Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble - IGN
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Final Fantasy maker Square Enix has announced a company reboot amid tumbling profits.
  • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 months ago

    Been waiting for Steam releases of 16 and Rebirth since they launched. I’m guessing I’m not the only one.

    • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, my PC is beefier than a PS5, so I’m hoping I can get better 60fps results than the performance mode on PS5. So glad to see SE is taking multiplatform seriously. They’re probably the most egregious publisher in terms of setting sales targets well beyond what is reasonable.

  • Bone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    Keep your failing trash to yourself SE. No one needs mediocre JRPG after mediocre JRPG. The writing has been on the wall for a long time.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        I haven’t played any games in the Final Fantasy series since the Super Nintendo era…

        I think that, right there, is the problem SqEnix is facing. It’s games were fantastic a couple decades ago. While I wasn’t a fan, it could be argued that they peeked with FF7 and it’s why they keep re-making it. But, as the capabilities of systems and games themselves moved on, SqEnix kept pumping out the same, formulaic JRPGs. It’s all teens and girls in too short skirts out to save the world with MASSIVE MELODRAMA!!! (cue closeups of all characters looking shocked and screaming like idiots). And we all kinda out-grew that. While there is still a lot of terrible writing in games, I think there’s a bit less tolerance for that particular brand of schlock. We have such an amazing array of options available to us today, that we can be choosier with what we put up with. If SqEnix intended to compete, they may need to come up with something a bit new-er than “Final Fantasy 7, Rebirth, Again, Look at how well rendered Tifa’s tits are this time”.

        • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Square has had a lot of popular games past FF7. Just in the Final Fantasy series, they’ve had good success with ff9, ff10, ff12, ff14, and ff7 remakes. All of the others in the series are usually pretty well liked too. That’s just their final fantasy main line series however.

          They also have Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Marvel’s (both good and bad), and Kingdom Hearts. They also published Nier: Automata; but I’m not sure how much that counts as their game.

          All of those series have had successful and unsuccessful games, based on objective sales figures. It seems you may be thinking that SquareEnix == FF only, but that’s not really true. And sure, the FF games have a lot in common, but so do the Halo games, the CoD games, etc. That’s because they are all part of the same series and it is expected that they have similarities.