>refuses to release games on platforms other than ps5
>every game isn't hitting sales expectations
>sold off every western dev they had despite them making good games
>used that money for NFT crap(tossed it in the trash)
>delayed their money maker's, ffxiv, expansion after releasing the worst received expac yet
>none of their gachas have taken off
>they're closing one down in a month
This company is either trying to get bought or they will be shut down in 2-3 years
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>refuses to release games on platforms other than ps5
>every game isn't hitting sales expectations
These are related.
If a publisher thinks a game won't sell well, then they'll take the exclusivity bribe offered by Sony. The exclusivity bribe offsets the low sales, allowing them to make a profit.
Taking the exclusivity bribe means the publisher doesn't believe their game will sell.
sony is willing to fund their big budget releases while they try to strike gold with no effort gacha shit
they're doing just fine financially
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This is why Japan is becoming irrelevant to its own developers, sales like these are a pittance. Only 2 games that crossed 200k, shame.
Japan still plays games but they're all moving to Switch and Steam Deck and similar PC handhelds. Console gaming in Japan may be dying but PC gaming is experiencing unprecedented popularity.
it's a really weird thought that Apex Legends played a big part in bringing japs to PCs
Both AC6 and Elden Ring in Japan sold the most copies on PC so these are embarrassing numbers.
>FFXI was the highest grossing Final Fantasy game up until 2 years ago
>treated like absolute dirt
>remake cancelled
>won't even make a "classic" 75-era server
I fricking hate this company.
>I fricking hate this company.
Me too anon. Have done for almost 20yr now.
The sales are a pittance precisely because Japanese devs are going full westaboo, not vice versa
No, it's about JP market size, why do you think HORI pushed to have DQXI on Switch. Outside of DQ you're barely gonna get a decent number of sales in Nipland on consoles, they moved to phones and portables a long time ago.
>refuses to release games on platforms other than ps5
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I just finished Harvestella today.
Nobody cares about their Q-team games
Apparently nobody cares about their A-team games either.
got me there
>seg -ACK
kek, none of their garbage even hit a 90 on metacritic this year.
>seen this game image a bunch of times
>have never stopped to wonder why Miku is boxing until now
Looks like it's just Boxercise.
Fitness boxing is actually a really big thing in japan. Which is weird because standard martial arts, especially japanese ones, are declining.
I do but they don't develop for pc
Nothing wrong with choosing a platform for exclusivity, it's not like Xbox version were going to sell tbqh. And even if they die... it's a good thing since it's homosexual square enix. But I enjoy the irony seeing the game they don't have hope being the successful ones instead their "heavy hitters"
I don't give a shit about xbox and haven't since like 2011. PC and Switch are where I want my games. I even own a PS5 and I dont use it. I don't buy shit for it and it goes untouched except for some ps4 games and demos that devs refuse to put on PC despite their game releasing on PC.
Their main mistake was sticking with AAA production. FF7R and 16 should've had stylized graphics (think FFXII/Nier tier) or whatever made a Switch port possible. Both would've done 5M+ easily.
AAA budget is nearly always a mistake. Graphics sell games to an extent but gameplay has no cap on sales. Minecraft is not a pretty game, tetris is not a pretty game, gta v is not a pretty game
>you now remember the time when AAA budget wasn't expensive
PS3 and the 7th gen of graphicwhorism was a mistake
It really was, killed many franchises and nearly retired many others. The irony is that gen started with some decent looking games that ran great too but no, everyone had to be a graphics prostitute. Of course a lot of the blame for that goes to Sony and MS, I remember devs from both sides talking about how lifelike their skin shaders were or how much they'd spent on facial animation tech. Most nip devs weren't ready for the jumps in production time that HD graphicsprostitute production brought with it either, Namco lost so much time making towns for Vesperia that they had to cut other gameplay features they'd planned for the title.
It was 100% Sony. MS did an effort to reach devs all around by making 360 more easy and understandable architecture on top of bringing devs from pc in need to stay afloat after pc... kills everyone there because piracy platform and difficult to tank a couple of commercial failures. PS3 just NEEDED more than just extra work as they intended with the lateral thinking motto it worked so well for PS2 on top of being just a high wall to climb from the get go since Kutaragi was up his ass with games like a movie so mid tier games were a no-no while 360 was saying bring those as well
True, MS gets some brownie points for their XBLA program and supporting indie devs. The indie game scene wouldn't be what it is today without the foundation they laid on the 360. Still, their major first party games have the same problem.
Thing is... ms is irrelevant in the big picture, always was. The biggest thing in gen 7 was the damage done to Japanese devs, specially AA, to the point of an almost death and that is not remotely close to be MS' turf, it was Sony's back then due the massive success of PS2 so MS role is next to nothing (now as for internet related context...)
And now we live a period where Sony doesn't even have Japan anymore and by their own will and choice
Yep, that was the point of my original post too. Japanese AAs were shafted horribly due to graphics prostituteism. Ironically the AAs that did make it out of that generation unscathed were the ones who stuck to their guns and didn't go for graphics prostituteism (which tbh they didn't even have the capacity to but props still) like From. I could drone on and make a list but just looking at all the AAs that disappeared from Konami and Namco is enough, let alone all the other studios.
I think games developers unironically drank PC master race Kool aid where graphics were concerned
Well, yeah... the whole shitstain videogames became happened because someone took the pc masterrace joke seriously. Now watch them die
>AAA production
XVi is pretty obviously a relatively budget product. Basically every cutscene is in-engine and the game is littered with canned animations with no minigames or variations of gameplay in sight.
Well done Yoshida. But it's still mainline FF, dunno how much they spent on the kaiju, R&D for their graphics tech like the faketracing solution they implemented or all the other stuff for its new engine so we don't know for sure whether the budget wasn't high or not. Eventually we'll have that data then we'll know the true scale of the project.
Did you forget that episode where they released a hundred daily life sims?
Those all have shit gameplay.
You can do good gameplay without doing good graphics, they just choose not to.
I think Type-0 HD or even FF12 is about as far as Final Fantasy ever needed to go.
Also having every girl in type-0 wear different pantsu was a great idea
Type-0 is unironically one of the best FF games made.
>sold off every western dev they had despite them making good games
I'm gonna have to stop you right there, chief. Can you point to any good western made game SE put out?
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Hitman
All of the Go phone games(uninronically they are great)
>refuses to release games on platforms other than ps5
???
so what is the choice? Switch is too underpowered to run anything new they release, nobody owns an Xbox and PC gamers overpaid for their latest GPU so resort to pirating all their games
what is your point? the only issue I see is the pants on head moronic price they ask for games these days, they would sell more if they were $50-60 max
I pirate my games because they require Steam or other bullshit to be played
I buy from sites like DLsite or ichi because there's no ~~*launcher*~~ bullshit
The idea PC gamers can afford a gpu which costs more than a console alone but not games is stupid
>Switch is too underpowered to run anything new they release
And yet new releases are bloated in data size. Is there such thing as underpowered or is it devs making it bigger than necessary?
>Switch is too underpowered to run anything new
so is the ps5
>advertise system as 4k 60fps
>no game hits this
lmao
Their NFT and gacha stuff is actually keeping them afloat. Their gacha model isn't one of releasing a single game that goes long term, they release lots of small ones that pump whales in the short term and then die so they can be hooked on a new one. Naturally this won't keep working because even whales have their limits, but it's basically been the only area where they're profitable in the past couple of years.
PS5 > Everything else
SE should ditch consoles and just make gacha games.
That totally isn't massively overvalued at all
Why? Every gacha they've made has flopped. They are incapable of making phone games.
>just replicate someone elses success
>Dissidia-based 3D gacha game
>2 different banners/gods (Chaos/Cosmos) to roll from to obtain either good or evil base characters.
>Every time you obtain a character you improve a skill
>Can release different versions of each character thanks to multiverse world frickery.
>We finally get the versus XIII version of Noctis
Square Enix could've printed money.
Even HSR is a success. SE could just make something similar but with their waifus and print money but no they make moronic BD gachas.
>refuses to release games on platforms other than ps5
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9th gen shouldn't have happened. It's not enough of a performance upgrade. Using very low res on 8th gen consoles and using good (bicubic/fsr) upscaling would have been enough to probably outdo 9th gen offerings. Xbox1x is actually more powerful than 9th gen series s. PS5 is only 2 & 1/12x more powerful than PS4pro.
Consoles hold PC games back but do so to to a greater degree by having generations standardise low spec for a decade. 8th gen would have been sufficient until Ai gen/path tracing is possible at high frame rate. Games can always be downgraded AFTER PC release. After PCs have mods and tweaks to make the most out of them. Consoles should be a final version several years behind the PC release.
Everything should be made for hardware that doesn't commonly exist, released when it's done, not when hardware can do it all. Let hardware develop to do it and that can be what consoles end up being.
I wonder why
Honestly Square Enix has made so much shit the past decade I want them to be bought up and killed by another company. You either die a hero who made awesome games or you live long enough to be remembered as dogshit.
They're too far gone at this point to course correct and make something awesome ever again.
Funnily the studio they partnered with to make some of their more recent AA hits is also owned by Kadokawa now. No more Bravely or Octopath kek.
My uncle works at Square Enix, his name is 'tumor weaks' and he says the building is just perpetually on fire at the moment.
He also said Part 3 is being downgraded to a glitchy power point presentation conducted over Zoom and that the current CEO is planning to commit seppuku on the rooftop of Square HQ.
It is unironically, unequivocally, jenover.
Damn Obama really fell off
S****b*** inc
Funny how the entirety of Ganker suddenly shut the frick up about it as rebirth shill threads appeared.
>sold off every western dev they had despite them making good games
What good games? Forspoken? Fricking nu-Tomb Raider?
Hitman
Deus Ex HR and MD
Also Nu-Raider may be shit but 2013 and Rise sold more than recent FF games kek
Forspoken was Japanese made, it was the FFXV team.
Post a screenshot of the credits, particularly the writers which was the part of the game people shit on the most
Oh the writers made the entire game, I didn't know.
The game also plays like ass, sounds like ass, looks like ass and runs like ass
>looks like ass
only the characters
the world isn't bad and the outfit design outside the MC is pretty good, they just put ugly characters in them
Headed by westerners though.
wtf westerners own square enix now????