They already have that FFXIV expansion, FFXVI, FFVIIR Intergrade and Forspoken. I wouldn't expect another big Square JRPG game to be released until maybe 2023 or so, so if this is real maybe it's FFVIIR ep.2 because it may match with both the dates and the PS exclusivity.
Everyone who has championed XBox having exclusive Bethesda titles cannot moan if Final Fantasy goes exclusive to Sony.
I think it’s all great. Exclusives breed competition, which is of benefit to us gamers.
These Final Fantasy exclusives are mostly 3rd party timed console exclusives, which I think are less harmful for everybody than full exclusives. Sooner or later the players from other platforms also can play them and the publisher/dev ends getting both revenue from the money hatting and from releasing the game everywhere.
Half a year after they were purchased, Bethesda still has to announce their first MS exclusive. The Xbox CFO said their focus with Bethesda will be 'first or best' on Xbox and Phil said not all Bethesda games will be exclusive, that they will support existing communities in other platforms and that they will release exclusive (didn't specify if timed console exclusives or full console exclusives) stuff 'on platforms where Game Pass exist'. So who knows, specially after seeing Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons maybe some future Bethesda end being multi since day one and other ones are timed console exclusives.
We still have to wait and see a lot the real meaning of Bethesda now being a MS 1st party. As an example, they can announce Starfiled for Xbox and PC this E3 and a year after its release to see it announced for PS5. Or not, it may be a full console exclusive, or a multi game since day one. Or since Sony was negotiating a timed exclusive just before MS purchased Bethesda, it's even possible that maybe Sony already secured a PS timed exclusive for Starfield. Who knows. As I said, we'll have to wait and see. As of now, this year MS will release Deathloop, Ghostwire Tokyo and Psyconauts 2 on PlayStation.
