These games wont sell well cause they are made in a specific way.
Didn't do well on PC.
But some ass-clowns with their 500 visitor blogs or websites, political agenda or fanboy driven reviewers and whatever trash is allowed on Metacritic do? I don't think so.
Funny thing is actually, those who have changed the narrative the most with this game are the ones who now complain about others changing their narrative with this game
Perhaps to achieve this you need to first release those games on that platform on an ongoing basis.....and not rule out for a full decade or inflict insecurity about or the possibility of playing that franchise on that platform.
Surely that would be the reason for being released on XBOX.... which I don't know where the reason for calling it "pointless effort" is.
Didn't do well on PC.
These won’t sell well on xbox cause they didn’t sell good enough on Playstation either.
Perhaps to achieve this you need to first release those games on that platform on an ongoing basis.....and not rule out for a full decade or inflict insecurity about or the possibility of playing that franchise on that platform.
Releasing ports of those games is at least the necessary step if you want to expand the FF fan base. Because at a time when its influence, visibility and following are declining, limiting the franchise to the user base of a single platform at a time of declining was the worst decision you can make today.
Surely that would be the reason for being released on XBOX.... which I don't know where the reason for calling it "pointless effort" is.
It feels like it's a negative thing that more people could have the oportunity of play a game and the Studio/publisher can make their games more profitable.
You think Xbox fans would actually purchase a game? They'd only accept it on GP.
FF fans are barely purchasing it. It can't hurt SE to make it available to a wider audience.
Sales numbers not meeting Squares ridiculous expectations doesn't mean the game didn't sell. They'd be in more trouble if they put this on Xbox. Paying MS for licensing and all only to walk away with 3 sales on Xbox is a stupid choice. Xbox fans don't buy games. It's a problem Phil created.
SE sales expectations are high due to the costs of modern game development. FF audience hasn't grown and in some regions like Japan sales have fallen off quite a bit - FF7 Remake sold 700k+ in its first week in Japan, while FF7 Rebirth sold 260k+ in its first week. While an audience might still exist for the franchise, escalating costs will not allow SE to ever meet expectations without changes.
Because MS became a 3rd party?
FFVII Rebirth is one of the best games of all time, even better than the original FFVII (but its impact hasn't been as great, which is impossible considering it's a "remake", and the trilogy isn't even finished).
And buying a license to make a game that is guaranteed to have little to no sales isn't going to help them. They get more sales porting this over to a Nokia phone.
Games sales might be low on Xbox due to Game Pass, but it doesn't entirely negate its markets willingness to still buy games on the off occasion. They'd still make more than the cost of porting these games over, especially if they tie a deal with Microsoft to release it on Game Pass. It's just silly to think otherwise. It's not a dead platform.
Square Enix needs to just accept that Final Fantasy, while popular and has a fanbase, is not an out of this world must own. They've drastically overestimated the popularity of the franchise.Final Fantasy has been multiplatform during the 360 generation with the XIII saga and on Xbox One with XV, they got remasters of all old classics.
XIV didn't happen because of Microsoft’s policies.
It's basically the FF7 Remake project they're missing and the half-disappointment FFXVI.
The fanbase was not built in general because there is no presence in Japan and because Xbox has always positioned themselves like a dude bro console, people interested in JRPGs have never considered Xbox like a valid platform in general not just for FF.
At this point the move is out of time, out of place, out of reality.
They bring titles on Xbox when the platform is almost dead and the platform holder is bringing their titles elsewhere
It's a scrape the bottom of the barrel move that will lead to nothing.
Square Enix needs to:
1) Decide what Final Fantasy should be and stop chasing trends by constantly alienating fans (action/ non action, mature/teen drama, open world/linear).
2) Release high quality games like Rebirth regularly and try to reach all the new generations of gamers they have completely missed in a decade of fuckups.
3) Focus on the right platforms aka PlayStation, PC and Switch 2 in Japan.
They sold drastically more than on PC.
Remember when ff7 totally bombed on the ps1 after square spent years cultivating a fanbase exclusively on Nintendo? Yeah, me neither.Perhaps to achieve this you need to first release those games on that platform on an ongoing basis.....and not rule out for a full decade or inflict insecurity about or the possibility of playing that franchise on that platform.
Releasing ports of those games is at least the necessary step if you want to expand the FF fan base. Because at a time when its influence, visibility and following are declining, limiting the franchise to the user base of a single platform at a time of declining was the worst decision you can make today.
Surely that would be the reason for being released on XBOX.... which I don't know where the reason for calling it "pointless effort" is.
It feels like it's a negative thing that more people could have the oportunity of play a game and the Studio/publisher can make their games more profitable.
I don't understand why this keeps getting repeated. Very few of the people I play with have GP. I know that's hardly an accurate representation of the whole population, but it's still strange.
At this point the move is out of time, out of place, out of reality.
They bring titles on Xbox when the platform is almost dead and the platform holder is bringing their titles elsewhere
It's a scrape the bottom of the barrel move that will lead to nothing.
The correct platform is the union of all platforms. Where there is a user to add, where there is a platform where the visibility and marketing of the franchise can be expanded, where you can get extra returns to amortize and make profitable the cost of developments, where in the future it can become a new platform, and where to reach other users (the cloud).
You might want to look at the platform splits for those games
You had to go more than 30 years ago to justify a situation..... congratulations.
Well square stopped releasing ff games on xbox after a decade of day 1 releases. So I guess it wasn’t that profitable for them. Most Japanese developers regularly skip xbox nowadays unless ms writes a check. Including the likes of capcom. But I guess all these companies are just stupid according to you.
LOL. The only reason FF (the main series) stopped coming out on Xbox is simply that Sony paid large sums to SE because it believed at some point that it was going to compensate it. The fact is that there you have SE recognizing that it was a disastrous decision and that it returns to multiplatformity including XBOX (to your annoyance it seems)
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I just checked my transaction history. You are correct. I got the base game on a sale for $34.99 and got the Expansion Pass for $24.99 in the same transaction. This was on 5/3/24.
The "season pass" so far hasn't been on sale.
I know that because I bought FFXVI at launch and I loved the game, but I am still waiting for the dlc to go on sale (I don't think that the dlc is worth the full price).
