Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be one of the biggest titles of 2024, and we're now only five months away from its launch!
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
I hope IX is still on the cards
Just a straight up remake which they expand a little bit nothing over ambitious
If IX dosent happen then VI and VIII will never be thought of.
What are they doing? Sales are falling and the costs are out of control. Big releases need to be absolute sales home runs now, and Final Fantasy sales have stagnated.
Now we know why Square didn’t fall over themselves to remake the original FF7 all these years ago. It certainly wasn’t a license to print money, at least not with what the expectations were. Each of these full on remakes drains an enormous amount of company resources for a razor thin profit margin.
I'm waiting for them to release the complete edition bundle, but it's definitely on my list.
Not rocket science. Compare sales numbers, development cycles, and budgets to the previous gens. We are all collectively burning up the industry from the inside out. Expectations are ludicrously high now for every release and sales are dropping for even the most prestigious of series.
We used to be satisfied paying $50-60 for a game that took 1/100th the budget and staff to make. Now gamers feel cheated if they have to pay the same for a game that took 100x the budget. We may be reaching the end of the line for this model of gaming.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Oh I’m with you. What’s worse is they can say, “Well we tried to make this amazing game and spend all this money on, but not enough people showed an interest. So no more of these since we can’t take a hit like that.”
The industry is going to take a dramatic shift. Mark my words on this.
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
NPD analyst Matt Piscatella has hinted at sales of Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth having underperformed in the US.
Its a great game but the texture resolution on props/environmental assets is unacceptable I dont think its right for a AAA videogame company to put out a game for $69.99 with such low quality assets. The character models and Character textures look great but again the blurry textures on environmental assets is shocking for a game on PS5. I see hardcore FF7 fans on reddit defending the asset quality however nobody defended the apartment door textures on FF7 Remake but for some reason nobody cares about FF7 Rebirth's abundance of low quality assets.
the textures are barely that bad at all. sounds like you never played it and are just going by some random screenshots you see online.
unlike the first game where the texture issue was more glaring, i've not run into this at all in rebirth
I really like the game but my heart dies a little when the map opens up and a laundry list of open world padding appears with those damn towers. I know they're optional but my OCD doesn't care! It's the reason I stopped playing Assassins Creed games, it just doesn't feel fun in the slightest. When Rebirth is laser focused on its actual story the game is top class.
The textures are really not that bad. There's some low res textures in some of the environment but generally it's decent. I honestly think the encouraging environmental textures in Stellar Blade are much worse, yet you don't hear anyone talking about this.
It's funny how often the term "analyst" gets tossed around nowadays. But again, that's the only way they can remain relevant.
He's been following the industry for decades, he's not just a random person on Twitter.
Exactly. He's an Executive Director at Circana/NPD. Not sure why analyst became a buzzword over the years. It's literally part of his job description to report on them. 🤣
Yeah. It's not about relevance, it's literally *his career*. Not tossed around, it's what he does and has been doing for a living.
They should of released it on Xbox and PC as PS5 owners don't seem to buy JRPG'S. Also they could of made a deal with MS to have it on gamepass Day 1 with MS giving them a few billion to make up for sales.
Hopefully the new CEO of SE will cancel all exclusive agreements with Sony and make Part 3 and all future SE games multi-platform.
Not wishful thinking at all as both FF 16 and Rebirth are both not selling well on PS5 and shows that PS owners are not that interested in JRPG'S. SE will have to recoup the cost of the games by releasing both game and all future games on as many platforms as possible.
Exclusives are a cancer in gaming so i don't understand why gamer would want a franchise like the FF franchise to die off because of PS fans not buying them.
"Exclusives are a cancer in gaming so i don't understand why gamer would want a franchise like the FF franchise to die off because of PS fans not buying them."
They are for Xbox because so little people are buying Xbox, now they have to put their games everywhere. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo will keep doing exclusives because it differentiate their consoles from the competition, it boosts hardware sales. Sony and Nintendo will never release anything on Xbox, so you guys get nothing while the rest of us get our exclusives plus Microsoft's.
Is this a real post? FF7 Crisis Core sold 5% on Xbox and over 80% on PS and you think that PS owners don't buy JRPGs? 😂😂 the sales didn't perform as well as Remake because that was released in Covid when people were home all the time, and it released to twice as many platforms users. And PC? Sure that would sell well, but then it'd take an extra year or two to come out. And I overlooked the part where you said "a few billion to make up for sales". A few billion is 50 million sales, you think the XB port is selling that? 🤣
people grew tired of this episodic greedy releases
better wait for the complete edition, no need to wait years between episodes
by the time they release another part, you already forgot where the story left
people want complete games not crumbs, glad it under-performs
that's a lesson
100 hour game is crumbs? Remake had a ton of content as well.
And what is episodic? People had to wait years after cliffhanger endings to see what happens to see the next "episode" like with Mass effect, halo 2, god of war 2, etc... did people complain they forgot what happened when the sequels came out?
Saying Square got greedy with Rebirth, it not having microtransactions and a massive amount of content is essentially brain dead.
l liked the episodic. I get more game over a time rather than one hit XD
I just don't like how...creepy sephiroth is with Cloud. Like the erotica fanfic writers and artists are going nuts.
The same thing could be said about any game that was made with sequels in mind though. If they released the whole remake project in one game it would've been much less ambitious. Some people like yourself might've been happier with a conservative Remake approach, but others probably would've complained about the unrealized potential of remaking the classic.
The original aged very well and is still perfectly playable. I just don't see anything particularly interesting that they could've accomplished with 3-5 years of production time for the entire Remake. At that point they probably would've scaled it back even further and it would've ended up being a slightly expanded version of the original with a new coat of paint and voiceover. Maybe that would've been a more profitable path, but I for one wouldn't have been interested in that and I'm glad that they went all out and gave the game the attention it deserves.
Eh it ain't that at all. 12 years of development costs isn't greed. They just wanted the project to the be the best it can be. If they rushed it and put it into one release it would have been a disaster. Now sales or not, the game is outstanding and will likely win game of the year. So they definitely succeeded in making it great. And I mean just play it again like I did before the next part comes out. It was given away on the monthly PS games so there's so excuse really.
The game isn't episodic, idk why people to this day keep saying that. It's no different than 13, 13-2, 13-3 or X, X-2. It's sequel based, and no one is tired of sequel based games or episodic for that matter cause episodic games aren't even all that common anymore.
No it's mainly People who played Remake and didn't like the changes didn't bother with Rebirth all together
It's always like this. FF8 sold very well on release because FF7 was awesome, meanwhile people didn't like FF8 as much as FF7, so guess what? FF8 caused FF9 to sell less at launch.
Can't freaking wait! I only have one tiny nitpick from everything I've seen so far. The ground clutter. There is a ton of pop-in going on when moving around with small rocks and foliage. I hope they can touch that up a bit before release. The game itself looks like everything I could have hoped for! I hope there are a ton of different cards to collect, for Queen's Blood.
Man, this is one of those games where when I saw the gameplay, I could tell immediately they’re raising the bar. I can’t tell you how hyped I am for this! It’s not crazy far out, but the wait is still getting to me.
There’s also Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Remake to juggle before then. Dang, 2024 is a good time to be a JRPG fan.
oooo boy i cant wait, im already dodging news and gameplay like a pro haha
this should be a good 75 hours of entertainment
looking forward to tomorrow where its 149 days away from launch