[Exclusive] Phantom Blade Zero 30-Min Demo Will Be Invite-Only

exputers · 2024-02-14T15:13:24Z

According to the Game Producer of Phantom Blade Zero, the game's upcoming demo will be "open to a certain group of people invited from [the developer's] social media."

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thecodingart36d ago

No one does care about it - and shouldn’t

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S2Killinit36d ago

Well, I don’t think people care why developers are leaving xbox, whether it is or isn’t MS’s fault is something for MS to figure out.

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GamerRN35d ago

I feel like these articles are just trying to further self prophesize Microsoft's exit

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gold_drake36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

i mean, if theres no presence in asia, then i dont blame them.

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PhillyDonJawn36d ago

Why not put it on gamepass for the extra money and recognition?

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neutralgamer199236d ago

Whether it’s fake or not it’s this mindset the main reason for games to skip Xbox. Way too many Xbox gamers just want every game to be on GP and they skip buying games which aren’t on Xbox

You do know it costs 7 figures to port over the game to Xbox so if in the end publishers won’t even make they porting costs back they aren’t interested in doing all the work for such a small profit or break even

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PhillyDonJawn36d ago

I didn't know it take that much money to port, but I'm saying assuming ms would pay 7 figures why wouldn't you put it on gp. You can't really lose while having potential to gain.

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Reaper22_35d ago

Y9u have no clue what you're talking about. Just because you make up crap doesn't mean it's true.

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Einhander197236d ago (Edited 36d ago )

How about xbox owners just support the devs and pay for it. Maybe if they did that so many devs wouldn't be so willing to delay games or skip the platform...

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S2Killinit36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

@BiasedChris
Square reported they made more profit by releasing exclusivity on PlayStation.

Welcome to N4G btw.

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esherwood35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

Quit talking like it’s a team thing. Xbox owners are just like PlayStation owners, if they see value they’ll buy something. Now Phil making it harder for games to be ported by splitting the sku’s and demanding parity between s and x is another thing along with there being less Xbox’s then ps out there. People who have gamepass payed for it so weather Microsoft makes it worth it for developers to join or not is on them. I’ve bought plenty of games this year outside of gamepass

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PhillyDonJawn35d ago

That make 0 sense. How can you buy and support something that's not out yet lol

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ChasterMies35d ago

If Microsoft paid them enough, I’m sure they would.

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Einhander197236d ago (Edited 36d ago )

It's not Microsoft moving away from consoles it's gamers moving away from xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC are all doing fine.

And xbox fans only playing whats on game pass and not buying games doesn't help.

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S2Killinit36d ago

You can’t blame the xbox fans from only wanting to play on gamepass, once you start paying into that, you would be stupid to also buy games because you will be paying more money per year to play the same amount of gaming.

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Lightning7735d ago

Wait, if that were true then why is FF16 goin over to Xbox if they made all their money on PS? Why are square saying they're "aggressively" seeking multiplatform release?

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S2Killinit35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

I think you are trying to respond to my comment above?

Answer:
Simple, they did what was profitable by releasing the game on PlayStation, now that the dust has settled, they will slowly port the game over to xbox with no rush, and possibly without the worry of achieving parity. Its not like I’m making this up, they released their financials recently. Also, this seems to be strategy for a number of devs, not just Square.

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Lightning7735d ago

Squares Financial reports back in May 13 showed that both Final Fantasy 16 and Rebirth fell short of expectations.

"Bloomberg journalist Takashi Mochizuki offered some context based on comments to press by Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu. Kiryu confirmed that both Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fell short of their sales expectations, as did Foamstars, another PlayStation exclusive. Kiryu also reiterated a need to find a balance between “individual creativity and organizational discipline.”

If something was so profitable then the exclusive approach would be working in spades with no need of a multiplat release, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

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Einhander197235d ago

Lightning77

FF16 was always a timed exclusive, that was known before the game even released.

And just for the record multiplatform doesn't necessarily mean xbox. Switch for example has the largest share of Square exclusives by far.

And you can say whatever you want, but the writing is on the wall about the future of xbox. Xbox is clearly becoming less of a priority for developers not more.

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S2Killinit35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

@Lightning

“short of expectations” is subjective and doesn’t mean their strategy of not developing on xbox hasn’t been a success. Again, Take a look at Square’s financial report and it says their profits increased during the period.

They could “expect” the world, and fall short of it, but still make more profits by not releasing on xbox (which is what their report objectively indicated)

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Lightning7735d ago

"And just for the record multiplatform doesn't necessarily mean xbox. Switch for example has the largest share of Square exclusives by far."

The rumor it's coming to Xbox and PC but it's possible it could be PC first Xbox later. simultaneous approach makes more sense but who knows gotta wait.

You really think 16 can run on Switch? Switch 2 yes but that's not until next year. Switch running rebirth is a stretch, even if it does it would have severe performance issues and nearly unplayable.

"And you can say whatever you want, but the writing is on the wall about the future of xbox. Xbox is clearly becoming less of a priority for developers not more."

Not my problem at all, that's MS issue. They put themselves in this mess they need to get themselves out. Has nothing to do with me.

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Einhander197235d ago

Lightning77

Don't be so fixated on FFXVI it's an irrelevant deflection.

What we're talking about here is the continued delays and games skipping xbox specifically Phantom Blade Zero. And that people on xbox need to actually purchase games and generate profit for the developers to continue to justify future games coming to the platform.

"Not my problem at all, that's MS issue. They put themselves in this mess they need to get themselves out. Has nothing to do with me."

Then you shouldn't have commented.

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HyperMoused35d ago

Its MS moving away from xbox, the writings on the wall, they have made it so buying or owning an xbox is irrelevant, also gamepass isnt good for devs..and thats why people are moving away from xbox

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Einhander197235d ago

Microsoft wouldn't be moving away from consoles it they were selling then as fast and PlayStation and Nintendo, if they had sold 100m+ last gen and were on pace to sell 100m+ this gen too they wouldn't be moving away from the console.

Game Pass itself was a product of their own poor hardware and software sales last gen.

Are they moving away from consoles, yes absolutely. But, lets not put the cart before the horse, there is a reason they are moving away from consoles and that's hardware sales.

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Lightning7735d ago

"Don't be so fixated on FFXVI it's an irrelevant deflection."

I wasn't talking to you about that, you just budded in. I was talkin to S2.

His facts were off so I corrected him about it.

Like I said sounds like a MS issue with this whole thing. They put themselves in these goofy situations.

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Einhander197235d ago

He wasn't talking to you, he was replying to me. You butted in first with your unrelated FFXVI comment.

And he was right.

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Lightning7735d ago

"He wasn't talking to you, he was replying to me. You butted in first with your unrelated FFXVI comment."

Yeah and? I was talking to him not you about the FF comment, did you make the FF comment? No you didn't why does it matter to you? He mentioned the Final Fantasy in another comment where I couldn't reply. Don't do that ignorant stuff you're known to do, don't do it, don't go there. Control yourself.

How was he right explain. Is Square lying now? They made money on the game and the sales started off good but slowed and fell short of their expectations. If it was selling so remarkably then they wouldn't need to go on PC and Xbox at all, no exceptions. The last FF remake that release on PS4 there were no talks of other platforms but now they are years later.

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anast36d ago

Series S

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esherwood36d ago

Yep Phil ended up being the worst xbo ceo ever. He literally said good games couldn’t change Xbox’s marketplace position and threw in the towel. It 100% would change it if they had reliably released good games but I can’t remember the last Xbox exclusive I had to have let alone consecutive titles. I’ve been an Xbox guy since the og and have never owned a PlayStation but my next console will 100% not be another Xbox for once. Either ps pro or making the jump to pc

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Profchaos36d ago

There's plenty of cases where developers just don't get the support they need to assist in publishing their games just this morning I read a mertroidvania was cancelled because they couldn't get enough support from ms to help with some bugs that should of taken two weeks instead would take 14 months.

Capcom is another example where there old engine won't work and only since getting media attention Xbox support is helping with getting it running

Xbox was designed as a easy to develop for platform but clearly since the x one that is no longer true by all accounts it's now the most challenging and least rewarding with small player bases that don't really pay attention unless your game is on gp

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purple10135d ago

they need to grease the sliders, there getting stuck recently more often than not.

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Profchaos35d ago

Yeah agree but I think it's more symptoms of the xsx development environment and depreciation of frameworks that the xone supported along with a need to support two skus has just caused developers to simply go it's not worth it and leave the platform.

Ps2 was tough to drv for but it was the most popular system around so you had to get good the xsx however its chicken feed it's like the Saturn or the jag it's a why bother all that work will barely move the sales needle

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purple10135d ago (Edited 35d ago )

Almost brought a jaguar, never got round to it.

I remember hearing when ps5 / xsx was released. Yes Xbox has 10 more power
Or 17 percent etc

But ps5 has a separate decompression chip

Also has better compression of data using kraken which is more used industry wide

Coupled to the ssd which is twice as fast as xsx

It doesn’t take an astrophysicist to conclude ps5 can push data arround way better.

Xsx has 56 cu and ps5 only 36 odd

They are changing this with the pro. It will also have 56. Or maybe 60

Its going to dominate gaming in the £499 range

So yeh my point is you can argue specs on paper all day long, but it appears developers are using ps5 to it’s potential easier than xsx due to this moving data arround, the Japanese are literally doing more with less, & with the pro they’ll be doing more- with- more

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Agent7535d ago

I last powered up my Xbox Series X around 18 months ago. Microsoft need to sort out Windows and forget about Xbox console. Windows died after XP and Xbox died after the 360. Knock out games for PC and PlayStation and develop VR games.

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Yi-Long35d ago

I was just in Japan, and you’ve got stores with many MANY Playstation games, and many MANY Switch games, and then just one tiny little stand with Xbox ‘games’, and it’s just Gamepass boxes. So they’ll have Forza Horizon and Flight Sim boxes etc, but the boxes just tell you to get Gamepass to play those games. It’s ridiculous.

Of course people are gonna turn away from a gaming console when Microsoft themselves no longer seem to understand and/or care that they are in the game console business, and instead only care about selling a service/subscription.

They have a whole bunch of neat stuff lined up, based on their last big presentation, which was surprisingly impressive imo, but if I can’t just go to a store and buy those games, physical, then honestly, I’ll just buy and play something else instead.

The sad thing about all this is that I believe if Microsoft had played their cards right, they had a big opportunity to make a huge comeback these past few years. Sony dropped the ball (again) on some stuff (lack of ‘smaller’ games, pricing, censorship, etc), and Switch is at the end of its life. Instead, it has chosen to pretty much make the Xbox hardware irrelevant. And of course the huge mistake of demanding every game runs on the Series S console, which holds ambitious devs back from getting the most out of the Series X.

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ChiefofLoliPolice35d ago

No one has ever cared about Xbox. It's been on a decline for years...

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Markdn35d ago

Microsoft. Has done nothing but undermine the console gaming industry, and why would they care? it's small change to them. I believe every industry needs competition but unfortunately Microsoft doesn't seem to care enough to come to the party

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TheEroica35d ago

Microsoft isn't out for the console sale as much as we want them to be in the old console race. They're not gonna dump millions into these regions when they can make many many more millions selling their games.

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Profchaos35d ago

Seems they don't know what they want they want to sell subscriptions and games at the same time if subscriptions grow but sales of a game don't hit they are disappointed if a game sells well but subscriptions don't climb they are also disappointed.

It's almost like square everything they do equals we are disappointed

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