PlayStation Blog: "Two-part Tokyo Game Show demo gives us a tantalizing taste of what’s to come next February."
Square Enix says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fell below expectations, but it's a special game regardless
I love these two games, and no disrespect for the original which I played on my PS1 and several times since then, I would much rather play the remakes. The game play is just so much fun and the characters just have so much more life and personality plus it has the modern sensibilities that are hard to give up.
It's a shame that they haven't found the success SE wanted, and while people of course want to blame PlayStation I feel like Final Fantasy just doesn't have the effect it used to. Younger people have zero attachment to the series and have zero nostalgia.
And I still think that PlayStation will be the best selling platform by a long shot, FF16 on steam even at $50 isn't selling nearly as well as it did on PS5 where it sold 3.5 million in its first week. Looking at the numbers on Steam if the game has sold 1 million so far I'd be surprised.
It was everything I wanted from it to be honest. And part 3 will expand on that with airship travel. Hope Switch 2 is powerful enough for it, because that's where the sales are in Japan. It deserves success with the love that went into it.
I think over time, this endeavor will be worth the investment. Part 3 will release, along with the inevitable bundling of all three games on other consoles. I do think it's a mistake to not offer DLC this time around like with Intergrade, that would have been a nice additional revenue stream for SE.
The remake project is so frustrating. For everything they get right, they get something wrong, at least in opinion. I am ultimately glad I stuck with and played both games, but I can totally understand fans who bailed after all the horrible changes they have made to the original story. Still hope we see the combat director for remake give us his own take on the franchise in the future. Also really hope Nomura and Kitase retire after this project is over. They are way past their prime.
Digital Foundry writes: "Based on footage seen here, we're looking at a 60fps presentation that's a huge improvement over the standard PS5 *and* irons out its performance drops. And in some respects, the footage suggests that Pro at 60fps even has advantages over the base machine in its 30fps quality mode."
Sold. This is why I waited. I stopped on chapter 4 cause I had a feeling the Pro would boost this. PSSR is doing the damn thing here in its initial outing. This is really an indictment on AMD tbh because they have not keeps up with Nvidia's DLSS at all. PSSR is not as good as the latest DLSS yet, but in its first iteration it is worlds ahead of FSR. Kinda odd to be having Microsoft and Sony invent their own solutions.
That's impressive on Performance mode for badly optimized game by a developer who clearly doesn't care because their games don't meet their "expectations"... But that's is still a badly optimized game by a lazy developer who never bothered to use FSR in performance mode to fix the image Quality
And not all developers are like that making bad ports and let the 900$ hardware brute force it in performance mode.... That among very few games are outliers
This is actually a significant improvement over the base model. This is the type of demonstration/presentation Sony should be giving to sell their new console.
Edit: Needs to be watched on a proper 4K screen to fully appreciate. Phones do not give the improvements the justice deserved.
Square Enix recently released Final Fantasy XVI and FF7 Rebirth. However, the sales of these games did not meet their expectations.
look, go multiplat.
but i doubt its gonna be such a game changer in the future.
u cant release any of your never games on the switch cause of the lower power (and the additional work for handheld mode amd making your games actuallyrun on it), switch 2 will have the same issue for most of them.
xbox releases wont give u the numbers ur missing either.
and your pc releases are always so messy.
Tbh I never completed either got bored half way through each game overhyped imo
I knew it all along. I really disliked and was soo bored of FF16 and Rebirth is a good game but it's an overstuffed turkey plagued with unnecessary sections with convoluted anime nonsense story.
Lol this pic illustrates how outlandish the swords have always been to me but I still love it
so jealous
but atleast they shared some info and the install size (150gb) with us xD