It's almost Black Friday, and Amazon has obliterated over 40% from the price of PlayStation 5 exclusive Final Fantasy 16.
Final Fantasy XVI Complete Edition, thankfully, sticks the landing with all the elegance of an Imperial Dragoon.
Final Fantasy XVI is out on Steam and Epic Games after a year-long exclusive reign on the PS5. We already tested the demo but weren’t satisfied with the range of environments available. And so, with the full release, we have tested Square Enix’s latest title across three different maps for a comprehensive optimization guide.
Square Enix recently released Final Fantasy XVI and FF7 Rebirth. However, the sales of these games did not meet their expectations.
“According to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmed, the sales of the games were underwhelming compared to previous entries in the series. Final Fantasy XVI sold fewer copies than its predecessor, Final Fantasy XV, while Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth failed to match the sales of Final Fantasy VII Remake.”
Wow, a shocking revelation indeed. I’m so shocked right now. I just can’t believe it. Ff16 should have sold more than Ff15 as it was only on Ps5 and FF15 was on every platform including toasters. Must be a terrible game then am I right? Just shut down the studio square they failed (sarcasm)
What? Ff7 rebirth sold less than remake? It was supposed to sell more than remake because it is on Ps5 only whereas remake is on ps4, ps5 and PC. Obviously Rebirth should sell more, it’s just logic. Common sense (sarcasm). All in all, fantastic analysis and expectations set by Square. Super realistic and definitely not unrealistic.
I have a similar projection: next week I’ll be the Queen of England
the remake comparison isnt all to fair, cause it came out a year, more or less, on pc.
and u dont see ppl running to the 16 pc version either ha buggy mess of a game on that platform
square is just ... well, square.
Lol you do know FF16 had ps5 crashing bugs on release right? Your 2nd line isn't logical either. You don't see people running to the PC version because all the marketing and release went to Playstation last year. This is an indictment on releasing on 1 platform in this day and age.
@LikAChicken - I played FF XVI on my PS5 from launch day and never had a single issue with any crashing personally. The game is just awful on PC though... It's such a letdown for a really great game. Was hoping to go through it again when it released on Steam. But definitely staying far away from that port until fans can mod-fix it.
@snookies12
I bought it on PC. I'm playing 4K ~80fps on avg native with no DLSS and max settings. The performance is better than the demo (only thing that isn't here is ultrawide support which would have been nice). PS5 was locked to 30fps.
This has been a better experience than DD2 which thankfully is receiving a patch for all systems. Still getting into the story but performance wise it's been good.
@LikAChicken I never crashed one time. It was one of the most polished games at launch in a while.
As an avid ff7 fan and even enjoyed the remake, i found rebirth to be incredibly underwhelming.
How did you find it underwhelming?? It took everything great about Remake and just made it all better. I could understand if you didn't like Remake, you might not be into Rebirth. But saying you liked Remake and not Rebirth seems a little confusing. (Unless you're just talking about some of the story differences from the original.)
FFXV sold more than 16 on the PS4 if Xbone sales are subtracted.
Neither of these games are killing it on PC, and i doubt Xbox would make much of a difference nowadays seeing as Sony has basically taken most of their userbase. Maybe you need to just accept that this bold new action game direction just didnt pan out for FF16. And Rebirth only seemed to get any attention from the the niche jrpg crowd. Personally as somebopdy whos 37 years old and has been around i feel the remakes just dont stack up to the original when you consider the modern gaming landscape. They did nothing that hasnt been done a thousand times before, people just didnt care there was very little hype.
@snookies12 i just found rebirth to be so full of filler and mini games and a convoluted story that took out the importance of what transpired in the original. all the throwing boxes that were devoid of fun was just a giant waste of time.
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.
"look, go multiplat."
They´d tried the exclusive route with Playstation and at least for the current generation it´s been failure after failure. Babylon´s Fall, Forspoken, Foamstars, FFXVI, FF7 Rebirth...
Now they´re following the multi platform route and leaving the exclusivity behind. They´ll be better off that way, just like all third party publisher.
Going fully exclusive with a single platform when the said platform is not fully funding your games, is just a fool´s errand. Especially nowadays.
Short of expectations doesn't mean a failure. Both final fantasy are successful games that still fell short of Square's expectations and sold less than predecessors. As for " fool's errand " well, Koei tecmo and Skill announced Both Rise of the ronin and stalla blade have exceeded expectations. Those games are only PlayStation at the moment.
Going multi plat will be good for them but there's still a place for console exclusives to be successful.
Actually the quality of the games were to blame also Babylon foamstar n forspoken were universally criticized.
@trez1082
"Short of expectations doesn't mean a failure. Both final fantasy are successful games that still fell short of Square's expectations and sold less than predecessors."
For shareholders, executives, partners and investors that were projecting ROI based on sales, those games are nothing but failures.
"As for " fool's errand " well, Koei tecmo and Skill announced Both Rise of the ronin and stalla blade have exceeded expectations."
Last time I checked, Koei Tecmo´s expectations and predictions for Rise of the Ronin fell short as they were expecting that game to sell more than 5 Million copies. (I mean, really?)
https://gamingbolt.com/rise...
Stellar Blade is a completely different case as Sony money hatted Shift Up to keep that game away from both Xbox One and Series consoles while making it a timed-exclusive game to Playstation delaying it´s release on PC. It´s a PAID exclusive which falls in line with what I´d said in my OP:
"Going fully exclusive with a single platform when the said platform is not *fully funding* your games, is just a fool´s errand. Especially nowadays."
My point stands. Have a nice week.
what u said is not wrong at all, about the exclusivity, However.
square finds themselves, as many other Japanese devs, that their games just dont sell on xbox.
and nintendo has created a hardware space, were these devs just dont wanna do extra work to make their demanding games run on that hardware.
and pc .. well, its also alot of work.
so, its not too cut and dry to say "oh they should all go multi".
Forspoken was funded by Sony but outside of this FF exclusivity seems to be just because of the franchises history/ Sony used to have a stake in square it's not a financial or contractual obligation so it's a real head scratcher why xvi and vii remake were exclusive.
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.
“ Amazon has obliterated over 40% from the price”
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It’s not an RPG. Action/Adventure game