars.

 

[Half A $]

Lets be real, the main thing Square messed up was not having 16 and rebirth on pc day 1 along with ps5.

lmao @ 5% or less xbox sales mattering

this move by square aint got fukk all to do with ms and their "i'll wait to it hits gameass" fanbase, it's switch 2 and pc.

sony probably still got ff7 remake on lock until after part 3 is done anyway, this will be for kingdom hearts and stuff coming out in the next few years.

 

[winb83]

Then they don’t get my dollars.

They have spinoff and other series for turn based. They aren't looking for AAA level turn based games anymore.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Square: “We need to expand our reach to xbox customers”

Sony stan’s: “they talking about bringing their games to pc day one”


nikkas crazy

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Square: “We need to expand our reach to xbox customers”

Sony stan’s: “they talking about being their games to pc day one”


nikkas crazy

It's like they fail to read the original post and just going by stan narratives

 

[Space Cowboy]

They have spinoff and other series for turn based. They aren't looking for AAA level turn based games anymore.

I will play Devil May Cry and wait for the next Dragon Quest instead then. Oh well.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

It's like they fail to read the original post and just going by stan narratives

Same shyt in every thread