Now, as Square Enix is embarking on a journey to remake one game with three games, we’re learning why Square has decided to keep all three of these games exclusive to PlayStation consoles.
In an interview with the Washington Post, producer Yoshinori Kitase cites keeping Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and seemingly the third game exclusive to one platform has been a core part of the success of the first two games so far.
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.
Shouldn't have been more than one game. Such greed. They should've just made one complete game and that's it. Everything they said about not being able to do it was just a lie so they could milk as much as possible out of it. The same corporate greed split the hobbit into three parts for the no reason.
The professional,
I don't mind it being split into multiple games.
It gives them a chance to revise the combat and make a better game and implement new ideas iteratively.
The story is split into three chapters, but each game is pretty damn feature complete.
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
Am currently playing it and yes it looks like trash on performance mode. So I play it on graphics mode on 30fps
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.
Seriously. This is exactly what I’ve been harping on. The expectations of today’s gamers is a death spiral feedback loop.
People are going to complain about texture resolution for a game that is already massive at nearly 150 GB. Compared to previous gens, when we were just happy to have games that looked decent and struck a balance in performance and gameplay, today we will nitpick the smallest thing like it would actually make a difference. The law of diminishing returns is very real…. You can spend 3 more months and millions of dollars of development time to get graphics that look just a tiny bit better, or you can be reasonable and rational, look at things with a little of wisdom and perspective, and realize that it would be a terrible investment of resources. Having slightly better graphics on a title that already has a fixed market of buyers is not going to massively increase sales. It will just make all these companies go out of business even faster.
Things are a very tense crossroads this gen. Game publishers aren’t “allowed” to charge more for their games, and are chewed up for adding MTs or live service stuff, and yet are expected to keep adding more and more content, and better textures, because that 150 GB of game data isn’t enough for everyone yet. Something has to give, and it’ll be the gamers that will suffer the most in the end when the industry implodes or exits stage.
We are sowing what we will eventually reap.
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.
This is PS fan/liberal logic. Instead of actually having any facts to counter an opinion or perspective you don't like you just call the guy irrelevant or criticize him or his job.
Its the same with with kojima fans in the article where someone finally criticized his awful, self indulgent and overly expositional writing.
Liberal logic? Might want to fix your irrelevant political reference; that's straight out of Trump's playbook for literally everything he tries to say and do.
it's 100% boomer logic to attach the word "liberal" to people and things they don't agree with. Your first 2 sentences are ironic.
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? 🤣
That is such a stupid argument. As if every game made then sold so well. This should never have been more than one game and also what they did with the combat etc. turned a lot of people off. Then they made this one a PS5 exclusive.
Isn't stupid at all. People were home and playing more video games. That's plain fact. And if it was one game it would have been rushed and ruined. And the combat is outstanding. The only why some were turned off was because it wasn't turn based.
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.
Wow thats ridiculous. You're talking about a remake of one already completed game that was split into three parts due to greed and gameplay padding. Literally completely different from everything else you listed. Makes no sense.
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.
Really? You wouldn't have been interested? Everyone who bought ff7 remake still would've bought it.
Seems like the extra gameplay padding and open world stuff isn't what people wanted since the sales are so low. How did they mess up a remake of one of the most popular games ever when remakes and remasters are more successful than they've ever been now?
@TheProfessional: Personally I wouldn't have been interested in anything close to a 1:1 Remake. More often than not, I consider those to be a waste of resources. I prefer direct ports/remasters that keep everything about the original intact (which already exist for VII), or full reimagined Remakes that act as a supplement to the original without making it obsolete. The VII Remake project is by far the best example of how to do this well in my book.
VII Remake rumors have been swirling around for over a decade before it was officially announced and I never shared the general excitement about the idea, because I considered it pretty much impossible to do it justice.
There is a reason why modern FF games aren't as varied as they were during the golden age, which for me is the PS1 generation. It's easier to create rich and varied worlds when you're working at the much higher level of abstraction of the older games, but in modern AAA games towns aren't a handful of pre-rendered 2D backgrounds anymore and NPCs don't communicate exclusively via textboxes.
The point is that higher expectations in terms of production values have made the creation of wolrds like FF7's much less feasible in modern AAA gaming, which is reflected in the criticism of the fanbase when it comes to modern entries of the franchise.
Even as someone who likes most of the modern FFs there is clearly a different aura about the VII Remake. It's the first time that the franchise truly feels like it has recaptured the greatness of the golden age for me. In that sense it feels more authentic to me than a 1:1 Remake ever could, because it doesn't try to replicate what the original is today, but what it was in 1997. An insanely ambitious, jawdropping game that almost feels like it shouldn't be possible.
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.
Its a game that was already made being split into three parts. Totally different.
@ThePro
Except it's a complete reimagining of the original, and not just a 1 to 1 remake of the original which is only 1 game. I don't get in what way it's episodic. It's a game that has direct sequels and it was explained from the start that'll have at least 2 direct sequels, why would people bitch about that especially now that we've had two quality full length games?
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.
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Remedy has made a couple of changes to its core management team with the goal to grow Alan Wake and Control into larger franchises.
Changes like not being anti consumer? putting out Alan Wake Remastered on disc but not the sequel?
I don't really think that's true. I went out of my way to buy a PS5 to play FF VII: Rebirth. So, it's the other way around for me lol. I would have bought another Xbox (after trading mine in not too long ago) if it was only there to play. Final Fantasy's name recognition, on top of VII's renown in the gaming world is why it's moving a lot of units.
lol
FFXV was open world and released on the weak as heck Xbox One S day and date with everything else.
Ubisoft titles... Red Dead Redemption 2... Hogwarts Legacy... GTA V on the 360 and PS3.
No. Being exclusive isn't the reason it's a seamless map.
That's a laugh, because that was also the reason why FFXVI didn't perform as well as expected wasn't it?
Yeah the lump sum they're getting from Sony is definitely key to their success.