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Jez Corden: "Dont expect Final Fantasy VII REMAKE for Xbox, Final Fantasy XVI and Pixel Remasters will be announced for Xbox at TGS"

Punished Miku

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Xbox people have to demostrate that they care for final fantasy if they don't want to be skipped again for the next titles.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thinking that has led SQEX to their current state. Work on winning over new customers? No. Let them prove they are worthy while the series keeps declining in popularity.
 

intbal

Member
Final Fantasy has minimal history on Xbox.
There's no established fan base of any significant size among gamers who are exclusively invested in the Xbox ecosystem.

On the other hand, Xbox has a long history with Team Ninja games. I can see remasters of Nioh 1 & 2 selling big on Xbox.
Oops, you don't own that, Square. Or really much else that Xbox gamers care about.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
He didn't say any of that in the clip.

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Nydius

Member
Must be a slow Saturday. Got the usual suspects™ in this thread trying to spin the notion that FF7R is bad then going over to another thread to shit on Astro Bot. Must really suck to live in the alternate green reality. Sorry your beloved box can't produce or publish high quality, GOTY caliber games (or shitcan the studios who do).

There's always next year.
 

Elios83

Member
FF on Xbox became relevant enough that not releasing the next FF there was a bad decision. At a time when a ~million units sold can be the difference between amortizing or making profits and or meeting expectations.... throwing away that user base is a bad decision, whether you want to admit it or not. Even more so when the visibility and monitoring of the franchise shows clear signs of decline.

Then, FFXVI is anything but a traditional JRPG and is closer to a game for "dude bros" than for Japanese tastes.

It's funny to me the " Is not for the Xbox users", because the same thing was also said about SOULs type of games and there you have how Dark Soul and EldenRing sell fantastically on XBOX.


The reality is that 99% of publishers and Studios release their games on XBOX and that so many games of all types and origins have never been released in that numbers on Xbox consoles. And this happens for a reason and that is that it is still financially interesting to release games on Xbox whether you like to hear it or not. Among other things, because the developments are so expensive in cost and time that any additional sales, extra income and free marketing can be decisive in the success and prosperity of a franchise.

The feeling is that some of you are too affected by this happening and I don't understand the reason. I don't think it's bad to sell 600k-1m units of a game whose port to XBOX I doubt costs more than the returns on those sales and the advertising savings you get. But of course, for that what you have to do is launch it day one and offers a good game.



Rather, what I believe is that they have to work on finding the correct formula. And the correct one will be the one that attracts new and old users alike. Today, games that have their user base very focused on a single market or a few certainly have a problem recovering investments of $200+ millions.


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).

Closing doors and limiting your user base is the worst decision you can make today, even more so with the uncertain future of where technology and the video game business is going.

Capcom, NamcoBandai, Sega, etc.... are doing that and they are doing much better than SE.

You're just ignoring reality.
Final Fantasy has already been on Xbox with multiple games, it was irrelevant, the fanbase of that console never truly embraced the series.
They just released FFXIV and this is the result:


Square Enix isn't looking to make ports just to recoup costs or to sell less than 1m units more (which is a very generous assumption in the current Xbox situation and with the Gamepass factor). They're looking for million units more, they basically want the series to have a popularity that it simply hasn't nowadays.
The Xbox platform is completely irrelevant in this dream.
The best they can do is fooling Microsoft into offering some bags of free money unrelated to actual sales to bring the game on Gamepass, same thing happened for other Japanese games like Yakuza.
This has nothing to do with the viability of the Xbox platform whose sales are reaching dead levels in many markets and that the same Microsoft is abandoning in favour of a full multiplatform strategy.

Square Enix issues are that they need to stop with the fuckups and titles that are half disappointments including FF16, rebuild the brand and target all the younger generations they have missed.
If Final Fantasy continues to sell mainly to the fans they had during the 90s which are now over 35 years old, their future is bleak.
Multiplatform per se is a band aid, not the solution, FF16 was just released on PC, it's clear there weren't millions of players waiting for the game to be unlocked from PS5, sales are modest.
 
Square Enix must really be hard up these days if they think another 5,000 copies of FFXVI sold on Xbox is going to save them financially

Unless they are getting a really nice Gamepass deal from MS, I can't really see the financial incentive to release these games
 

djjinx2

Member
And what is your take of the current situation?

Should those posters create positive posts about xbox, while the brand is currently dying?
This thread is about Final Fantasy coming to Xbox.

I'm not going off topic about Xbox dying.

It just gets real boring in every single damn thread. Not even decent chat most of the time just pure negativity and meme's.

I'll go back to reading only now sorry for the OT rant
 

akira__

Banned
This thread is about Final Fantasy coming to Xbox.

I'm not going off topic about Xbox dying.

It just gets real boring in every single damn thread. Not even decent chat most of the time just pure negativity and meme's.

I'll go back to reading only now sorry for the OT rant

JRPG games have traditionally have difficult time selling on Xbox.

And we are at the point where MS themselves have started moving away from their platform.

I didn't ask to go off topic, final fantasy coming to Xbox is not in vacuum. The question was : "What is your take on the final fantasy situation?"

What has changed between now and few years ago is that certain posters that have been positive about Xbox have stopped capping for xbox and are now PCMR.

If you read the below thread this thread is almost a repeat.

 
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djjinx2

Member
JRPG games have traditionally have difficult time selling on Xbox.

And we are at the point where MS themselves have started moving away from their platform.

I didn't ask to go off topic, final fantasy coming to Xbox is not in vacuum. The question was : "What is your take on the final fantasy situation?"

What has changed between now and few years ago is that certain posters that have been positive about Xbox have stopped capping for xbox and are now PCMR.

If you read the below thread this thread is almost a repeat.

More JRPGs coming to Xbox is a good thing, they won't sell at all but via game pass will benefit both Xbox and the publisher's.

I haven't played a Final Fantasy since 7 way back in time, nothing could compare to Secret Of Mana unfortunately.

Maybe people just liked Xbox? We have crazy fans on all sides. But it gets hard to have discussion when one side outweighs the other so drastically and just meme's/hiveminds the shit out of you. Kind of takes the fun out of discussion.
 

akira__

Banned
More JRPGs coming to Xbox is a good thing, they won't sell at all but via game pass will benefit both Xbox and the publisher's.

I haven't played a Final Fantasy since 7 way back in time, nothing could compare to Secret Of Mana unfortunately.

Maybe people just liked Xbox? We have crazy fans on all sides. But it gets hard to have discussion when one side outweighs the other so drastically and just meme's/hiveminds the shit out of you. Kind of takes the fun out of discussion.

Since those posters you have mentioned are in that thread with the same topic 2 years ago.

But the flow of thread was different, because it still consisted of many xbox fans. Since they moved over to PCMR they no longer offer push back, or hype xbox.

Thus it would be more fruitful to engage those posters, that have shifted away from xbox. Than blaming posters who have been consists with their take throughout the years.
 
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Darsxx82

Member
You're just ignoring reality.
Final Fantasy has already been on Xbox with multiple games, it was irrelevant, the fanbase of that console never truly embraced the series.


The reality is that FF sold very decently on XBOX at the time when users felt that the platform was supported. It is illogical to expect percentages close to those of PS after a decade of being out of the loop.

And yet FF13 sold very well and FFXV sold enough on Xbox (~1'5-2m). The problem is starting to build a user base and suddenly abandoning it.
They just released FFXIV and this is the result:

Curious because the last thing Square has officially said is that it is very happy with the support that FFXIV is receiving on Xbox and that is the reason why they are going to increase support for their games on Xbox🤷

Whether this is true or not, what is true is what they themselves have admitted: that to increase the fan base of a franchise on a specific platform, the first thing is to support that platform and not make distinctions. It is not logical to expect better results if you not only do not put in the resources, but you are actually doing harm.

Square Enix isn't looking to make ports just to recoup costs or to sell less than 1m units more (which is a very generous assumption in the current Xbox situation and with the Gamepass factor). They're looking for million units more, they basically want the series to have a popularity that it simply hasn't nowadays.

Square doesn't release games for charity, that's for sure.
If they release games on Xbox it's simply because they think it will be profitable in somo form to do so. There's no need to think about it too much.
Releasing on as many platforms as possible increases visibility. Recently, the CEO of SEGA and Namco described the reasons perfectly.
For an IP that is declining in popularity, the worst thing is still limiting its user base.
Releasing on Xbox helps with what they need to revitalize the franchise (visibilidad) , not hurts it.
The Xbox platform is completely irrelevant in this dream.
The best they can do is fooling Microsoft into offering some bags of free money unrelated to actual sales to bring the game on Gamepass, same thing happened for other Japanese games like Yakuza.
This has nothing to do with the viability of the Xbox platform whose sales are reaching dead levels in many markets and that the same Microsoft is abandoning in favour of a full multiplatform strategy.

And yet 99% of publishers release their games on Xbox, and more and more games and franchises that were not released on Xbox in previous generations are now doing so...
Perhaps we should ask ourselves why before we dismiss the potential of releasing games on Xbox. I don't think 99% of publishers are stupid.

Also, nobody is saying that launching on Xbox will make FF regain prestige and sell more. For that the important thing is that the product is good and connects, as you say, with the tastes of new users and not just the original ones.


Square Enix issues are that they need to stop with the fuckups and titles that are half disappointments including FF16, rebuild the brand and target all the younger generations they have missed.
If Final Fantasy continues to sell mainly to the fans they had during the 90s which are now over 35 years old, their future is bleak.
Multiplatform per se is a band aid, not the solution, FF16 was just released on PC, it's clear there weren't millions of players waiting for the game to be unlocked from PS5, sales are modest.

Multiplatforming needs to be done in a certain way and not in a doubtful way. It's stupid to think that a port of a game 1-2 years later could sell the same on a platform as if it were released day one. Add to that the fact that it's a game that didn't have the best reception or the best word of mouth at its launch and that when they're released there are other releases that grab the attention... 🤷

Betting on multiplatforming requires launching on several platforms day one. Half-measures don't work.
 

djjinx2

Member
Since those posters you have mentioned are in that thread with the same topic 2 years ago.

But the flow of thread was different, because it still consisted of many xbox fans. Since they moved over to PCMR they no longer offer push back, or hype xbox.

Thus it would be more fruitful to engage those posters, that have shifted away from xbox. Than blaming posters who have been consists with their take throughout the years.

Fair comment, maybe its me that should find a new forum then.

As it's still very negative by many PS users towards Xbox here ( I used to be Playstation and remember some of them from the old PSU days)
 
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StereoVsn

Gold Member
What’s really dumb in SE’s part is not releasing games on PC Day 1 or at least much quicker. They are really killing their revenue there.

For Xbox, architectures are similar enough between PS5 snd Xbox Series that port can’t be that expensive. Even if SE sells couple hundred thousand copies it would still be worth it.
 

JohnnyFootball

GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thinking that has led SQEX to their current state. Work on winning over new customers? No. Let them prove they are worthy while the series keeps declining in popularity.
What "new" customers? Xbox gamers don't buy shit.

FFXVI wouldn't even be likely to sell 1M on an Xbox console.

The only way it makes sense to put any game on Xbox at this point is if MS pays for the port.
 

JohnnyFootball

GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
You're just ignoring reality.
Final Fantasy has already been on Xbox with multiple games, it was irrelevant, the fanbase of that console never truly embraced the series.
They just released FFXIV and this is the result:


Square Enix isn't looking to make ports just to recoup costs or to sell less than 1m units more (which is a very generous assumption in the current Xbox situation and with the Gamepass factor). They're looking for million units more, they basically want the series to have a popularity that it simply hasn't nowadays.
The Xbox platform is completely irrelevant in this dream.
The best they can do is fooling Microsoft into offering some bags of free money unrelated to actual sales to bring the game on Gamepass, same thing happened for other Japanese games like Yakuza.
This has nothing to do with the viability of the Xbox platform whose sales are reaching dead levels in many markets and that the same Microsoft is abandoning in favour of a full multiplatform strategy.

Square Enix issues are that they need to stop with the fuckups and titles that are half disappointments including FF16, rebuild the brand and target all the younger generations they have missed.
If Final Fantasy continues to sell mainly to the fans they had during the 90s which are now over 35 years old, their future is bleak.
Multiplatform per se is a band aid, not the solution, FF16 was just released on PC, it's clear there weren't millions of players waiting for the game to be unlocked from PS5, sales are modest.
This is the issue here. SE (and probably Sony) overestimate how popular Final Fantasy actually is. They see Final Fantasy as a 10M+ selling series, when it's really around a 5M selling series.

Even in the best case, Xbox doesn't have the userbase to cover that difference.

Final Fantasy wa
 

Ebrietas

Member
You're just ignoring reality.
Final Fantasy has already been on Xbox with multiple games, it was irrelevant, the fanbase of that console never truly embraced the series.
They just released FFXIV and this is the result:


Square Enix isn't looking to make ports just to recoup costs or to sell less than 1m units more (which is a very generous assumption in the current Xbox situation and with the Gamepass factor). They're looking for million units more, they basically want the series to have a popularity that it simply hasn't nowadays.
The Xbox platform is completely irrelevant in this dream.
The best they can do is fooling Microsoft into offering some bags of free money unrelated to actual sales to bring the game on Gamepass, same thing happened for other Japanese games like Yakuza.
This has nothing to do with the viability of the Xbox platform whose sales are reaching dead levels in many markets and that the same Microsoft is abandoning in favour of a full multiplatform strategy.

Square Enix issues are that they need to stop with the fuckups and titles that are half disappointments including FF16, rebuild the brand and target all the younger generations they have missed.
If Final Fantasy continues to sell mainly to the fans they had during the 90s which are now over 35 years old, their future is bleak.
Multiplatform per se is a band aid, not the solution, FF16 was just released on PC, it's clear there weren't millions of players waiting for the game to be unlocked from PS5, sales are modest
100% accurate

Unfortunately some people have not come to terms with the fact that Xbox is a borderline dead platform. Especially for Japanese games. They’re still living in a world where Xbox is a major platform that no publisher could conceivably de-prioritize or outright ignore. Even when Xbox had a user base rivaling PS these games still only sold about 10% on Xbox. Imagine what the sales split would have been with the current Xbox. The platform is heading into Wii U, vita, and stadia territory.
 

djjinx2

Member
I know i'm so damn sick of us xbros being victimised here
I didn't name you at least ;)

Too old and thick skinned to feel victimised. Just rather read less Xbox is doomed dribble in every thread regardless of (Xbox) topic.

Thread : Xbox game coming soon

Gaf : Hur Hur this will look best on PS5 Pro amirite guys hur Hur.

Not even discussing the topic at hand just some Sony soy boy shitting the place up
 
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Punished Miku

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I didn't name you at least ;)

Too old and thick skinned to feel victimised. Just rather read less Xbox is doomed dribble in every thread regardless of (Xbox) topic.
I just use the ignore button. Going for the high score currently. Lot of losers on here with nothing better to do than try and make everyone else as miserable as they are. GHG GHG hasn't even had a lunch break in over 10 years. He comes on here when he's hungry and rants about Xbox, which is all the time.
 

akira__

Banned
I just use the ignore button. Going for the high score currently. Lot of losers on here with nothing better to do than try and make everyone else as miserable as they are. GHG GHG hasn't even had a lunch break in over 10 years. He comes on here when he's hungry and rants about Xbox, which is all the time.
Why do Xbox dudes relate everything back to playstation.

Why not ask the Phillness why there is no more positivity around the brand?

Why not ask for more things to be hyped for?

Why not ask certain posters that switched to PCMR Why they no longer defend and hype Xbox.

Instead blame GHG GHG for pointing out the negativity.

Blame Phill, blame Booty and Sarah.
Blame them for shutting down of PR network ambassador program.

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Chukhopops

Member
JRPG games have traditionally have difficult time selling on Xbox.

And we are at the point where MS themselves have started moving away from their platform.

I didn't ask to go off topic, final fantasy coming to Xbox is not in vacuum. The question was : "What is your take on the final fantasy situation?"

What has changed between now and few years ago is that certain posters that have been positive about Xbox have stopped capping for xbox and are now PCMR.

If you read the below thread this thread is almost a repeat.

I’m not sure where you see people in that thread going from Xbox to PC? In fact most of the Xbox people from that thread are either banned or have left entirely. It’s a bit of a sad read actually.
 

djjinx2

Member
Why do Xbox dudes relate everything back to playstation.

Why not ask the Phillness why there is no more positivity around the brand?

Why not ask for more things to be hyped for?

Why not ask certain posters that switched to PCMR Why they no longer defend and hype Xbox.

Instead blame GHG GHG for pointing out the negativity.

Blame Phill, blame Booty and Sarah.
Blame them for shutting down of PR network ambassador program.

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Who here used to "defend" and "hype" Xbox? Are you saying they were shills then?

Who said people aren't hyped for stuff? I get CoD this year as part of my sub. New Indy too.

Brand positivity I'll give you though, who's fault that is we will never know (Phil, Sarah, satya etc)

What the fuck does an ambassador program have to do with anything?


Are you saying anything positive about Xbox said must be paid? I don't get it
 

akira__

Banned
I’m not sure where you see people in that thread going from Xbox to PC? In fact most of the Xbox people from that thread are either banned or have left entirely. It’s a bit of a sad read actually.
I'm not going to name them, like the two posters whose names start with A and Z.
You can find them yourself here:


Who here used to "defend" and "hype" Xbox? Are you saying they were shills then?
What the fuck does an ambassador program have to do with anything?

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It's worse then normal shilling, since that will actually get you payed. This will only get you emblems and the best deal in gaming gamepass.
 
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djjinx2

Member
I'm not going to name them, like the two posters whose names start with A and Z.
You can find them yourself here:





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It's worse then normal shilling, since that will actually get you payed. This will only get you emblems and the best deal in gaming gamepass.
But what does that have to do with here, why post that in this topic in response to my or others posts?

Also bonus points for getting this in a Wukong thread being first to mention Xbox ;)

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You responded to me about Final Fantasy and we have gone way off so this will be my last post in this topic with you.

Good day sir.
 
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Chukhopops

Member
I'm not going to name them, like the two posters whose names start with A and Z.
You can find them yourself here:





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It's worse then normal shilling, since that will actually get you payed. This will only get you emblems and the best deal in gaming gamepass.
You really have no idea who I’m talking about, must be because you’re a fresh account who wasn’t there back then :).

When I talk old Xbox crew in the thread you link I mean people like Gone, Catlady, even Sensusage or whatever he was called and yeah they’re all banned or have left. Can’t blame them either way.

And you sure have some nerve calling others shills with that post history.
 

GHG

Gold Member
I just use the ignore button. Going for the high score currently. Lot of losers on here with nothing better to do than try and make everyone else as miserable as they are. GHG GHG hasn't even had a lunch break in over 10 years. He comes on here when he's hungry and rants about Xbox, which is all the time.

Do you miss me or something? I'm sorry that Xbox are making you feel frustrated again so you need to lash out.

Are you being bullied again?

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What comes next is him claiming he's under attack despite instigating everything as he always does.
 

deriks

4-Time GIF/Meme God
I heard that Final Fantasy didn't sell with Xbox, so they're doing XVI and others except VII remake...

I call it bullshit
 

akira__

Banned
When I talk old Xbox crew in the thread you link I mean people like Gone, Catlady, even Sensusage or whatever he was called and yeah they’re all banned or have left. Can’t blame them either way.

Ah SenjutsuSage the one that started the rumor and even a website that the Xbox one would have a secret sauce.

Man it's tough being part of that crew. You have the whole of reality against you. Damn always a victim.
 

GHG

Gold Member
Ah SenjutsuSage the one that started the rumor and even a website that the Xbox one would have a secret sauce.

Man it's tough being part of that crew. You have the whole of reality against you. Damn always a victim.

This is the guy they are begging to have back:




It's just comedy at this point. Imagine surrounding yourself with these people and thinking it's everyone else that is in the wrong.
 
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