While Sony may not have major first-party games on the way any time soon, there are still big PS5 exclusives set to launch in the near future.
A former Square Enix executive has shed light on sales expectations and budget realities of the Final Fantasy series.
Yea, I love how so many on here did simple math like 3mill x $70 = they made a profit.
When that’s not even close to how this works.
They take the years spent and equate the ROI to the sum % of stock prices during the years of development to do a baseline ROI and then you have the 30% taken out of every sale on a platform EXCEPT for Steam, which is 12%.
Nobody factors in the cost for production of physical media, the cost of advertising, marketing, and the loss from discounts/used game sales and they wonder why selling 3 mill for FF16 isn’t profitable. Or they don’t understand amortization and how games are supposed to generate profit over a long period of time.
Instead, they say Square makes unreasonable expectations for a game to sell when it’s the reality of the cost of AAA development and ROI. I wish I could go back and reply to comments where people jumped down my throat telling me FF16 and FF7 Rebirth were financially successful and I had no idea what I’m talking about.
This honestly does not bode well for the final part of the FF7 series. It often makes me wonder why they ever bothered to remake it at all if this is the thanks they get for making one of the greatest RPGs to exist. All that hooting and hollering at conventions for nothing.
They should have released a PC version too. And no not EGS but Steam and maybe someday GOG
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Up's Stellar Blade has now been added as a reward for PlayStation Stars members.
These never seem to justify the rewards. You'd be better off earning the stars and redeeming them for the store credit. Then using that store credit towards the game like Stellar Blade. You would get further with your points that way and spend less of them
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Up's Stellar Blade has received two brand new surprise outfits. Here's how you can unlock them.
Brand new outfits? Aren't they the ones that were censored? Fans got up in arms about when the devs changed them a little bit? Well whatever the case, they should never have been censored in the first place. Glad the "original outfits" are back, so it seems. I personally don't care about the outfits per se, but I do care about censorship in the games industry and I hate it when it happens.
How long do y'all reckon before the inevitable Nier crossover outfits make their way onto Eve? I love this game.
And that's the difference between Sony and MS.
When MS had that god awful year and 7 month stretch this generation where they knew they had nothing coming, they were unwilling to compensate that by securing 3rd party deal to ensure they looked after us gamers and instead gave me no reason to turn on my xsx
Sony on the other hand, sees the stretch ahead of time and made sure even if weren't playing 1st party exclusives that they made sure to secure big 3rd exclusives to ensure Sony gamers had something more than the competition to enjoy that could only be played on the platform.
MS won't have that issue again with all ots studios now but still just shows how much smarter Sony is.
Sony is smarter with there studios unlike Microsoft rn.
Yeah, I'm sure Sony wants to get out more 1st party games, but I'm kinda stacked right now with their Second and Third party games. This month for me has been Gran Blue Fantasy, Helldivers 2 and I will be getting FF7: Rebirth. I will be trying Rise of Ronin in March and Stellar Blade in April. Just will those game alone, I should be pretty busy until June easily.
Crazy strong first half of the year, bit worried about the second half though...