Square Enix Moving On From PlayStation Exclusivity - Luke Reacts

👉🏼 LINKS: linktr.ee/lukestephens 👈🏼
--
Luke Stephens is a Content-Creator and Streamer that co-streams on KZbin and Twitch. This channel has Live Stream clips and highlights in addition to the streams themselves. Check out Luke's main channel & other content by going to: linktr.ee/lukestephens !!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗
║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣
╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣
╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Subscribe and I'll be your bestest friend!
#gaming #LukeStephens #ps5 #xbox

[@ShouVertica]

Second sales are so low, these companies are killing themselves for short term profit.

[@Alex_Martin_]

That's what happens when company's only bow to share holders who don't care about long term profitability and would happily sink a company for a quick cash grab.

[@christonchev9762]

y they don't think about the long term and i bought years later FF Remake on PC but i barely touched it cause if i finish it now by the time they release FF Reb on PC i would forget what the story was about

[@Blast1314]

This shouldn’t have been a thing, you shrink your user base you get lower sales, FF7:Rebirth and FF16 should have been multi-platform on launch, I know multiple people who wanted to play these games but couldn’t justify buying a PS5 for 1 or 2 games, it should have been Multi-platform from the jump and I’m glad that I will be able to play FF16 on my pc soon

[@human3504]

It's a waste in my opinion to buy a console/handheld just to play one game. It benefits the console maker more than the developer.

[@Blast1314]

@@human3504that’s the problem with the PS5 exclusives specifically, if you have either a PC or Xbox Series console, the only reason to get a PS5 is for like 12 games, TWELVE, Sony hasn’t done a great job getting compelling exclusives to sell the PS5 to people, been hearing people say “why is x not on blank platform”, it’s like Sony hates money

[@BleachO]

Agree! I’m all for exclusives going the way of the dodo. Maybe a 3-6 months window of exclusivity but in this day and age you are locking out a lot of ppl. I been a console gamer all my 29 hrs of life, last week I bought my first ever gaming of and I’m leaving console behind for the most part.

[@zerog_0]

I wanted to play ff16 so bad but my hyped went down

[@blackrahk2037]

​@@Blast1314Sony sold 21 million PS5s last year alone. Xbox has sold 25 million Xbox Series TOTAL! PC gamers biggest gripe right now is not being able to buy a four year old PlayStation game 😂😂. Helldiver's and Stellar Blade the to biggest games right know are PlayStation games! FF7 and FF16 are STILL exclusives. Rise of the Ronin exclusive. Square Enix problem is that they made a bunch of other trash games not they need to recoup the costs. Why do you act like PS5 isn't the #1 selling console right now by a long way. Check the sales charts. Switch had more Total sales but its been out for 3 more years.

[@marcosramos5117]

If Sony wants exclusivity they need to make it themselves-I can’t imagine why a 3rd party studio would limit themselves? I know Square had a great history with Sony but they gotta keep evolving as a studio.

[@inyobase127]

This, I agree. First party game? Sure exclusive all you want. 3rd party titles doing it is ridiculous.

[@tomhanke7703]

​@@inyobase127well if they get payed for a exclusive. Dont know whats wrong about that

[@victory7763]

It was always coming to PC...

[@TheBatDERP]

I would not be surprised if Square Enix saw the writing on the wall with Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and the region restrictions. The profits would only drop further as the market is more squeezed.

[@christonchev9762]

y i don't think that Sony can put PSN on any FF Game cause they do not own the IP or the company while with Helldivers 2 they own the IP and with Tsushima they own both

[@vault29a]

shit take

[@chubbybehem0th]

The tweet at the end is wild 🤣

[@pimpmywiki]

It's so off the crazy scale that we'd need a whole new scale of measurement like we do for distance in space or on the atomic level.. Wheeeee crazy train bro

[@maorcules9274]

it's a good thing. more people should be able to play the ff7 remake and 16

[@DRAGONOFDESTINYZ]

They're both fantastic games

[@maorcules9274]

@@DRAGONOFDESTINYZ rebirth is probably top 5 rpg of all time ( in my opinion of course) and 16 is a super solid action game

[@dandandan8686]

I agree with the barriers that the franchise ends up imposing on new players, but what scares me most is the fact that people don't research ANYTHING about the products they can buy, it's simply scary. When I went to buy Persona 5, I took a moment to understand if it was something continuous, sequential, or if each game was a totally different story. People don't do the minimum, it's surprising.

[@FloripesTavares]

Modern audiences are really lazy

[@Waliant8349]

While going multiplatform would help, that isn’t the only reason why Square’s games hasn’t been doing well lately….

[@dstephengantt6096]

A re4 style remake for parasite eve would print them money and have mass market appeal

[@BrodieBr0]

I agree!

[@williamedwards4151]

Oh lawd, that would be awesome.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

Never even heard of it been gaming since the mid 90’s

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

Been saying this for years. Or basically imagine 7R combat but just as Barrett essentially.

[@dstephengantt6096]

@fenrirsfolly92 how have you been gaming since the 90s and never heard of parasite eve?

[@blakerogers9600]

The end of this video is the hardest ive ever laughed at a Luke Stephens video lmao

[@BlueBloodPenn]

Hard to create mass market appeal when they agree to deals that literally shut out a huge percentage of the market.

[@victory7763]

It was always coming to PC. You think Remake came to PC but Rebirth wasn't?

[@fenrirsfolly92]

@@victory7763and now they’re coming to Xbox like they were originally supposed to

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

That was the most unhinged take I have ever heard about gaming on twitter FROM TWITTER EVERYTHING ON TWITTER IS UNHINGED BUT THIS WAS ANOTHER LEVEL.

[@ViktorAndy]

At this point i'm not sure what should i do - do i buy a next gen PS or stick to PC only now that it looks like most of PS games are launching on PC??

[@tjwoffy94]

Good all games should be available on all platforms that can run it. Simple as that.

[@bolladragon]

There were some NFTs linked to a few limited edition statuettes you could purchase from Square-Enix that were FF7 related.

[@dluk9494]

Isn't steam giving some kind of tokens every time you buy a game? I think they are called badges? 7:30

[@Theblackvortex75]

About time good and yes now more people can play they make more money we get more games

[@GerardoPerez]

No idea why square would think going exclusive on PS was a good idea when you literally alienate all potential sales from xbox and steam. Final fantasy 16 was especially weird having it locked on one console. Makes no sense at all from a business stand point in the long run.

[@waderogers4785]

This is probably a hot take but I feel as tho rdr2 has a lot of barriers to entry mainly for the fact its a prequel packaged as a sequel and a very long story which is double if not triple the length of ff16 but aside from that I feel as tho square needs to do what they did in ff15 stating it is a ff for beginners and long time fans of the series that way there isn't as much of a barrier to entry

[@j85grim4]

I think the devs agree with you about barriers until a Sony executive with a suitcase full of money comes into the office. Then, all of a sudden, barriers are good thing....

[@Dragonk116]

Makes no sense because they released FF15 on both PlayStation and Xbox systems (PC got it later) it makes me wonder like why no just keep it multiplatform to begin with? Like release it on PlayStation but also Xbox and PC too? Like I want to play FF16 and Rebirth but ain't no way I'm just going to get an entire freaking system just for those games.

[@mithro1860]

Days of console/PC exclusively is dying....and gamers should rejoice in the fact.

[@gabrielwilliams8827]

On another note I hope helldivers 2 comes to Xbox as well. Imo, a live service exclusive just doesn’t make a lot of sense. I understand story driven exclusives like GOW or Insomniac Spider-Man but a live service is supposed to appeal to as many people as possible so why restrict a portion of gamers that already may want to play your game? There’s a new Sony director who may be more open to this at least.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

If they bring Xbox the halo Vets would win the war in one week. I don’t think the servers could handle it. But either way I WANT IT.

[@KingAgniKai]

Sony is never willingly putting a 1st party game on Xbox. Let it go.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

@@KingAgniKailet us dream!

[@Susanoo7108]

It's telling that people are only talking about the Final Fantasy ganes when it's also their (already) multiplatform games that are struggling to sell well. Plus, their Nintendo exclusives (which consist of more exclusive games than than PlayStation exclusive games) don't really hit the mainstream heights of popularity.

[@christonchev9762]

y cause the Nintedo games are made for the younger audience(u won't allow your 8y old kid to play a Horror game would u?) while Consoles are for mature audince and PC is all around all in one

[@icecoldcabbage4329]

That’s not strictly true they don’t have a lot of true multi platform games, they are either tied to the epic store, on Sony and Nintendo but not pc or some other mix, they don’t have a lot of true multiplatform games , they also highlighted the increased dev costs and lower than expected sales from rebirth , remake and 16 so they didn’t achieve the sales they wanted on Sony or on Nintendo etc and really any 3 rd party is cutting their nose off to spite their face unless they release everywhere, there’s people who will buy these games on steam if they have access or Xbox or iOS or where ever

[@kjh4496]

No. 16 and Rebirth did not perform well. Just stop with this copium that it was other games.

[@Susanoo7108]

@kjh4496 I think I meant to say "also" instead of "actually" there. I don't know much about Rebirth, but 16 didn't do that well last time I checked. I'll need to edit that part.

[@BlazeSwigglePlayzMc]

I find it funnyy how divided people are in terms of exclusivity. On one hand you have people praising it cause it gives you arguably the best reason to purchase a console at a business stand point, then you have the PC gamers complaining cause they can't play it, then you have every one being perfectly fine with the nintendo switch and its shit ton of exclusives, then you have others complaining that the reason xbox is failing in terms of console sales is because of lack of exclusives on that platform and no real reason to purchase.

[@theduck2970]

The real problem is that people are being too tribal with their favourite platforms hence they're intentionally using points that aren't exactly truthful or clear to argue for their side. For example, the idea that exclusivity can bring competition into gaming is true in some ways but it won't necessarily stop the release of mid or overrated games as the developers contracted to a platform still HAVE to make a good game in the first place. Case in point; FF16. Good game but there's a reason it "didn't sell well" according to Squeenix.

[@tomhanke7703]

​@@theduck2970 well i like PS exclusives becsuse they are run 100 better when they are focused on 1 Plattform and the graphic is better with RT and all that but i got a very strong pc so its fine for me

[@theduck2970]

@@tomhanke7703 By right, performance for an exclusive HAS to be good. Otherwise, it makes a group of devs look bad for not even being able to make a game run on one platform. But yes, a lot of PS exclusives do look very nice in general and have great art design.

[@tomhanke7703]

@@theduck2970 yes thats true

[@nicholasgough]

Square need to do something similar to what they did when FF7 came out. To make a final fantasy that breaks the mould of what a jrpg looks like to non jrpg players, a pseudo-futuristic setting, mature tones, no ‘anime’ bullshit, market it for mass appeal. FF7 was so many people’s first, it was all kingdoms etc before then, and people just saw a cool af looking game and went I have to play that shit.

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

I wish they'd move into making more deus ex games 😞

[@nichi8404]

they sold the rights to embracer group and embracer group closed Montreal studio that was working on it.

[@ThePowerOfOneThePowerOfTwo]

They don't even own the IP anymore. They sold it to Embracer group

[@Stri4ker21]

@@nichi8404 Embracer didn't close Montreal but they have made some layoffs.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

So one thing i would love to know...what did square get for exclusivity was it money ? and if so how much ? and who were the people who did the deal as they had to know making it a Ps5 exclusive was going to limit sales

[@kylewavey6206]

It's a lot of money. Millions. We're never gonna get the exact numbers. But it's usually worth it for devs to take the money. It's practically free money if the game sells well anyways. But if the game doesn't sell well....

[@dstephengantt6096]

Playstation paid over 300 million to keep just ff7 remake off of xbox

[@atonshonra]

And now the earlier Final Fanasy games are being removed from PS plus at the end of this month. It makes me wonder if they will now appear on gamepass.

[@jamesharmon7699]

As a former Final fantasy fan since the SNES days. Square has been on decline since 2003 when they merged with Enix and lost the talent responsible for their major successes up to that point. Now their games are mediocre or plain bad.

[@Mazzus21]

This is what I wish Nintendo would do! (But I know it's different because Nintendo wants to sell their hardware so they need those exclusives, whereas Square doesn't get profit from PS5 sales) I'm also not surprised to see this given Sony's own recent penchant for feeding us their exclusives and putting them on PC a year later (so psyched to play Ghost of Tsushima later this week!).

[@Goobzor]

i can see steam doing it if they only allow sales on the steam marketplace where they take a cut of those sales. and over time it could be more profitable with people selling games at deeper discounts for people that will not pay the store price and they get a cut. and all the money in the steam ecosystem. allowing the person that sold to take that money and buy more stuff on steam. when they do steam gets more from that sale.

[@who610055]

💯 they need to drop the number system ff16 would’ve been a great starting point for most people but yeah people just see the number 16

[@oliverkick915]

I have noticed a majority of people saying exclusives are bad are Xbox users… not saying all, but a majority. Nintendo and Sony are doing just fine having exclusives

[@inuclearpickle8628]

People like to bitch plain and simple but as soon as Nintendo releases the switch 2 people will talk but how great exclusives are. In my opinion exclusives are good for competition

[@TheParish702000]

PlayStation really started all this with crying over the Call of Duty being bought by Xbox. I still don’t understand how a dying game like COD is cornering the market. Just an opinion.

[@inuclearpickle8628]

@@TheParish702000because CoD is CoD it can be utter shit and still sell millions yearly. With most live services you see developers fumble hard CoD would need to completely die before someone can take it’s place. Unless Xbox really fucks up CoD isn’t going anywhere kinda like the people who buy sports games

[@jefftheindianchief8279]

If you've ever dabbled in a Nintendo system, the exclusivity of their games is a double-edged sword. Lots of their older titles are locked to old hardware. It sells systems well enough, but Nintendo hardly tries to preserve their catalog, much less push for remakes, remasters & re-releases most of the time. Exceptions exist, but they're hardly common. It makes sense that Xbox's audience stands against exclusivity, they've been sharing a space with PC players for a while, and it help that they have backwards compatibility & emulation capabilities. Sony's case is similar to Nintendo. The fact that they're recently bringing titles to PC means that they see just how expansive the market is, but Sony might have ulterior motives to go with these Steam ports.

[@Alex_Martin_]

Not an Xbox fan. Exclusives are objectively bad. Consoles these days are just overly locked down PCs. There is no reason people shouldn't be able to buy whatever box they want and play whatever they'd like.

[@gregeddie6751]

I didn't know they were ps exclusive tbh

[@ericmclaughlin73]

Hopefully this means the PC release of Rebirth will be sooner than later.

[@kingsmerte3629]

All the old FF players and FF14 players are on PC, because you can pretty much only play them on PC. Final Fantasy's console exclusivity doesn't make sense

[@narfd.8837]

Final Fantasy as a franchise will probably leave the trail of numbered releases sooner rather than later, removing a barrier for the most casual people. But if you look at their numbers and how heavily they missed their projections (by about a third, 100 million) it makes it hard to believe that Square even knows how to calculate with their own product portfolio anymore. Those are no small differences, it's as if they thought the PS5 market to be at least 50% bigger than it actually is and that kind of misunderstanding your market is deadly in the long run.

[@miritom5747]

Make sense .. actually they helped Sony over the last 2 years a lot with final fantasy as exclusives(transitional period for playstation) + helldiver , stellar blade, even rise of the ronin wasn't bad ... I guess sony has 1 or 2 3rd party excl games for the end of this year and in 2025 it's studios will start to support the ps5 pro release.

[@darinjohnson7176]

They want to blame a marketshare problem, we aren't tslking about their major products not being very good and their tone deaf response to their fans.

[@JudeDefensor]

Looking at FF7: Remake's numbers, seems like FF7: Rebirth's sales didn't hit the mark for Square not really because it isn't on Xbox or PC, but more because it didn't also still come out on PS4.

[@splinterborn]

Forced Console paywall. Fanboys still defend this sh*t

[@mmichal]

If FFXVII and the VII games came on PC/Steam along with the PS5 the games would have sold double for sure. I know so many PC gamers who wanted to play VIIRebirth for example but saw the "performance mode" on PS5 and were like "I'll wait" >_> I think Sony will still tempt SE with money to keep "exclusivity" off other consoles tho

[@af4396]

FF16 was incredible, one of my favorite games of all time (and I'm saying that as someone who was born the year DOOM released). BUT, I never played an FF game before that, and the only reason I picked up 16 was because of the marketing material, NOT because it was called FF16. If it had a totally different, simple name (like... The Fallen, as an example) THAT would probably have peaked my interest more than "Final Fantasy XX." Regardless, I'm happy I chose to pick it up, but I almost didn't and I'm sure a ton of people didn't because of the name and assumptions, especially since a lot of FF games are also childish and weird af. This game was NOT, this game was absolutely insane and mature, funny and dark.

[@jjsavior]

I mean they need to, so I'm glad they found a way to keep existing rather than shutting down.

[@noamias4897]

Square Enix stopped making Sony exclusives and suddenly that guy wasn’t allowed to sit on buses anymore

[@schikey2076]

FINALLY!... it doesnt make sense for THIRD PARTY developers and publishers (especially AAA ones of all things) to make exclusive deals if budget constraints wasnt a thing for them... they should just focus on getting their software available to alot of platforms as possible instead of worrying which platform their software sells best, or be taking some exclusivity deal missing out on other platforms.

[@reed3863]

Imagine locking out fans from major releases while decent modern PCs in this day and age can run their games just fine, and wonder why sales aren't high. And final fantasy 7 universe has been milked through and through over the decades. The first part of the whole remake, titled remake(while ironically not being a complete remake), is like a window into how square enix plans to take the direction on the new take on FF7..which some are new players or keen fans are okay with, while others don't fancy the ghosts thingy and square is just trying to shove sephiroth into players' faces as early and as much as possible..while still, and only, being in the first city in the whole game. A Triple A game price times three, while still trying to experiment on systems and well established stories. You gotta be dense to see how it'll not end well.

[@sadpaperface7159]

If it requires a PSN account, then it may as well be exclusive to that platform.

[@HH-hd7nd]

In my opinion this move by Square Enix doesn't reflect poorly on any specific corpo - it is just a consequence of rising costs. If you have to sell 3-5 times as many copies to break even than just 5 years ago there is only one conclusion: Attract more customers. And that cannot be done on any console alone. It could be done with PC exclusives (two reasons: 1. all games have a playable PC build anyway because that's where games are developed so no additional development costs and 2. the number of PC gamers is much higher than all consoles combined) but even that doesn't make much sense. It's of course way cheaper to go multiplatform with a game than developing entirely new games so this move makes perfect sense. And it is good for us gamers because more people can play the games.

[@BloodyyPenguin]

This is a good thing. As a PlayStation user all my life, games for all gamers is an exciting future. I want everyone to experience every game no matter the console choice.

[@Enes1967]

I really wanted to play ff7 rebirth but i didn't want to buy a ps5 just for that when i have a laptop with rtx 3080. So i watched all of the story on youtube and probably won't even buy it when it comes to pc.

[@bowen3716]

NFTs can be programmed so the creator gets a small percentage everytime the nft is sold, if company's get like 2 bucks everytime a digital game was sold maybe they could see it being worth while

[@user-vz8wz1ly1j]

Right the lore is like drinking sparkling water thinking it’s a bottle of coke

[@indigiomontoya8005]

Oh no! The company that wanted to commit to NFTs!? Why do we care in the wake of the Tango news?

[@lyudvig_]

Steam added a new family sharing and it is in beta. They are not going to remove it, they are making it much better than it used to be.

[@EJD339]

I’ll be curious how much Sony was paying them for exclusivity. It seems like final fantasy is losing popularity no matter what but I’d be happy to be proven wrong and then get a bigger fan base.

[@ericm5315]

I was thinking this about 8 years ago. Why on earth would they limit themselves to one console with super, super delayed ports to PC well after the game has lost relevancy as a new title. That's not really a good business decision.

[@marty0678]

If you just implement NFTs as a validation system and don't charge for any of them, the tech is a perfect way to fix things like Pokemon cloning and hacking in PvP.

[@noodles9345]

I understand why Sony wants exclusivity but from a developer standpoint, I don't see why they would agree. Unless Sony is paying out like a massive amount of money that is equal to double the sales of what they get on just PS5. It seems like many devs are making projections based on what they are dreaming of their sales being rather than what they realistically are. Maybe with FF7 Rebirth they forsaw the same sales as FF7 Remake. Which it seems to be on track to not make that same amount. But again to counteract that, just sell on all platforms and you are good to go. Works great with Capcom and Sega.

[@inuclearpickle8628]

Funding you forget how much it covers their development costs AAA games specifically cost a lot

[@richardwilliams5387]

If iTunes even sells music anymore. Uh...

[@ariannawhatrudoinghere]

12:01 🫠

[@blackwoodd]

I personally disagree with Final Fantasy not having much appeal to newer audiences, being completely new, I personally finished playing Remake last month and am 30 hours into Rebirth at the moment

[@shadowshoganyt3438]

i hope they make a parasite Eve remake, that will be cool

[@jonmartin9732]

Good should of done it ages ago

[@burretploof]

Honestly, for me it was just the price that made me wait before buying FF16. I'm not about to drop 80€ on any game. If the cost for making these games is too high, then they should make smaller, more cost-efficient games instead. I'm not kidding.

[@dimasta9385]

People didn’t read the article clearly. It’s not exclusivity that hurts Square Enix per se. It’s releasing a lot of shit that costed them absorbing huge amount of money and yes, pushing them to desperately increasing revenue which means going multi plat. It’s not going to solve problems though. Because except for a few projects like FF 16 and Ff 7 remake trilogy they were multiplat anyway with most of their releases. PC market unpredictable in terms of sales, some ip simply won’t sell well but yes, Xbox is dead, still it’s a good thing that they drop exclusivity thing. Ff7 will be still locked behind PlayStation tho, unless Sony changes terms. Which they may not because they have paid for 3rd party already. Only PC releases with a delay.

[@bolladragon]

If the general, casual gamer doesn’t know that each numbered FF title is a self-contained game, then SE really needs to get on repairing that marketing since the slow down of releases. No one really questioned that until they stopped annually releases with 13’s messy soft reboot mucking it up.

[@igamerflavor]

selling games as nft is stupid. what about dlc that are being release for the game, they wont be tied to the nft? you would have to buy the game as nft and than pay extra for the dlc. buying a game at a later point with all dlc´s ,as a complete edition or so, on sale is easier and cheaper. if you give devs/publisher one finger with nft they gonna want the whole hand at some point. there is no benefit for consumer with nft. stupid idea

[@zolleu4184]

Imagine that we could play the game in high fps without the spec limitations of the ps5. I couldn't bring myself to play the game untill the fix the blurry "performance mode" that drops the game's resolution to something like 680p. And no. Im not playing it on 30 fps on 2024, its not okay to accept mediocracy.

[@cokeweasel1064]

Part of it is that they keep trying to make the consoles small. It isn't even portable. So why focus so much on making it small? They limit the processing power the console could have by doing that. The PS4 got hot all the time because it had almost zero airflow.

[@jeremiahjones9940]

Jim Crow era gaming lol

[@archersterling6726]

Selling less copies gives less profits? Maybe I should be CEO

[@juggernaut6666]

This has me worried about the quality from now on though. Multi platform games always take a huge hit on performance.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

Really I don’t remember people complaining about Elden Ring

[@juggernaut6666]

@@fenrirsfolly92 it had problems at launch on PC people just overlooked it. There were alot of people that had massive framerate drop problems with the tree sentinel. And from software has always had the worst online system of any game ever made. Makes Nintendo network look flawless.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

@@juggernaut6666 really? cuz at the time I still had an Xbox One and never had any issues

[@juggernaut6666]

@@fenrirsfolly92 like I said it was a PC thing. at the start it had mixed reviews on steam the performance was so bad. But the game was exceptional and they fixed it so people didn't talk about it much.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

@@juggernaut6666 gotcha

[@RageRaccoon]

NTF's could be useful if government's still did their jobs and actually enforced things that are good for consumers and not business

[@otherprisma7354]

Probably for the best. They just really need to stop spending way too much money on other stuff.

[@christonchev9762]

they should blame only themselfs cause i doubt it that Sony payed them the amount of $$$ the game cost and then not only u are selling less copies seens its an Exclusive to a single platform but u also lose users on the other 2 platforms(PC/Xbox) and even if they release those games later on those 2 platforms ppl on those platforms would have lost intrest and then u release FF 18/19/20 on all platforms but ppl won't buy them (esp on PC/Xbox) cause they haven't played the previous ones and when they see a 60$/70$ on a 3-4 y old game while a game like Black Myth is out day one what do u think ppls will buy 1st?

[@jeidenlovell5558]

i think nfts could work in music

[@cokeweasel1064]

How? I can copy literally anything that's digital. It won't work for anything l.

[@BrainsAndBeats_]

@@cokeweasel1064 Check out avenged sevenfold. They tie merch discounts to a free NFT that logs your merch and ticket purchases into a point system. As you attend shows and buy merch, you rank up in tiers that can range from 15-50% of merch. Top level if you attend a lot of shows is a meet & greet with the band. A really neat implementation of blockchain technology with no direct cost. Just have to have a NFT wallet. It’s the ONLY use case I see NFTs having.

[@PytorDukiv]

To be fair to PlayStation, SquareEnix has released many bad mulitplatform games and there overall catalogue of releases is extremely weak. If they want better profits they need to make better games, having their ONE good game go mulitplatform isn't going to save them. Same thing with Xbox.

[@MarwinO3]

I see this as a complete win. 😮

[@keflas3842]

This is what happens when you let another company dictate how you run your business they only person they should be listening to is financial advisors and consumers not a competitor who has basically owned you without owning you. This is a great example of letting stupid people have responsibility they dont wanna account for their own choices. Oh and luke you just compared capcom to square enix and not knowing their audience well thats hilarious considering that was why capcom was going bankrupt till they got saved by microsoft they were forced by financial problems to learn to run their business and adapt to changing times they are setting themselves up for failure once again through dei and "western" translations let them all sit in their own fires they created id sooner see the industry burn down and be reborn then care of anything any company is doing at all atm.

[@godsoloved24]

I mean, Remake came to PC, why isn't Rebirth on PC?

[@gloss975]

soon hopefully

[@gloss975]

soon hopefully

[@ArdentSnow]

Remake wasn't on PC til a year and a half later.

[@elhazthorn918]

Almost like artificial exclusivity was a bad idea.

[@saintlugia]

Exclusives don't hurt sales not appealing to the customers does. Nintendo has 8 games that sold over 20 million copies it's about making games gamers want.

[@dychostarr]

And how much more could be sold if on pc or across the board? I agree with your comment to a degree, but not everyone owns a switch but would have played some games. Nintendo also just MUCH smarter about how much money goes into games for better returns. Something that says alot about the industry that caves each time they sell a ungodly amount of games but simply fail to not throw money away.

[@saintlugia]

​@dychostarr if nintendo was on more platforms it deincentivises the need for third party games mean nintendo might lose 3rd party games and the free 30% they get from games. I think Sony and Ms becoming more open will hurt them more in the long run because if they don't need a certain box to play a game they might lose games they otherwise would have gotten

[@dychostarr]

@@saintlugia I suppose so, I still think the biggest issue the industry faces with losses is simply...overestimation of the market and over paying hoping it would translate into results. Again, Nintendo has such a advantage here since they know they are one console so they spend appropriately. But I won't deny that you aren't exactly wrong in your thought. I do think games going multiplatform is a net positive (for Square at least, if at the least of least it's more pro consumer in the end). For Square I think it's the right thing if they won't hold back from spending the money as if it'll sell appropriately. They have a history of doing that and it's finally catching up to them. Idk, I always look at the history of these mistakes being more money spend being based on reality. But I can't refute your points fully and see where you are coming from. So thank you for the back and fourth. Time will tell and I do hope our games only benefit from better decisions in the end. Gave me food for thought tho.

[@FrostyMountain-wo3kl]

Nintendos model for games is genius. Their Catalog is so massive they could easily have an entire console of just exclusives alone and nobody would complain. Their games aren’t high risk yet they manage to make bangers each time, even their weakest games still end up profiting most of the time. I’d easily buy a Switch 2 over the next Xbox or PlayStation if they continue the Switch’s success and games catalog.

[@alvaroruiz3009]

Sony losing their exclusivity on the games that carried the ps5 generation is wild, its going to be hilarious watching sony struggle without their exclusivity

[@jackblades90]

that playstation fanboy coment was so bad it made my pc crash. xD

[@jawsofwar]

FF16 is barely an rpg imo and more of an action game. They are definitely trying hard to get a more broader audience. Feel this strategy never works though and ends up pleasing no one.

[@joshuameadows4922]

There is virtually zero "entry" point for Final Fantasy. None of the game are connected, they each have their own unique story with a new MC, even the gameplay often changes between titles. Quite literally, anyone can pick up a FF title and not he confused if they pay attention.

[@plannein]

Maybe they should stop numbering Final Fantasy releases.

[@rafaelgalindo4794]

Love how ponies think FF was their exclusive when FF actually started on Nintendi being THEIR exclusive in 1990 and even released on PC BEFORE (1994) going to ps1 in 1996 or 1997.

[@Things_n_Stuff]

Square Enix: announces it’ll go multi-platform Microsoft after their latest acquisition: 👀

[@kylewavey6206]

So they can close them down too?

[@KingAgniKai]

Fuck no I'd rather Sony/Nintendo buy them

[@GerardoPerez]

@@KingAgniKai Hell no! They already losing money with Sony as you can see. And locking games into a super outdated Nintendo console is even worse.

[@ThisisCitrus]

Games I would have bought if they were on PC: FF16, FF7Rebirth, Stellar Blade, Spiderman2. They are losing so much money. I know only 2 are SE, but exclusivity is bad for profit.

[@Muad_Dib51]

Not when you consider the fact that many buy PlayStation 5s just to play those exclusives

[@AVWUVU]

Seriously, I would've bought them all on PC day one if they were available.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

Yeah not really because of the eco system and how much money they make from consoles. The subscriptions alone will make up for lost game profit and people who buy consoles buy subscriptions. It’s better for business to have bragging rights that your console has exclusives and then bring it to PC YEARS later when it’s no longer a selling point.

[@kingsmerte3629]

But Stellar Blade, Spiderman, God of War, Dragon's Dogma, they all had profit while being exclusive. And Sony's benefits are good enough for them to do it that way. I think the problem is FF audience is on PC, not PS5

[@marioex497]

Square is in a weird spot with their games right now. They want to focus them more towards western audiences but at the same time make games that don’t appeal to them. In doing this, they are also alienating their Japanese fans because the games are clearly not targeted for them specifically. They need to just pick a lane and go all in in that direction

[@pracitus]

The era of exclusivity is coming to an end, at last there will be no console wars

[@filmnationstudios389]

First party games. Yes

[@KingAgniKai]

But exclusively matters for consoles.

[@filmnationstudios389]

@@KingAgniKai Not anymore

[@KingAgniKai]

@filmnationstudios389 Wrong. I bought a PS5 and Switch because of the exclusives. A good amount of 3rd party support is also needed. In addition to having physical games. PC, in contrast, doesn't get everything legally, and it's 99% digital. You don't own a single game on PC

[@EdeDizon]

This means very little without cross play

[@richardwilliams5387]

Square Ennix has insane expectations for game sales. Any other studio would be thrilled and they're on earnings calls crying about shortfalls.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

Yeah millions in losses sounds real thrilling doesn’t it?

[@richardwilliams5387]

@@fenrirsfolly92 I was specifically referring to the many games they release that do make money but not "enough".

[@richardwilliams5387]

@@fenrirsfolly92 It's well established they have unrealistic sales expectations.

[@fenrirsfolly92]

@@richardwilliams5387 maybe so but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re close to $140 million down

[@richardwilliams5387]

@@fenrirsfolly92 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FF 16 SPECIFICALLY but the long term situation!!!

[@rafaelgalindo4794]

In my case I WAS ahuge FF fan in the 90s and 2000s. With time I just got bored of the franchise. I could care less about FF these days. I wish SE would bring some old games like Vagrant Story or completely new IPS that doesnt look like indies.

[@Da1Rocky]

Gamers like magomed really make me ashamed to call myself a gamer

[@Comycboy06]

Need more money!! Make greater games! ;)

[@nkosistryder]

One thing that these companies don’t take into account is what I like to call PUP (Pick Up and Playability). Time is scarce because life is expensive so people need to work more for less these days. Having games you can pick up and play, progress, pause and then restart the process later on without having to follow too much information, tend to be more attractive. Remembering long story lines and having to invest lots of time for little progression just doesn’t work once you become an adult with responsibilities. This is why the Monster Hunter series works. It’s because each hunter is typically about 5-15 mins long and you can complete the game gradually over time. You can plan what you’ll hunt more of now and later, etc. The progress comes from acquiring materials, building and upgrading equipment then doing efficiency hunts to learn your play style or master defeating specific monsters. Final fantasy games unfortunately have a reputation for requiring too large an investment of time for little return in terms of progression.

[@danielsan9850]

Good, more people can finally experience how good Final Fantasy is. Just don't let Microsoft buy them or else they'll just shut Square Enix down. Too soon?🤣🤣🤣

[@user-js4rv5sp8w]

You know Luke is angry with this. How dare Xbox and Nintendo take away from the PS5. lol