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nintendo finally gettin bigs third parties support??
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Square Enix will "aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs"
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thismeinteil
Member
You honestly think they'll be spending that kind of money on GamePass by then?Part 3 on PC with FF7 Remake Trilogy Complete Edition on Xbox day 1 game pass.
LordOcidax
Member
Yes please,,, The casual version failed, they need to go back to their roots.
CityHunter1981
An Absolute Desaster
I hope they find success with this strategy. I still can’t understand why Rebirth underperformed. Loved that game so much. On the other hand I finished it but was not a big fan of XVI, perhaps I am just getting to old for newer FF games…
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I really think people want to push the narrative that FF failed on PS5 and it should be on PC (and maybe Xbox) also and always. 
Like sure it should be on PC but why are people pushing a narrative that FF utterly failed. It reeks of fanboy narrative.
Like sure it should be on PC but why are people pushing a narrative that FF utterly failed. It reeks of fanboy narrative.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
People are acting like SquareEnix was fully exclusive to Sony. Most of their support was for Sony, but they still supported Switch and on occasion, XBox(FF14 Online). I don’t think SE will be in a much better place even with an aggressive multiplatform strategy. Xbox gamers don’t buy games, Switch isn’t powerful enough to run most SE games unless they make a Switch exclusive version or something, so this leaves PC/Steam. They’ll probably procure decent sales on PC, but I don’t know what will happen with Nintendo unless the power in Switch 2 is closer to PlayStation.
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simpatico
Member
Listen, I know realizing that you guys let down Hironbu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Tetsuya Nomura, Yuji Horii, Masato Kato and Hiroyuki Ito is a lot to take in. I get it. I'm not even saying that I'd be instantly able to swallow that guilt. I'd be bargaining too. But listen, these guys needed you. You say their expectations were too high, but man they're just telling you what they need. I mean why even buy a PS5 if not to purchase a Final Fantasy VII Remake? These guys crafted childhoods man, like fucking angelic artists, and you're hung up on how many copies they need to sell of their art to break even and not have to sleep in the gutter?!
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
Seems Tassi us being called out. Nice
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Folks cheering for this are failing to acknowledge that making the game run on a Switch as a PS5 means said game is gonna be gimped beyond belief.
If ya'll balked at the pervasiveness of cross-gen games at this gen's commencement, then you should be raging about this.
If ya'll balked at the pervasiveness of cross-gen games at this gen's commencement, then you should be raging about this.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Agree with the speculation that part of the reason is perhaps Sony has pulled out after the various bombs with the exclusives
www.polygon.com
Babylon’s Fall - discontinued shortly after release
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - they refuses to reveal the numbers
Forspoken - bombed so hard that it killed the developer studio
Foamstars - average reviews that nobody care
Final Fantasy 16 - failed to meet expectation
Square Enix is turning its back on console exclusives
Will also make a ‘shift from quantity to quality’
www.polygon.com
Babylon’s Fall - discontinued shortly after release
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - they refuses to reveal the numbers
Forspoken - bombed so hard that it killed the developer studio
Foamstars - average reviews that nobody care
Final Fantasy 16 - failed to meet expectation
Gambit2483
Member
We still don't know how powerful Switch 2 will be. If it's at least as powerful or more powerful than Steamdeck then I wouldn't worry about porting games to Switch, especially if it also utilizes VRR and DLSS.
Some Developers can be extremely resourceful with optimizing for less powerful hardware, which has been proven time again on Switch.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
SE games on Switch have done just fine over the generation, and Switch 2 doesn't have to be anywhere near Playstation/Xbox levels of power to be successful for SE or anyone else for that matter.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Watch them be talking about that FoamShit that they put out lol
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Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
People are determined to talk that game down ever since it was first announced as exclusive at launch. Now people are saying it looked like an Atari game and bankrupted square
Haint
Member
We know, 1536 dual issue ("fake teraflop") cores on Samsung 8nm with relatively low memory bandwidth means docked mode raster performance will be a little better than a base PS4 and significantly worse than PS4 Pro. A little better than Steamdeck, but a long way from blowing it out of the water. Mobile chips are too small and limited for DLSS to do much.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Exclusive Switch games have performed fine, but I mean if they want to port something like Final Fantasy 16 or FF7: Rebirth later. They will probably have to make huge sacrifices to get it to run and look decent on Switch and maybe even the Switch 2.
Essentially asking, would SE develop two separate versions of a game at the same time or just keep porting exclusive SE games over to Switch that are actually developed with Nintendo hardware in mind?
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Switch 2 is likely to be ~ PS4 levels of power and that's fine (if devs know what they're doing) and it would be easy enough for them to make the FFVII R trilogy on Switch 2 if those specs are correct. I think that level of graphics will be perfectly fine to get most third party games on Switch 2 and make the Japanese and US/EU handheld fan bases happy.
As far as developing for multiple systems, aka Switch 2 and PS5, just let the system that has the biggest base dictate their choice and just adjust to the others.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
Exclusivity is not anti consumer.
RE4 Remake sold 3 million units in 2 days
FFXVI shipped 3 million in a week.
Try again?
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Really crazy when you think about it. FF7 Remake sold 7 millions since release in April 2020, while Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak, an expanded release of a mere spinoff game, sold 8 millions since release in June 2022.
hinch7
Member
Good news. Releasing on multiple platforms means more people can enjoy games like FF's without being restricted onto a certain platform. In this case the mainline FF's on PlayStation, even if timed. And smaller AA games funded by Nintendo. Only downside is that it could prolong some development cycles, but I'll take it if there are day one releases on PC.
Got to be a hit for Sony though.
Got to be a hit for Sony though.
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Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Not really, publishers moving to a more multi-platform approach is pretty normal mid to late gen as the money for exclusivity tends to dry up.
Also, how long this pivot lasts isn't a sure thing. They can try and bolster profits short term by porting back-catalogue titles, but they may reconsider in the mid to long when they see how badly building multiple sku's of their next major release concurrently impacts scheduling.
AREYOUOKAY?
Member
Aggressively remake games that never got released outside of Japan or elsewhere the same way you did Trials of Mana.
www.timeextension.com
www.nintendolife.com
Square Enix, Yuzo Koshiro Really Wants 'Illusion Of Gaia' And 'Terranigma' Remakes, Thanks
"We’re eager to see remakes of these masterpieces"
www.timeextension.com
Some Of The Original Terranigma Team Want To Revive The Classic SNES RPG
Digital re-release or remaster, we don't mind...
www.nintendolife.com
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Soodanim
Member
I can't believe it took until post 290 for this. It's not good enough, GAF
FewRope
Member
People here thinking SE is actually considering Xbox as a platform to succeed in sales are actually delusional. They are going balls deep on Switch 2/PC releases day 1, they need to put everything on Steam to make real money imho. The JRPG players are now playing mainly on Switch and PC, they left PlayStation a long time ago and for good reason
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Fabieter
Member
Aggressively remake games that never got released outside of Japan or elsewhere the same way you did Trials of Mana.
Square Enix, Yuzo Koshiro Really Wants 'Illusion Of Gaia' And 'Terranigma' Remakes, Thanks
"We’re eager to see remakes of these masterpieces"Some Of The Original Terranigma Team Want To Revive The Classic SNES RPG
Digital re-release or remaster, we don't mind...
They want to make money, not releasing the next few games a few people like myself ask for and no one else is buying them.
This change will kill most small games from sqaure tho and there is no going back.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Agree with the speculation that part of the reason is perhaps Sony has pulled out after the various bombs with the exclusives
Square Enix is turning its back on console exclusives
Will also make a ‘shift from quantity to quality’
Babylon’s Fall - discontinued shortly after release
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - they refuses to reveal the numbers
Forspoken - bombed so hard that it killed the developer studio
Foamstars - average reviews that nobody care
Final Fantasy 16 - failed to meet expectation
Three of those games are terrible or not even actual games, like Babylon's Fall. What has Sony have to do with that? Ask Shift Up's CEO if he's happy about exclusivity.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Not releasing same day on Steam is stupid.
It makes sense for Sony- they need to keep their console attractive. But it hinders Square getting a fanbase on Steam. No amount of short term Sony money is worth it.
It makes sense for Sony- they need to keep their console attractive. But it hinders Square getting a fanbase on Steam. No amount of short term Sony money is worth it.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I didn’t say Sony has anything to do with their qualities though? Only saying the qualities of some titles may have contributed to the possibility of the termination of their partnership
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Sneakysnake
Banned
Switch 2 is supposed to provide visuals better than base PS4, with a much better CPU, significantly better VRAM and modern I/O.
That’s good enough as a low end baseline.
As long as the game sells enough to justify the port, it makes it worth it.
Sorry to break it to you, but they specifically mention Xbox in their plans for an ‘aggressive’ multiplatform push.
Fabieter
Member
I have a hard time believing the switch 2 won't outsell the ps5 tho. Pc and switch is the way to go going forward.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
PS5 consumers didn't buy enough copies. They have to try and target more systems.
SplunkyMunkey
Member
At this rate if if no third party wanna do an exclusive game that the company paid for sony would have 2 choices either pay for exclusive content or simply buy them out.
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Guilty_AI
Member
So, lower budgets, shorter dev times and pressure to have the game actually offer something interesting that isn't graphics? I'm in.
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ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
So you bought both Octopaths, Live A Live and Triangle Strategy?
Roman Empire
Member
Epic ExclusivePart 3 on PC with FF7 Remake Trilogy Complete Edition on Xbox day 1 game pass.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Switch 2 hasn't even been announced, much less released. It won't even have a meaningful installed base for another 2 to 3 years.
If he's making these comments about an aggressive multiplatform strategy today, he's considering Switch 1.
And? If that means games get held back by inferior hardware, am I supposed to be happy about that?
If Switch is being added as an additional platform, game budgets don't decrease, they increase. And the difference between the PS5 and Switch CPUs, together with mass storage speed, RAM amount and I/O is so vast that it far more than just graphics that will be compromised to be able to support Switch alongside the PS5/XSX.
This is just not an intelligent reply.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Nothing is held back. It wouldn't exist due to lack of proper funding unless they target more players. You're comparing a game that is canceled vs. a game on Switch 2 as the low end graphics setting.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
This is delusional.
A game made for Switch and PS5 is held back compared to if the same game was made for only PS5. To claim otherwise is just daft.
Physiognomonics
Member
It's more complex than that. People are just waiting for the better Steam version nowadays. This is what I think happened to FF7 rebirth. People know they are going to play a better, cheaper and more cusotmizeable version on their PC. Why bother with the $70 / 80€ playstation tax now?
For years now (since jimbo took charge) Playstation has been showing customers there will eventually be a better and cheaper version of their "exclusive" games on Steam. Well people are learning.
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