Square Enix really shot themselves in the foot by making their biggest releases PS5 exclusive. They didn’t perform poorly, but they didn’t meet sales targets, which is bound to happen when you limit your audience base while trying to make up for massive budgets. Everyone wins with their newfound commitment to make their future major releases multiplatform.

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Cut the exclusivity crap and set realistic financial goals, there you go SE, problem solved. Betting on twos games to solved all of the bombed games is laughable. Trying to attract investors while setting unrealistic goal only means losses, but the real ppl taking the hit are the ground floor crews, not those execs. Stop giving us what we gamers don’t want. we vote with our wallets, SE learn this the hard way.

But will they commit to making cross platform mobile games!!!!! They are so scared of making cross platform titles upsetting

Sony would be sitting on a gold mine if they would have Square Enix remake Legend of Dragoon with as detailed an open world as Rebirth

Also may I add that there are way more PC gamers than console.

I thought final fantasy 16 met expectations for square and as of now we still haven’t heard sales numbers on rebirth. I also feel like square is still trying to recover from past fumbles like avengers and Babylons fall. I’m whatever with the whole exclusive rather it was a game only on ps or only switch cool more people can play them. Of course I have a feeling the games will take longer to come out but will see. Would love to see octopath traveler 1 finally show up on PlayStation.

Well, yet again. These should have been released on PC as well. I have no problem waiting for it to come to PC but they really need to start releasing them AT THE SAME TIME. Most gamers forget and move on to something else by the time it releases for PC.

“Curb your Expectations, Square Enix.”

I am not surprised the price of a digital download is criminal

Exclusive games are what helped the competitor platforms grow as it would push them to have their own unique exclusives (either in-house studios or 3rd party studios). Also exclusive games from 3rd party studios for PlayStation, are what made playstation unique and special, which helped in sales of the console as well as the games. Same can be said for XBOX. Exclusivity worked back then, but considering the cost of video game development now, exclusive games wouldn’t be viable anymore for the studios, because there’s not enough profit to be made.

Video game development costs really need to go back down. Spending £/$100m+ just to make a single game just seems crazy to me. This really needs to be investigated as to why.

The weird thing is… This probably didn’t seem like a bad idea a few years ago. PS4 did amazingly, so exclusivity for it’s follow-up probably seemed like it could work.

And then the myriad problems of this generation began to rear their ugly head, and only NOW does it seem obvious in hindsight.

Wow you mean limiting the players would mean less sells?!

Exclusives are bad for Xbox, yet this happened, lol.

Tables have turned.

All they gotta do, is just re-release classics like XenoGears, Parasite eve, Vagrant Story etc on all platforms.
Doesn’t even need to be a remastered, just port the ps1 version, sell it 15$ Dumb folks like me will still buy even tho they are easily emulated. And Profit.

Stop using takashi mochhizuki, all he does is spread misinformation!

FF7 part three gunna be a PS5 EXCLUSIVE!!!!!

You’re using Bloomberg as a source…SMH

There games gunna sell more on PS and Nintendo, putting games on Xbox is a waste!

Sony and SE are gunna keep doing deals!

Finally, I stopped caring about consoles years ago, but couldn’t play this because I only have a gaming laptop. Pissed when I found out I couldn’t even purchase either. Exclusivity is a dead concept

I like how executives justify their stupidly greedy salaries by claiming they have the risk of responsibility but then always shove the responsibility of their decisions on the lower employees who get laid off. Really need to regulate the 10%. If you can’t fail then you don’t deserve a high salary.

“Square Enix” should upset with themselves. Exclusivity has nothing to do with their sales at all. Even having a game on all platforms won’t guarantee an increase of sales. It’s not a guarantee that people are going to buy your product all the time…get with the times share holders.

loved guardians of the galaxy great game

Also, they need to get away from Sony anyway. Get away from Sony’s censorship.

I want to play all those games. I’m just waiting for them to come out on pc. Especially the ff7 remake.

No surprise here.. shouldve released for everyone to play.. they chose the bed and now must lie in it

Reminder that Square stained the Final fantasy brand for a decade. The 13 Trilogy bomb and 15 was an unfinished mess that needed DLC and animes just to flesh out its story and 5 main characters.

4:00 “sharing game making how-how…” ?
could it be that they meant “know-how”?

I have PS5, I completed FFVII Rebirth on it. But man wish I could play it on my PC, I could have enjoyed it with much better graphic and with better FPS.

Their prices are way to high down here to… but that’s going on with all japanese games latelly, don’t know if it’s tax or some messed up conversion or both, but it’s getting quite hard to buy japanese games, it’s like, over (br)R$275,00 on sale

Hey whatever it takes to keep the boat afloat 🤷‍♂️ release them all for Xbox and pc also

About time square stopped with exclusivity

Square learns that selling in 1 platform is a dumbass idea.

This could be signs of a paradigm shift for the better. I have been tired of Sony’s double standards/censorship/hypocrisy. If Capcom and Sony just aim for releases on PC the same time as PS5+…then maybe Sony might get their head out of their asses and improve. If not, well it wouldnt be the first console to die because they failed to adapt.

I do pray they dont try to port FF7RM and similar titles to switch. If I wanted to play the pixelated version of the game, I’d go back to the original.

Platform/Console exclusivity is a joke. No one wants that shit.

easy fix to this, make a proper Chrono Trigger sequel and make it multi platform

They waited way too long

we need DRAGONBORN ACT III

I don’t think they are getting the memo and they won’t get it until they are having their final fantasy if you will. They keep spamming out action games because of some stupid marketing meta but actually, they left the goal open so that other turn based games can kick their ass.

You know why we don’t get good new games it’s because people keep buying “remasters” & “remakes” it’s yalls fault

I’m just not a fan of the gameplay of the latest FF 12 was the peak, 13 was ok but then it started to decline with 15, If I wanted to play and action game or action RPG, I would be playing a different franchise.

This will add nothing FF stocks have been in decline because of stupidity of the games I couldn’t finish FF7 remake so yaaak

FF16 was a good game but FF7 rebirth is one of the best game in recent years period, I can’t understand why it was not a massive success!
It doesn’t matter if it was multiplatform or otherwise i just hope his will not affect the franchise.

I didnt buy FFR on ps5 bc it sucked and under powered compared to how much better it would be on PC/Steam

Which makes me question how nintendo still is able to make a profit from their exclusives. While the others struggle

Won’t change nothing. Xbox gamers don’t buy games. 3rd sales show that. Sales of final fantasy on Xbox are less then 9%. The games aren’t going to gp…

covids long gone, ppl arent playing games as much, so the incentive to be the Most accessible game for casuals with low attention spans who want quick fix endophin dumps, leaves youvwith a GENERIC GAME in a SEA of GENERIC GAMES. That Niche group who so loved your style of games, is gone. Paradox will learn this too. wheres city skylines 2 for xbox. most fun ive had in a longtime is on stardew valley. wtf lol

where THE FK is our NEW TACTICS game huh. no more turn based shallow kiddie fkin tactics games for hand helds. pos company. they dont like money ? They dont act like they do. instead they wanna bring pos dragons quest.

i dont care anymore, they dont make great games like they used to. they changed the core mechanics of ff7 to what, bring in noob casuals ? lazy fickle customers ???? pos Square Enix is money hungry just like EA blizard etc

What did you expect it’s on one console and the ps5 isn’t backwards compatible with ps4 or below, the games made for the ps5 that is, FF rebirth and FF16 both exlusive to only a ps5 will limit the sales and income , what did you expect SquareEnix?? Not to mention how FF16 isn’t really a FF game anymore and becamre more of a devil may cry style, that’s on you Square again.

Ah as expected. Maybe they also shouldn’t have released the games in separate years and intervals. I nearly lost interest, so if I did…pretty sure people waiting for a story that most people know today. Not the best marketing move. Should have been released all at once. Also, hard mode sucks. I’m nearly giving up since this crap is extremely unbeatable and if I do beat it, I don’t want to spend another 6 hours getting nowhere.

LMAO do publishers hate money now?

I think I speak for a lot of PC players, but Square has shot themselves in the foot and have clearly shown that they care more about partnerships with executives and not PC consumers. Don’t worry. Even if they release their games on PC, we won’t be looking for it. You’ve lost our interest. Your executives can go buy it.

Lets be honest jst releasing on Playstation alone was the nail in the coffin weather most people play on Playstation, its obvious its not enough to sustain certain games. Like how are they surprised its doing bad sales wise when you onlg released it on only what platform you have to wonder😂🤦‍♂️

Are we reaching the beginning of the stage where platform exclusives will become a thing of the past?

I hope they release both for Xbox cause I love FF but exclusivelity is so lame and annoying. I get it when it’s a Sony made and published game and Microsoft, etc. 3rd party though, why miss out on potential money aka more systems and potential fans? So we’ll see…. Although I know Square did the same thing in past with the Awesome DUES Ex mankind divided it didn’t meet its internal sales goals, and they ended up selling the game off to a company whom then closed 😢

Its not their fault really. Its just ps5 dont have a good game that will makes people buy it. Like bloodborne for the ps4 before

I don’t see a problem putting the game on other systems

Square Enix expections is for everyone who owns a PlayStation 5 to buy the game.

game companies: *sells games for $120+* WHY AREN’T WE SELLING MORE UNITS?????

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By Square Enix Logic, Mario and Zelda should go third party!

Ff16 and rebirth isn’t even released yet

A lot of brain-dead takes in here:

1. Square Enix aren’t stopping PS5 exclusivity for games in development that are being funded by PlayStation. People need to stop being brain-dead and understand why a PlayStation-funded game would be PlayStation-only OR PlayStation-PC-only.

2. Square Enix cannot magically make their games sell on a dead platform for software (Xbox) and a platform that does not have a massive appetite for single-player Final Fantasy games (PC). People need to stop being brain-dead and look at the past sales performance of FF games on non-PlayStation platforms. For the love of God, try to remember that these companies are businesses that want and need to make money. If an Xbox/PC version costs them $32M and they don’t expect to make that money back, why would they port to those platforms? I promise you if you use your brain it will all make sense. Think about the sales potential of their games on platforms that have a history of not buying their ‘main’ games. If the numbers for Xbox and PC are all pointing to financial losses, why would they — a business — step on the gas and crash straight into red ink? Just think about it.

3. Square Enix can’t magically make their games run on a severely underpowered platform (Switch) and radically different platforms (iOS and Android). People need to stop being brain-dead and understand why they can’t magically ‘port’ 100GB+ games to platforms that barely support 1080p resolutions. Just think about it and it will make sense.

4. Square Enix’s internal sales projections are horrendously unrealistic for PlayStation 5. The PS5 has about half the installbase of the PS4. Expecting a 60M platform to deliver better software results than a 117M platform is unrealistic.

We’ve gotta stop being dummies and actually understand why these businesses make the decisions they make.

If they didn’t include minigame after minigame after minigame after minigame after minigame in FF7 rebirth, it may have sold better.

Seriously, enough minigames.

Just be clear when squaring it stops publishing shitty fucking games they might make more money

Seriously, phone stars phone stars required PlayStation plus to play right but then it was given as a free monthly game to PlayStation plus users so how the fuck could it not meet expectations free to play and nobody played it tell you something about the game it’s a shit game a stupid ass fucking concept what more thought that was going to be a popular game yet another cash app delivery mechanism that failed because that’s all phone stars is It’s just a game that attaches you to a cash app so that you’ll buy cosmetics and shit I mean, for instance you can buy cosmetics to change the color of your phone phone that the premise the basis of this game and they unhappy with the revenue generated when the entire game isa cash shop

SquareEnix judging their best games off of their own poor decision making. They published multiple titles that have failed the mark and think it’s FF16 and FF7R? Their biggest losses come from Marvel Avengers and Babylon’s Fall. So they wishfully thought the FF titles were going to make up for their bad mistakes? This generation of Gamers need to realize that some exclusivity is required, it’s a driving force for innovation. It’s not to exclude an entire player base section. Don’t expect current contract licensed games to all of a sudden become multiplatform either.

And it’s going down.. shame

Expectations are just wishful thinking there’s no math or science involved in expectation. There’s no way to predict five or six years in advance how your game is going to come out it’s not possible you’re not God like you don’t have presents. You have no idea. Hell you have no idea what the gaming industries even gonna look like in six years I don’t know how long for instance Final Fantasy 16 took to develop, but it was almost certainly at least five year project, there’s no way to guess how that’s gonna turn out anyone who says they can is full of shit so you know you do your best and how it turns out is how it turns out hopefully for the hundreds of millions just spent you make that money back in the first week But like anything new motion franchise game in any franchise or a new franchise they’re always gambles you take a shot presume things in and make it attractive to the player bases but if you fail, it’s just a failure. It might be $100 million failure but still that’s what it is, that’s what for smoking was

Hi dog, I played Final Fantasy 16. The trial and I thought it was way too much dialogue out of action when there was action. It was pretty good. The graphics were good. The performance was good, but it’s just another single player game in a long drawn out franchise full of single player game, work into reworking Final Fantasy 14 giving it the same graphics levels a better voice, active story something where I don’t have to sit there and quick dialogues you know something elder scrolls online esq shit, single game no matter how pretty the combat. It’s just a limited chance of being successful come on you’re not even mentioning or an object failure.

remember guys, if a game company does a single bad thing, everything else they do is also bad (no exceptions)

didnt put it on pc and it fails shocking. it’s almost like they could recover that in 5 seconds by putting it all on steam

No doubt about about Final Fantasy 16 high-quality game just not popular. Doesn’t have shit to do with that being exclusive on PlayStation and it isn’t because of those two games either they’re just making excuses to shareholder. They had a terrible year with white white very badly received games some of them like for spoken shit game I mean bullshit show of a game, final fantasy seven is nothing but a remake I’ll be at home according to all reviews a good remake, but it’s a remake of a game Final Fantasy 16. I don’t know why that one was badly received, but all of those games were badly received. They would’ve been for spoken, for instance going to be a shit game on any platform, the shit game it’s still gonna be a shit game on Xbox. It’s gonna be a shit game everywhere. Doesn’t have anything to do with exclusivity. It’s just a shit game. They’re all badly game and the company lost money and in every situation of the day about why you point fingers that’s what corporate America does, never accept blame you never say well we put out a shit game and we made no money on it. You don’t say that because you get fired over that shit you try to find a viable excuse or someone you can point the finger at some reason and in this case they’re using PlayStation exclusivitywhen I believe they’ve only ever had sex five or six exclusive games that PlayStation out of the 40 or 50 how many of those were shit games that failed the bottom line is you make a shit game it doesn’t matter what platform is on it’s still going to fail

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You onlyc4 fts bro

Who would’ve thought that selling a game in a console that no one owns is going to make people not buy it.

Listen if these people would come down from their “clouds” and see that a lot of people are disillusioned with a lot of video games due to shitty releases of games that could be great and expecting people to spend thousands of dollars on consoles and video games…ike he said with the decline of the economy and prices going up…how do they expect to just go out of our way to spend $60-$150 on a game that is mediocre to ok with a good chunk of us having to spend that much just to survive with expensive groceries and bills. Its ridiculous

Square enix doesn’t know how to tell new interesting sorties anymore

Just sell on all platforms

I’m sorry, but so far, FF7 Rebirth is hands down game of the year. Facts.

well really ff7 rebirth wasnt the FULL COMPLETE FF7 so i myself didnt purchase nor still havent purchased because i want the FULL GAME not a episodic to be added later

I’ve never understood why people think exclusivity is a good thing. It limits the reach of a game. If you really enjoy a game, why would you want less people to experience it?

This would be great, I have not bought FFVII Rebirth yet because I am waiting for the PC release. I used to just buy the playstation game and then if it came to PC I would buy it again but these days I just can’t afford to buy games twice over and I know I am going to break down and get the PC release regardless so this would be great. I still have not played God Of War Ragnarok because I am waiting for a PC release and it is very frustrating that it has not come to PC yet. The last games I purchased on Playstation were Ghost of Tsushima and God of War.

NO GAMES, I DONT KNOW WHY, THERES NOTHING TO PLAY ON MY PS5

if rebirth wasnt exclusive i would have been wanting to play it day 1 on pc

Yeah I think catering to the shareholders left to bad decisions like the marvel live service flop. Those were biggest problems. Final Fantasy did well. It was unrealistic expectations across the board. Square is getting paid a ton for a one year exclusivity. Highly doubt that is the problem here

When will these corpos realize people don’t poop out money

Nah, I personally think it’s because they think the “3 disk” released would work, in a world where our attention span last shorter than a male japanese pornstar hold their ejaculation on-set.

Square Enix acts like a 40 years old milf milking an overworked office worker’s jizz. What did they expect, a satisfying ending?

Now they got desperate enough to open their “product” to EVERYONE.

the problem with squenix and thier games are 2 fold. first, they probably expect the revenue from their games to be too high, they are not happy with profit, they probably want massive profit. Second, they dont know how to write a story and the remakes suffered so much from it. FF7 remake and rebirth are beautiful games, and the gameplay is very good but the story is so bad its a joke, its like a carricature. ppl like sephiroth so put him at the begining of the game, sepiroth has an iconic scene in fire so put that same scene in the begining of the game. ppl liked the story, so lets make it different and confusing so no one really know we have no idea what we are doing. ppl like zack, so just shove it in there too. In the end, its ok to change the story, if its going to be a as good or better one, but what we got is a confusing mess with no respect for the actual game, and on top of that they shove the lore of their gatcha scammy mobile game. Squenix is about short term, all and I say ALL of their games have been underperforming because of stupid decisions.

This is also PlayStation fault. Why would you buy a slim model. Even Sony is going to release the PS5 PRO this holiday season. The Smart ldea should have been . To make the slim version affordable and a reason for people doesn’t want to have a pro consle .

Square Enix is bad at marketing but make great games. Crisis core. Ff7 remake, 77f rebirth , ff7 interlude? How the hell are new fans supoosed to understand all the title differences ? They all sound like the same game and 100dollar dlc extensions…

We’ve been known foamstars is coming to other platforms in August due to disclaimers on their trailers, and i really hope it does well there because it’s one ot the swaggiest and funniest shooters I’ve played in a bit, and I don’t want it to die do soon when every update has been s banger. They listened to the community with constant updates fixing bugs and issues, they even fixed their overpriced microtransactions, lowering prices of all of em and that kind of communication and action deserves to succeed in a gaming world that has so many companies ignoring their player base

The PS5 is dead. You heard it here first. Sony and Microsoft will bow out of the console wars either this gen or possibly 1 more. Nintendo has won.

Square lost their way after Advent Children came out.

Square Enix releases literally any game: “This game failed to meet our unrealistic expectations.”

To be honest it’s been a long time since I truly loved a FF game, and the FF7 Remake is just garbage in my opinion, know some people love it and that’s fine but I detest it, so it may not be so much platform exclusivity as just disappointing games, because user and critic reviews are two metrics, yes, but so are sales. That being said when you’re “On _____ only” and your company name isn’t Nintendo, then you might have a few problems with sales and when you’re a 3rd party doing it…then “TF were you thinking?!?!?”

They definitely should have had sinultaneous pc releases for their latest titles. XBox wouldn’t have been any help though. Not enough consoles on that front and XBox gamers are notorious for not buying games.

Investors should already disappointed by way of their terrible investment decisions. All that web3 ai shite was not poppin’. They can still make the Dissidia game fans were asking for. They already have the character models.

While it makes sense that exclusivity hurts sales, I also wonder how much the sales were hurt by the shift in style of game that FF7R and FF16 took.

I hope they dont release it first on Epic now aswell then… It sucks to wait another year after ps exclusivity ends for them to release on PC.. (Steam)

Square Enix is just a massive disappointment to all their fans. They’ve repeatedly done so many things that were against their loyal fanbase’s interests. The PC market is so much more worth it than consoles are nowadays.

Jee its almost like they need to branch out instead of strictly make it for one console. To get more sales. They tried doing it with kingdom hearts but that failed on the switch.

All those exclusive suck. I’ve always wanted to play for forza… ,but I refuse to own a microsoft xbox

Hopefully their Switch exclusives also come to PlayStation and Xbox.

Does anyone play their mobile games? I think getting rid of the excluvity is to cover the cost of the mobile games nobody plays and their major push for a live service that will not do well.

Lmfao it really took them this long to realize they’ve been limiting their source of income?

Foamstars was just a crappy splatoon rip off that was never gonna sell copies nor microtransactions cuz its just a copy of splatoon which also didn’t sell very well in the west. On top of the fact that no one is mentioning forsaken being utterly trash. While being on all platforms benefits somewhat doesn’t it also cost more to put them on multiple platforms and if you don’t grab a handful you wasted money? Also I think FF16 was overrated game was basically just a 12 hour movie. First time playing a FF game.

Hahahahahaha

For me, the straw that broke the camels back was when they made Street Fighter 5 a PlayStation exclusive. I was so livid and have been anti console exclusives ever since. If it’s 1st party then fine, but 3rd party published games should never be exclusive. Phil was at least right on this aspect

its almost as if exclusivity only works as a marketing strategy if every company is doing it…

Exclusives make sense if the console maker put their own money into a project (IE, Bayonetta with Nintendo. Which I know is contentious, but do you think we would have gotten 2 and 3 from Platinum without Nintendo or someone footing the bill?)

It doesn’t make sense when it’s something like Square-Enix. Fine, contracts, I get it, those are a headache unto themselves, but they released their older FF games on Steam, they ought to have the metric to know it would be stupid gating 16 and Rebirth to PS5.

Sony with their titanic mass censorship, licensing of voices and weird agreements has lead us to this point. It’s fitting this should end this way. SE sold its soul to the devil… and now they want to get it back. They aren’t the only AAA developer kicking themselves over this issue right now i’m sure. **cough**StellarBlade**cough*cough. Lol.

Finally Can’t wait for the ports to come in Xbox/PC/and probably Switch.

Im sure it sold fine. They just want more bc thats what they’re used to

I would’ve bought day one if released on steam… now I just wait for the game to eventually come out on pc.

Console gaming is becoming antiquated. The gaming market is saturated with PCs, so there’s no point for consumers to buy a console unless their too impatient to wait for the PC release of a game. And people have less money to spare because of greedflation across all industries, meaning fewer people are willing to pay the price of indulging in that luxury of impatience.

It was an excellent decision for Squaresoft to divorce from Nintendo and deal with Sony nearly 30 years ago, but the market landscape has changed dramatically since then. It’s time to pivot again. This will hurt Sony, but this is because Sony has also failed to adapt to the current market. Sony needs to make some major changes to continue being relevant; maybe transition from being a console manufacturer to be a game publisher like SEGA became, or manufacture gpus/modular pc prebuilds, or develop a hybrid console that can compete fiercely against Nintendo Switch.

I would have bought and played FF16 but I don’t have a PS5, I’m hyped for Dawntrail though!

Well I mean EA has implemented ads in the past and so well in fact that I dont think anyone has mentioned it. But if anyone has played NFS Underground 2, OG Most Wanted, Burnout 3 or above, they all had in game ads as billboards. I don’t remember anyone complaining about those. So just an example of implementation done well.

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Somebody avoiding talking about Assassin’s Creed

squareenix : how in the hell we dont have at least 10m sales with our games BEING ONLY on ps5 at release ??
i wonder why, maybe it because they did not release them on xbox and pc too?
but yeah go ahead, take your few millions sony gave ya, right LUL

“We want to invite you to our How How Pow-Wow” 😂

In the world of finance, this is called diversification, which helps mitigate risk by spreading things out so that everything isn’t in one location.

If only sony understood how much more money they can make by ending exclusivity deals because the die hard fans are going to buy a playstation anyway

I get Sony pays them for the exclusive deal, but its essentially cutting your profits of sales in half since your only catering to 1 clientele instead of the wide market that is PC and console.

can’t wait to see it on xbox

Considering that PC has surpassed console gaming as a whole in market share, it would be just stupid to not release there for any game.

A good example of this is helldiver’s 2 which is published by Sony, there are more PC players than there are PS players

That means that Yoshi-P can finally share some of his “secrets” with the rest of his company. And by “secrets”, I mean that the secret ingredient is always love. 💌

I know this has probably nothing to do with this, but the naming convention for the FF7 remakes have always bugged me. FF7 Remake Intergrade and FF7 Rebirth are too interchangeable and frankly confusing for people new to the series. When I first saw the name Rebirth, I actually thought it was a reboot of Remake. I had to do research to find out it was a sequel. Why not just simply call it FF7 Remake Part I/II?

I guess my point is I love Square Enix but they make some unnecessarily weird choices sometimes 🤷‍♂️

SQUEENIX

I would have bought both FF7 Rebirth and FF16 had they came out on Series X. I only buy one system a generation they are getting too expensive.

I swear with FF16 it changes every few days. Sometimes it met expectations. Then two days later it didn’t. Then they were satisfied again. And then it failed again the next day.

FF7 Rebirth as much as like there is 2 much shit in it woky woky.. and i think the throw off for users is that this is also not the final game as it was with the first part where we where disapointed what this will be split game. I bought rebirth but not gonna buy 3 part basicly i think number will go down more but who knows 😉

Exclusivity was never my thing. Good riddance!

If Square Enix still wants to double down on NFTs, they’ll need every platform they can sell their dumb products on

Lol this guy didnt quit after he got roasted to high heaven for the yakuza crap?

Love to see Sony taking Ls

exclusivity is the worse thing about consoles

they both didn’t sell 60 milion copies so they underperformed…

In today’s world, there’s no reason to have platform exclusive titles. It limits sales and exposure to a wild range of gamers who would otherwise enjoy and play those games. The only company that can get away with that is Nintendo, their consoles are built specifically for their titles bc they’re pretty much useless for any other titles that are from outside

the only reason Nintendo gets away with exclusivity is because of how many huge titles are exclusive to the platform. It’s too late for Playstation and XBOX to get in on that.

as a ps fan, good, exclusives suck. thanks to exclusivity I can’t enjoy es6 on my couch.

Maybe FF7 should have been an actual remake instead of turning it into KH4

third party devs making their games exclusive to one paltform has got to be one of the most stupid decisions ive ever seen lmao

When you walk into a restaurant and theres piles of crumbs all over the floor and you walk up to the register : “daddys here he heard you were a dirty girl and needed a spanking”.

The only problem I see here is that SE wanted these games to make every single amount of monumental money the world had to offer within 3 days of releasing, and because they didn’t they’re flops to them. It’s almost like SE doesn’t realise these games will never stop being available to buy or make money for just existing.
(also it would help if these games were genuinely good, i.e. if your game is genuinely good, people WILL buy it no matter what)

I love how they are blaming FF16 and FF7: Rebirth, two games which actually sold, and are not blaming Forespoken and Marvel’s Avengers, two gigantic flops, for the loss of revenue.

Maybe if they didn’t make it a PS5 exclusive? Not enough people have a PS5 even some games that go multiplatform don’t even go the distance

SE should also look at quality issues causing users to stop buying their games with crap like Forspoken and Marvels Avengers. I don’t necessarily think it is a PS5 exclusive issue since they’ve done well with it before, but it’s good to see it possibly pushing for more platforms. Also, there was controversy around FF16’s direction which may have soured sales. I personally got bored with FF16 and never finished it.

I loved FF7 originally; I am in the demographic that would have enjoyed a remake. But, I am not going to pay multiple game prices for a single game cut into chunks. So it costs a lot of money? Not my problem; and apparently i’m not the only one unwilling to foot the bill. Should’ve figured out a better way.

SE just has to temper and lower their expectations at this point.

While the news about FF7 sales is disappointing, the news about Square Enix pulling out of exclusivity is fantastic! Stop releasing exclusives on PS5, and sell your games on all platforms. I was under the impression that Sony paid very well, to keep these games only on PlayStation. We now know that Sony is not paying enough, and it’s sad. Exclusives do not benefit anyone, except for the company your game is on. Sony doesn’t care about their publishers and the studios under them. All Sony PlayStation cares about, is having exclusives games on their console only, so that they can sell more consoles and get more PlayStation Plus Subscribers. Time after time, we continue to see publishers with incredible studios continue to lose money, and Sony knows it. In my opinion, the only exclusives games for a consoles, should only come from studios who are owned by the console brand, such as PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo. If your company is not owned by either Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, or Nintendo, never release your games to only one of their platforms, or you will continue to lose money under these giants. These giants are all about making deals, who write checks for exclusivity, with the promise that your games will do better under them, and it never works. It will never work. Even Sony knows that their games aren’t going to profit as well as they could, but they eat it anyways, because they make up for it with more consoles sales and more psn subscribers. Publishers and the studios under them should never have to eat anything under these guys, unless the game is a trumenduse failure. When it comes to Square Enix, they have absolutely nothing to worry about not being under Sony’s wings, because this is a publisher who knows how to deliver exceptional high-quality games. I’m not a fan of any publisher, due to their god awful business tactics, who’s daily fixations are strategizing about how to extract as much money from their customers hands, all without breaking any laws. That being said, if I had to pick my favorite publisher, it would have to be Square Enix. The vast majority of the games Square Enix ships out, aren’t buggy, they are priced right, and it feels like you’re getting every cent out of your $70 purchase. If I wa Square Enix, I’d hold off firing from firing or closing down your studios, and continue to create incredible games, now that you’ve freed yourself from Sony’s exclusivity, which was the fundamental cause for the loss of profit. The more these publishers continue to close down studios, the less games are made, which means the less money you’re going to make. I do not understand the firing calls being made right now, because it’s going to bite them in the ass. Publishers are only thinking about how much money they can make now, instead of investing for the future, and it boggles my mind. Games take a long time to make, but the payoff in the end is worth it. Heck, I’d keep a Studio even if we broke even on the deal. No loss or gain isn’t a big deal. Why? It shows that you as a publisher have more games in the fire than the other guys. Question: If you are a shareholder, who would you pick to invest your money with? Do you invest in a company with only 5 high-quality games in the works, or a company with 20+ high-quality games in the works? I’d pick the company with 20+ high-quality games cooking, and just patiently wait it out. Sure, there are other factors that Sony and Microsoft will try to push on you, to convince to you about other ways to make money with them. At the end of the day, a video game company with more studios and games retailing for $60 or $70 each, will always win. It’s not that complicated. Imagine you’re a kid again, and you’re out trick or treating on Halloween. One house is giving you 1 piece of candy, and then you hear another house is giving out handfuls of candy… You’re going to hall ass to that house giving out handfuls of candy. You might even change masks, and go back to that house. Next year, you’ll remember that house who gives out handfuls of candy, and it’ll be your first stop. That reputation established is the same concept with video game companies, and I don’t care what they say. All I want to know is how many games do you have, and how many games you don’t have, before making an investment decision.

Cause the games sucked. Look at God of war, Ragnarok, ratchet and clank, bloodborne and horizon on how exclusive games should be.

Excited to play ff7 part three on ps6 in a decade or so yay… thats part of the problem with rebirth not selling well. Plus most people I know didn’t get a ps5 they got new pcs

Square Enix copying Microsofts homework….

As an Xbox customer, I needed this good news.

Honestly, anyone who makes games should be dropping Sony like a bag of rocks. They haven’t been shy about hurting the brands of game makers that work with them, killing their partners bottom lines chasing their own weird agenda. At this point Sony is poison and the industry needs to figure that out.

SE should really cut ties with KuSony before becoming one of hundreds of devs/IPs that’s been put down over the 3 decades. KuSony doesn’t care about the games or devs, all they want is to sell their garbage platform by any means necessary. Heck, all devs that’s have contract with KuSony should just terminate their contracts for their own good.

Imagine sony ponies failing to buy their own games – so sony decides to release them on other platforms lmao.

The reason Final Fantasy games fall short of revenue and profit is because the fan base for those games is astronomically small compared to the overall fan base of Sony.

In a nutshell, just because you wussy’s like Final Fantasy doesn’t mean everyone else likes it

Nah, they just need to make RPGS. Stop with the dumb ass devil may cry games. Ff16 is not a ff. It’s a dmc clone. SE is not se anymore in my opinion. At least the Enix part has dq games I hope

They have made this game 17 times and I ha e never played a single one. I’ll still never play it. Stay on shitstation

Titles that don’t innovate and are exclusive to a single platform don’t sell well.
Imagine that.

Idk with how much budgets are for games, exclusivity deals are going to start dying out imo games if they keep going are gonna start costing 4 or even 500 million to make one and that’s a big risk or generations are going to start being longer

Does this mean they will port ff7 rebirth to other consoles? I have literally everything EXCEPT ps5

A few million more dollars when games come to xbox

Oh wow, sounds like PS players don’t buy games.

Games Exclusivity means less time and resources for a game developer to test a game, If they choose for non-exclusivity, they need shell-out more MONEY and TIME in testing the game from different types of systems(PS/XBOX/PC). game developing isn’t “one size fits all”,. Games settings needs to be tweaked rigorously (from startup to end credits/to every side quests and to every mini games/every FMVs) to fit different types of system and technology (PS/XBOX systems), Moreover a different types PC architectures(AMD/Radeon : Intel/Nvidia). Do you know how hard to port an Iphone games to an Android phones? almost doubling the resources and time needed. So good luck on their budget.

Now when we getting The Bouncer Remake?!

At least the development team aren’t being blamed.. You may love rebirth or hate it but I still feel a huge amount or care was put in that game even if you don’t agree with the way it turned out

Honestly good for them.

Or maybe start making great games again and not this fan service garbage they are pumping out.

Injured??? Good!!! let them sweat a little now……😶

Square Enix has made mediocre games for the last 10 years. FF16 was boring and FF7 Rebirth was way way too goofy. It’s no wonder they continue to fail.

Ruin the story of one of the greatest RPGs of our childhood and I wonder why no one wants to play. I wouldn’t play any more of this series even if I got paid

Exclusively to me in general is Exclusively dumb from all the dumbness it has like if a company truly want money they pull a put me on everything like how fortnite yea it a dumb thing but it the only game that no joke i can say i kill someone on a dang refrigerator!

This is a square Enix management problem. They are never satisfied with the sales of any game no matter how great it may have performed then they get pissy that they won’t hit their projected 3 trillion in sales.

A good news, they need to realize that ff xvi direction was a mistake, shifting away from jrpg into action. And splitting one game into 3 game remake lol. Exclusivity in not alone at fault here.

Well, bad sales leads to sales, I’ll buy them when they are reasonable price

Third party exclusivity shouldn’t be a thing.
I understand console manufacturer exclusivity to increase hardware sales…but third party? It makes absolutely no sense, no matter how you look at it.

Glad you aren’t covering the stupid manufactured Drama going on with Assassins Creed and everyone losing their shit over a lore accurate character.

If they bring FF7 remake to xbox I’ll be buying all the games in the series

I just hope FF XIV gets released in the next Nintendo console (I doubt it’ll happen during the Switch remaining life span).
Eorzea will receive the new adventurers with open arms ♥

Exclusivity is anti-gamer.

Corpos don’t want our money, they want ALL our money.

Exclusivity is that will bring a gaming crash, it did before. Sony and these companies need to watch their greed or the bubble will pop soon, almost did these past few years.

Wait a minute. If FF16 & 17 were PS 5 was exclusives, then how was i able to play on pc? 🏴‍☠️ Such a strange situation I found myself in. 🏴‍☠️

Square Enix sets their expectations too high. Most games would be glad to sell as many copies as FF-7R and FF-16 have.

But I call this a win for players if it means no more exclusives.

Square Enix reporting disappointing sales of their latest titles?

So……. business as usual then?

i thought about half the PS5 owners had either FF16 or FF7 Rebirth, which is an impressive feat. I just thought that the games were also out on PS4, i guess i was mistaken.

Let’s not forget that this is all Square Enix’s fault for blowing all their money on worthless projects with not future that has them in such a precarious position

So they aren’t coming to pc😢 don’t want a ps5

About FFVII rebirth, leaving PS4 behind on the second title of a 3 part game was a bit of a dick move imho. I know PS4 it’s pretty old by now (and I’m probably alone with this) but If you are going to leave a story incomplete on a platform because it’s too old why bother in the first place.

I’m sorry, but as this video goes on all I hear is billionaires complaining they couldn’t make a few billion more.

that’s awesome, this always needed to release on pc at the same time

Sale definitely wouldve been better had it been on pc. That should be cool

Making investors happy is the death of videogames. Also the GAME ISN’T COMPLETED. The full game together will sell harder than any other PART.
New Final fantasy 7 was alright. I don’t think they were able to hit the mark of awesomeness the OG was able to capture. I think they fell about 25% on the awesomeness scale vs the original 100%
There were TOOOO many extra things that weren’t needed and they ruined the death of AERIS

Yeah, can´t wait for those polished ports for PC platform SE is well know for.

Console exclusivity is nothing but an artificial sales constraint, utterly pointless in the age of digital distribution.

As someone who used to be a MASSIVE fan of Final Fantasy, I probably won’t pick up FFXVI or FFVRebirth even if they came to Xbox until I find them heavily discounted. If either of these games came out with some semblance of turn-based or menu-driven combat, I would have gone out and bought a PS5 just for them. But, if Square is insistent on putting out hack-and-slash action games under the Final Fantasy brand, I’ll continue to pass on them. I did buy and play FF7Remake when it launched and gave it a fair chance. But, after seeing the direction they went with it, I am not very interested at all in the rest of the remake trilogy.

What they said is that the games were doing fine, but they didn’t make the profits needed to offset all the bad decisions made that killed their profits. They literally had a 17% revenue increase and sales numbers were up, but things like cancelling multiple games intended for releases 2027 and up completely destroyed any possible profitability.

It’s funny that everyone harps on the 3 games released exclusively on PS, when they also released 9 games exclusively on Switch in the same timeframe that barely sold 1 million copies.

Just be like Rockstar release it for consoles then polish the game for a year or two and release for PC win win there will be a lot of people who buy both on console and PC.

To be fair theres less ff fans these days those games are mid. Has nothing to do with exclusiveness. The sales would have been the same still. Rebirth is a very very mid game

1st party and 2nd party mean exclusive right? 3rd party means on all platform?

Maybe dont make games that cost more than adding modules to the international space station

They must have got paid something by Sony for being PS exclusive, else why do it?

Ff remake part 2, only 30 percent of people finished part 1. Obviously people aren’t buying that till they finish the first game. Company should have seen this

Wanted to play FF16 then realised it’s not on Steam… (yet)

About damn time for exclusivity to die off. Time to release it for every platform.

Maybe they’re just weak games.

I’m starting to think business is all just making it to the top, kicking the ladder with short term growth bad decisions, and moving on to the next. Taking on investors just sounds like a death sentence. I really don’t see how you can operate on just a strategy of MORE.

Final Fantasy *does not sell consoles*

Sony needs to just accept reality and release on PC concurrently. I’ve been waiting for these games for my PC.

Regardless of anyone’s feelings, a game being exclusive in itself is *FINE*. Exclusives can bolster a system’s library and cause more competition, making the overall quality of games better. I mean just look at the SNES and Genesis era.

But the problem is the insane budgets going into games, companies having extremely unrealistic sales expectations, and *timed* exclusivity, which is the worst of both worlds: a game not made with a specific system in mind to start, arbitrarily locked out of a multiplatform release for a period of time so that they can’t make the sales off the hype cycle on platforms they have to wait to release on.

Finally!

They intentionally limited their possible customer base to 10% of it’s potential, and didn’t get as much money as they thought they’d get? Shocking

A large portion of long time fans of their games made the switch to PC a long time ago.
Holding out on developing a PC release later actually costs more money. Not only do they struggle with trying to charge full price for a 2 year old game by throwing away the new launch momentum the very way games are developed makes it more efficient to work on the PC release as the base rather than create assets for console then go back and redo all the work.
What they’re really hoping for is the exclusivity bribe money combined with gamers who will buy the PS5 release AND double dip with the PC release would lead to more profit. It doesn’t, There just aren’t that many people willing to buy both versions at full price. Even many of those that actually own both a PS5 and PC are willing to just wait for the PC release lowering their launch sales.

Failure wasn’t to do with exclusivity it was to do with a lot of people probably waiting out on buying each part until all are released in some sort of bundle for a better price. Could also be because people weren’t happy with the trickery of “rewriting history” but then doing the same thing but personally everyone knew she was still going to die.

Couldn’t be the fact that 16 and rebirth are 70$, could it? Maybe they should price their games better

I want more ffx like final fantasy games.
Linear and they open up at the end of the game.

Unfortunately, Square Enix games didn’t meet my quality expectations. Their games are mediocre as fak

As a metric it either show 2 things….first, people aren’t buying these types of games anymore….or PS5 sales are overstated and aren’t as good as media touts it to be.

Bring back nobuo uematsu.

How about quit milking final fantasy to death and make another good ip

Corpo: *keeps releasing broken, unplayable and falsely marketed products*
Also corpo: Hmm, why are people not preordering
Also corpo two, braindead boogaloo: *releases a game on a single platform that requires an expensive console purchase with 177 countries that can’t make accounts*
Also corpo, the return of the CEO: Why are our games not selling well?

“Foamstars want a flop” be for real man

While I appreciate games coming to more systems and thus give more players the chance to experience them, it’s not like having the games on Xbox would have helped with Square Enix’ lofty sales expectations. That is no jab at Xbox but just at the sheer sales number and the brands position atm in the current gen. How much does SE expect those games to have sold more if the supposed market leader didn’t sell, what SE they considered enough numbers? Perhaps temper your expectations? Absolutely bring games to more plattforms but also realize what the actual issue is here.

I know its off topic for this video but where the hell is the marketing for Hellblade 2? Xboxs biggest game right now and I found out its releasing in just a few days by the home screen on my series x. There’s like no marketing for it whatsoever.

I prefer to play my games on PC, I think Sony/Square would like me to double-dip getting it on PS5 but now I’ve seen they’re releasing their games on PC a year or so later and I’m very comfortable waiting. They def gain new players releasing games on PC but they probably lost some PS5 sales numbers like me knowing it’ll be on PC at a later date.

I would love to play FF16 on my xbox.

Sony down bad Microsoft gaming and Sony are totally different Xbox is not the biggest earning business that makes up Microsoft PlayStation is the biggest piece of Sonys business this hurts Sony way more then Xbox and actually square enix is much closer to Xbox these days wouldn’t be surprised to see us scoop them up at some point

*Everyone on the planet buys the game twice*
Corpos: Yeah, the sales figures aren’t bad but they fell short of our expectations

I know that’s not the case here but it sure as fuck feels like it. Doesn’t matter how well something does, how well it’s reviewed, how much it sells, it’s never enough, and the next thing always has to sell better.
And the EA shows us that even meeting all those targets and expectations just gets you the boot. What’s the fucking point in even trying anymore?

Imagine that. You restricted yourself to a platform that has yet to sell as much as the previous one due to inflation cutting into everyone’s budget and by proxy the games didn’t sell as well as you’d like. I think that’s one of the biggest factors behind Sony’s push to get into the PC market, only they’ve already pissed us off royally and continue to do so because they think they’re slick. It started with Helldivers 2. Now Tsushima. They really want our data and they ain’t fucking getting it. All you have to do is release the games on PC, have them run as well as the console counterpart, and you’d make bank. But nope. Gotta be greedy little fuckheads.

Let’s be honest it’s not the exclusivity but due final fantasy hasn’t been the best jrpgs since final fantasy 13. Even final fantasy 15 didn’t sell well. With YS, Persona, Tales series and more are their competition. I would not like it on Xbox either as let’s be honest we will be hoping for it to be on game pass so sales doesn’t really do much difference. Final fantasy changed after final fantasy x. 12 was their last great game.

We alienated 2/3rds of our audience…. Why haven’t we sold enough?!

No no, sales aren’t bad, the majority of our investors and C-suite are just delusional

Exclusively is such a 7th gen way of thinking. Hated it back then, hate it more now. It’s just never made sense to me why they’d want to sell LESS, logically

I never liked FF7, I saw the changes from sprites to 3D models and hated it with passion, this remake it is a hardpass for me.

So, let me get this straight: Square Enix is struggling and is not making all the money in the world. To compensate that they are porting more of their biggest titles immediately to the big consoles/platforms out there. And because they don’t need people to port all these games, they gonna fire people.

FFVII in 3 parts was a deal breaker for me … I said I would only buy it once the three are completed and as a set.

As for 16, though 15 was awesome…. It was an incomplete game and needed a lot of additional content to get the complete story … Soooo was a little disappointing

Bridges were already burned. I would never purchase FFXVI or FFVII even if they came to Xbox. Iv just written the games off at this point.

How does Square judge success, the same way everyone does. Making more money than you invested. Playstation exclusivity has destroyed this generation for Square.

Exclusivety is always bad. Only Nintendo gets away with it because everyone knows their characters…

That’s what happens when you release dogshit (ff16)

Squeenix

“How weird, the game we didn’t sell to most of the gaming public didn’t sell as well as we had hoped!”

Ill be honest forspoken is the best fun i had on ps5. I love it brought it full price and the dlc.

I’d play forspoken over again if it had a new gamexplus mode

I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone but in my case I had some hesitance towards buying the second game as I haven’t even completed the first. Even though it’s all a 2 decade old story it still makes me feel like waiting to buy rebirth.

This is great news. Square Enix used to be the gold standard in gaming but the younger generation these days mostly knows them for Forspoken, Marvel’s Avengers, Babylon’s Fall, Foamstars and the meme of never meeting their sales expectations. Getting their development pipelines in order and finally ending the exclusivity deals is a much needed change.

Gaming industry is about consumers spending money….if consumers don’t spend well yall go broke. Simple. We have bills games aren’t important.

Make games I WANT. Make Games CHEAPER. I don’t feel bad at all because my money is in my pocket I don’t have to worry about share holders or sells lol 😂.

Cry more squenix.

I loved playing FFXV on Xbox. Completely blew my mind that they went exclusive with their golden goose (and 16). Not only did it turn me off of the series as a whole, it made me actively hate Sony at the same time. I have absolutely zero interest in 7R already with the episodic release (wouldn’t buy and play until all 3 games are released) and the console exclusivity only makes it worse

Finaly a company making a decent choice. Fuck exclusivity deals!!

Does this mean Square Enix has quadruple times the expectations and can complain 4 times as much in the end for not meeting them?

Finally, I have always wanted final fantasy 7 games for xbox.

Unrealistic expectations as usual from the studios. But I’m glad if the games will be multiplatform day 1.

Square Enix should have broken away from Sony exclusivity years ago. All that money they lost not porting their games to PC and Xbox is a harsh reminder of that mistake.

Any news on Kingdom Hearts 4?

Good I hate system exclusives.

Maybe they’ll finally release Final Fantasy Tactics on PC now.

Make the game exclusive for a console, and after 90-120 days, release them on all consoles. If you want to play it when everyone else is playing? Buy a PS5. If not, wait. I think that sorts both issues out.

FF16 and maybe Final Fantasy as a whole is no longer a rpg. It’s a action devil may cry like with rpg elements.

Refuse to buy it.

We wanted a FF7 Remake, we got a FF7 reimagining. Fuck them, not buying it. Don’t care if it’s good.

I grew up playing Final Fantasy. I loved them all, Square always changes shit up, yes true, but they have never changed genre before. It’s different this time.

If I wanted Devil May Cry, I’d play Devil May Cry. Final Fantasy has lost it’s identity and is dead to me now, which honestly is very sad.

Lol, they were exclusive?!? Since when?!?

remember when square actually made good games?

Oh gee who could have seen this coming? The absolute shitshow that was rolling out of PS5s, couple that with the fact that inflation and cost of living are out of control with pay not keeping up, and to top it all off charging 70 DOLLARS for what is effectively the other half of the game for FF7. These fucking companies can pound sand.

Whether this is a good or bad thing is unclear, If Square enix can push out quality games with a lower budget then its all good…if not then expect games worse than FF 10.

Not being exclusive anymore is a good thing for gamers but square is delusional. I got ff16 in a ps5 bundle when i bought my console. I played around 20h. The game is really fucking boring. No exploration its just 20 minutes cutscene, 5 minutes of combat , 20 minutes of cutscene rince an repeat.

About time

“relied too much on individual creativity” plus some of the other notes sounds like we are going to be seeing a post soon about layoffs.

So stupid. Im not buying a Ps5 for this release it on the PC NOW

Well if the the game was on Xbox I don’t think it would have made a difference but day 1 pc would help . rebirth feels like I’m playing a game harder than fromsoft game when I’m chasing the platinum

The era of console exclusives has long gone and whoever was making that decision at Sqaure Enix was living in the past. Nintendo is the only company that can get away with having exclusives because for all of their faults, they do put out hit after hit after hit, and I feel like every time I have bought a Nintendo console, I always get my money’s worth and a ton of amazing first party exclusive games. Xbox and Playstation don’t have that luxury anymore.

1 thing, FF Rebirth devs openly came out and said they LIKED only working on 1 platform at a time. They said FF7 Rebirth would not yet be released if they had to develop for multiple platforms.

While I have no problem with things being multi platform (obviously) there ARE downsides to releasing on everything at once.

Imagine if Cyberpunk 2077 released PC only 1st and worked on other platforms

As a Primary PC gamer, I bought FF16. I really enjoyed it, but man is it hard to go form 60+ fps medium-ultra settings to 30fps medium-low settings. I hope 16 gets a PC release someday so I can finish it.

70 for a games is fucking them up

Honestly, they should really drop the Epic deal as well. The exclusivity is obviously not doing them any good.

LET’S GOOOO

Nobody wanted Foamstars

Foamstars was a waste of time and resources. No one wanted another Splatoon knock off. I blame SquarEnix for giving the go on that project.

Good! I want those games and have wanted them for months!

Exclusivity is not the issue, bad games are.
FFXV, FFXVI and now 2nd FFVII Rebirth games are simply terrible copies of other games.

Time for Brave fencer Musashi and einhander to come back.

I wonder if they can sell enough copies on Xbox to recoup the cost to port to the Xbox.

inb4 mandatory Playstation Network account

Bout Damn Time.
Square has a history of bad decisions. They were going out of business so they made their “Final” fantasy, got lucky and survived.
Made a Final Fantasy move that was Nothing like a Final Fantasy and almost tanked the company so they had to pair with Enix, becoming Square Enix.
Live service games from a company better at single player games.
NFT’s. . . . Nuff said
Any exclusivity deals, essentially limiting player base thereby limiting money.
Hope they have finally got a clue.

I feel like 20 ff games came out the last 2 years. They probably arent selling what they expect because they just keep releasing them

Lower your expectations, Square Enix. Problem solved.

It’s weird that no one who’s reporting on this ever brings up that Final Fantasy XIII and XV both launched on Xbox as well as PlayStation. All the recent ports/remasters of the series’ older games are also multiplatform.

PlayStation all but abandoned the Japanese market this console generation, and the Switch has well over 90% of the market share there as a result. Of course the new Final Fantasy games were going to underperform.

I’m not even anti console exclusive. Sometimes when a game is ported to so many consoles or platforms, there’s a version that gets the short end of the stick. If a game is going to be ported so much, the company needs to put more effort in to optimizing each port. A title like FF7 remake/rebirth can afford it. But I don’t think squeezing MK1 or hypothetically god of war ragnarok one the Switch is necessary. That could just make people unhappy.

I swear I heard you say “Squinix” 😂 it would actually be a good/better name

One thing that kept me from buying a PS5 despite being an enormous long-time fan of SE’s series is that they keep bringing everything to PC after a year or two on average from the release. Timed exclusive means that it isn’t exclusive!

Would have liked to play ff16, but i’m a PC scrub who still has an old ps4 that i dust out from time to time, just see no reason to get a ps5 only for a couple games.

When are we going to get your thoughts on Assassin’s Creed Shadows?

As a Playstation fan, I say, GOOD! About time Square Enix leadership figured out multiplatform releases is the only way they can hope to meet those ridiculous internal expectations of their and their shareholders’. Let the PC and Xbox players in on the fun!

Well maybe if Ps5s wasn’t still hard to come by as well as final fantasy 7 rebirth wasn’t exclusive and still brought to PS4 still like horizon’s DLC also should have been, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue.

Sony failed to market these games and get more people to buy them. Ultimately hurting Square Enix financially. These are great games that need to be available on all platforms to maximise their potential.

Exclusivity seemed to work wonders up to 2010. However, nowadays even first party titles are seeing multi-platform releases such as God of War and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The only system that still thrives while keeping to themselves is Nintendo but perhaps one day we will see a Mario game on a Sony or Microsoft system too.

Basically they reached the full potential of playstation exclusivity and now have come to a stalemate where now they need to be on new platforms to reach their goals

As an XBox gamer, I would’ve bought some of these games if I could.

Good. I will instantly drop $200 for the FF7 remake trilogy on Xbox series X

The thing is that, the games would (in their eyes) fulfill internal expectation if they didn’t doe exclusive. I get it, it good for money for both you and the exclusive console/company but it doesn’t help your customers. Limiting isn’t really good unless sony or microsoft got LOTS of faith in their games bringing people to play on their consoles like the old day, but we all know those days aren’t coming back 😅

I totally agree that they should do that even if final fantasy is already on p, c, they just need to put it on Xbox and place PlayStation Xbox in the switch. And I ultimately say this. If the switch I will wait for the switch a little bit. Then switch to and see if it can run other games first before I release it. That’s what I would do. But I would definitely put it on a new Xbox. But besides that young, keep up the good work, keep up the discussions.Everybody and keep up the good young and i’m out

Saying “foamstars didnt meet expectations” like it was realistic for anyone in the conpany to believe it would 😭

I’m tired of hearing about shareholders not being able to buy their third yacht.

Honestly won’t yell at. You’re forgetting one important thing, even if square E. Nix does do that. They’re always gonna be people who are not big. Fans of final fantasy there’s so much people in this world billions and chillions of people. It’s kind of tricky in the value of their money is very tricky as well. So when it comes to the value of their money so to us, a couple billion or more copies that they sold. Yeah, that’s a success. Because our value is higher than Japan’s value. So let’s say they do that because final fantasy rebirth. Is also on pc. You know how many people play PC. So that would have to be on PS mean Xbox, which is falling apart in front of our eyes. Ice. Also oh switch, and it’s already on the switch final fantasy. So the value of our money compared to theirs is what is biting them. Noto certainly the soul the sales themselves the value of their own money in their own currency. That’s why people make anime who make Manga. They don’t get paid enough because their value is way lower compared to hours and realistically. In our state, they’ll be getting paid a lot and there’s none at all.😊

I stopped following FF series sometime before FF7 uses new canons

Honestly, how could they not include these games in Xbox and PC? You do not need to be an expert to know that by having available games in many consoles will mean you will sell more!
This is all thanks to the stupid exclusivity that companies create around… Square Enix making deals with Sony to make things “exclusive” for a limited time on PS consoles was a very foolish move! Now hype has ended, and even if they move these great games to Xbox and PC, they may not sell as well as if they had been available from the beginning… look at FF15, it sold 5MM units in a few days? Honestly, I do not know how companies are making these decisions? Or is this a move because they will be fully acquired by Sony? FF16 was an astounding game, better than any other SciFi FF out there! Very sad that it was not open to other consoles… you reap what you sow! Stop the madness of exclusivity, even if it is for some months or years! MAKE THE GAMES AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE! If you are a 3rd party developer that is!

It’s about time. Remake and Rebirth are absolutely brilliant games and deserve to be experienced on multiple platforms. Stop letting ponies claim these as their own when they don’t even buy them enough to satisfy square.

If the next NieR game is exclusive to PS5, I’mma lose my shit.

Ponies – Haha, Xbox games are going multiplatform.

Also Ponies – Ya know, losing SE exclusivity on PS isn’t bad, it’s good others will experience their games.

(*Trying to play off that they’re losing exclusives, especially after using SE as a bullet point against Xbox for years*)

FF is one of my favourite series out there, but I refuse to buy a PS5 just to play a couple of exclusives, so it would be insane if they ended their exclusivity bs.

Honestly I would love to see what sales expectations look like for companies,

we always hear that this doesn’t meet expectations that doesn’t mean expectations but what are the actual expectations.

Would be simply be nice to see the unrealistic expectations on display versus more realistic expectations.

I wonder how many companies are expecting GTA level sales for their games.

Naturally their sales would go up on all platforms thats a no brainer but meeting expectations?,

I guess only time will tell, I’m sick of hearing the words “Not meeting expectations”

I hear it echoed way to often throughout the gaming industry but it feels to vague without a sales target reference to look at.

I just wanna know what Expectations they have or had when signing their soul to sony cos I feel like the numbers are gunna laughable next to common sense

Well what do they expect their sales to be if they confine their games to only one console. If a game is on more platforms you have more potential buyers simple as that.

Ff16 was better than the 2nd 7 remake to me. But both pretty solid games. And no one I knew was talking about them. I asked a few friends who used to be into these types of games and they didn’t play them.

Square Enix needs to stop making these random games. Just stick to Final Fantasy and then I just need my Chrono trigger remake.

FF7 rebirth was censored, and FF16 strayed too far from final fantasy. Exclusivity is a small part of the problem.

Should of had more physical stock for FF7 part 1. It probably would have encouraged more people to buy part 2. TBH they dropped the ball by not making a special edition with two disc games just like the original

Maybe they just expect too much of themselves lol.

Kinda weird the made this new ff7 game PlayStation exclusive when the original wasn’t, original ff7 came out on PC also back in the day. 13 and 15 were multiplat also. SquareEnix choice to narrow their customer base was a weird one.

Major problem they are forgetting is there’s a big install base of people who bought part one of FF7 remake on PC waiting for part two on PC. We aren’t going to buy it on PS5 as waiting for the PC version.

FF16 being locked on PS5 was stupid period. JRPG can be much more niche these days so they should definitely be on PC and Xbox and maybe Nintendo once they get better hardware one day.

I love how gaming execs think they know how to make money.

Shouldn’t exclusivity deals take into account lost sales on other platforms and compensate in relation to that?

Scores aside, FF7 is not a remake its a reboot and FF16 is empty on rpg elements/open world. Not enough to pull in and hold players who would promote the games.

*say it aint so*

I’m lucky enough to own every platform but not everyone has or wants a PS5 (or the countries that don’t support PSN) Square shot themselves in the foot with exclusivity deals with Sony. Reselling previous final fantasy on other platforms might slow down the bleeding but not stop it right away. Another thing that would help is print more physical copies of the Pixel remaster! Throwing it with a PS5 and Xbox Series X/S physical disc would sell out asap for collectors.

All the comments: Exclusivity never works, it’s bad blablabla…
Meanwhile Nintendo: 😎

Theres a reason FF14 is so successful, it was on PS4 AND PC AND NOW ON XBOX.

Took them long enough. After how big a pain in the ass it was to even GET a PS5 for the longest time of course sales were bad for an exclusive.

We’re at a point where even if a game is profitable it still isn’t enough for those greedy investors.
I swear even if a game broke world records the investors will still expect double that in the following years.

*No internal sales numbers were shared*
I’m willing to bet it’s because it doesn’t matter what the sales numbers were no matter what. Square Enix (SE) was that type of significant other in a relationship with Sony that was just waiting for any excuse to happen so that they can finally have a guilt-free break up in their relationship. 🤣
Even if they were to get 3 million more copies sold on Sony, SE would have still said “Sorry but I want to see other people”. Damn cold. 🥶

Moral of the story here: keep your expectations low and widen the fanbase with your games

Whats this? Your software developers getting no sales because all your consoles sold and are sitting in some scalpers basement Sony?

Gosh, who could of seen this coming!?

Personally, I did not like FF16 or FF7Rebirth that much. I would not say those are bad games but I was not really that excited when I played those games.

Is this the same Square Enix that said 5 million Tomb Raider sales was below expectations?

Spends billions on a game. Releases only on one platform. Why did we fail?! Playstation isn’t the big cheese in the gaming world anymore. Covid ruined it for everyone. Due to lack of supply, most people migrated to PC.

Do all these corporate execs need to go back to business school for a year?

Took them long enough. I did buy 16 on ps5, but i don’t really play console. If they on PC, I will buy. It far better.

i mean the exclusivity is why i haven’t played them just straight up

They might consider making good games? When is the last time they had a good game?

So what happens when they put all of their games on everything and still don’t make enough money 🤔 😕 🙄 😒 😐 😑

Oh damn, it turns out *le gasp* that if you limit your product to about 20% of your entire market, it doesn’t sell well. Well gee who would have thunk it.

Weird that Sony wont just buy Square Enix after all this time.

get bent sony

The thought that they want us to spend $400 on a system then another $70 for the game is kinda silly. I have an Xbox and pc, I don’t wanna get a whole new system for 1 game

Square never has realistic sales expectations. They have really whacked out budgets. And not only does exclusivity limit your market, but so does releasing a game that used to be one game and turning it into three. I’m sure there is a non trivial number of people who played the whole game as kids and are waiting until the entire thing is remade so they can experience it all at once. Just like when they were kids

Exclusivity isnt the problem.. its the fact their making “remakes”, films in the form of videogames, NFT crap and a number of other things.

They need to go back to their roots and go back to a true turn based

I am sure the recent fiasco of Sony forcing PSN linking and the public actually finding out where PSN is not available might have contributed to this decision.

Exclusivity only made sense back when each platform had distinct hardware which made ports difficult to make. Now that consoles are just fixed spec PCs with minor tweaks, exclusivity is nothing more than a console seller.

Remember guys: if it’s not making infinite money, it’s failing in the game industry.

Ff16 was so good. Square Enix shot themselves in the foot by limiting sales to one system.

Where are these magical sales coming from??..Xbox, where they don’t buy games, Nintendo with The underpowered switch and PC where it will eventually come to. The main issue seems to be the cost of game development which only increases with the number of platforms you release on. Square’s biggest losses are from canceled games. On which platform are they going to sell more than the PS?

I don’t have a PS5, but I do have a PC. I will buy games on PC when they are released.