Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty says the first party teams are aware that the expectation going forward will be to showcase gameplay for their titles.
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.
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.
- 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!
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I clicked on "read full story" and it want's me to click on an amazon link to see the price. This isn't a helpful article.
So early 2025 then, why even show SoD at the series S/X console reveal event then ? That's a joke tbh making out the games at the reveal event were like 2 years away to get you to buy a Xbox when in reality it has took them 3 years plus to release anything.
Lol ok. So are gta 6 and two dozen other games people are looking forward to more than these.
Those games are still 2 years away from being released? Smh.
Why would you show State of Decay as early as they did? I thought this game was 2024 at worst…. Now it’s 2025 confirmed
This is one of the many major differences between Sony and Nintendo versus Microsoft. You’ll see a Sony showcase or a Nintendo one and think “wow that’s it?” When in reality those are games coming out within the next 6 months or so. There may be ONE or TWO year or more out games in there but those are usually blockbusters and usually just a year out. Final Fantasy 16 (which if you hadn’t played the demo you’re nuts), Spider-Man 2 (the first time it was shown about a year ago), Wolverine for example… Nintendo does the same with Zelda, Xeno games, Splatoon 2. When you found out about the game it was almost complete.
Microsoft is perfectly fine with using showcases and such as a chance to sell eventualities. They sold the Xbox one on the power of the cloud. Eventually it would be 2 or more times as powerful. People in chats and forums would argue for the cloud and its impending impact.
Sony will ALWAYS have quality first party games in the pipe. You literally never know what they might show. Every game they sold you a PS5 with trailer wise and sizzle reel wise has come out long ago. How has Microsoft competed with that? Showing trailers. Then at the next event a few more trailers of the same games. Then at the next event a few more trailers of the same game but this time with a snippet of gameplay and still no dates. (But somehow they’re given a pass). I’ve had my series X since day one and the only games that came out that Microsoft tried to sell the system on is Halo infinite and Forza. Everything else was obviously so far from completion that you have to wonder, why show it? Hell, I forgot about Redfall, but talk about mismanagement. If they had not bought Zenimax and acquired what they already had in the works the X wouldn’t even have that. (Or HiFi as it was a shadow drop) Point is clear though, Microsoft will tell you ANYTHING and show you ANYTHING to get you invested. You’ll get what you came for…. Eventually.