Known for creating the Hitman franchise, as well as Freedom Fighters and Kane & Lynch, IO Interactive are veterans of the industry. As a subsidiary of Square Enix, the two have gone hand-in-hand since Edios Interactive (IO’s parent company) were bought out by Square in 2009.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
I hope IX is still on the cards
Just a straight up remake which they expand a little bit nothing over ambitious
If IX dosent happen then VI and VIII will never be thought of.
What are they doing? Sales are falling and the costs are out of control. Big releases need to be absolute sales home runs now, and Final Fantasy sales have stagnated.
Now we know why Square didn’t fall over themselves to remake the original FF7 all these years ago. It certainly wasn’t a license to print money, at least not with what the expectations were. Each of these full on remakes drains an enormous amount of company resources for a razor thin profit margin.
I'm waiting for them to release the complete edition bundle, but it's definitely on my list.
Not rocket science. Compare sales numbers, development cycles, and budgets to the previous gens. We are all collectively burning up the industry from the inside out. Expectations are ludicrously high now for every release and sales are dropping for even the most prestigious of series.
We used to be satisfied paying $50-60 for a game that took 1/100th the budget and staff to make. Now gamers feel cheated if they have to pay the same for a game that took 100x the budget. We may be reaching the end of the line for this model of gaming.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Oh I’m with you. What’s worse is they can say, “Well we tried to make this amazing game and spend all this money on, but not enough people showed an interest. So no more of these since we can’t take a hit like that.”
The industry is going to take a dramatic shift. Mark my words on this.
I think there is quite a large portion of individuals like myself who held out on buying it on PS5 because I can get it on PC eventually. To be able to mod the game and also have custom graphical settings to my liking
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
If someone posted this obvious troll comment about Sony, they would have been marked inappropriate and restricted.
But not anast because he is posting about Xbox and knows the site mods personally.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
Danish from eXputer: "The Witcher's upcoming sequel needs to overhaul the series' combat system if it wants to make a big splash among gamers."
after what we see ( 2015 - 2024 ) in dark souls 3, blood borne , sekiro , dragon's dogma 2 , rise of the Ronin combat they should really careful and bring very good combat in Witcher 4 this time
because that SE has the IP it probably means we won't see another HITMAN ever unless another team develops it but that won't be the same.
Here's hoping SE sells IO's IPs with them. Go on and sell Crystal Dynamics and Eidos while you're at it. Release them already.
SquareEnix sucks to the nth degree. Everything they've touched turns to s**t.
Well shit guess that puts season 2 of Hitman in jeopardy. I hope if IO interactive no longer have rights to the IP they at least create a Hitman spiritual successor in an episodic format.
I haven't picked up Hitman yet, mostly because of the episodic releases, so been waiting a bit for for the physical edition to hit 25-30 bucks.
That said, by all accounts, the new Hitman is a great game, and I'm looking forward to playing it, so this is disappointing news.
Neither Absolution or Hitman 2016 came close to being like Blood Money. Far too many crutches to fall back on, mechanics that once upon of time would have been called cheats, and apart from the visuals changing - the mechanics in most missions were the same. They keep trying to make what has always been a niche game into a blockbuster franchise, and it's never going to happen while they're trying to please two VERY polarising audiences.
At this point it's hard to care. Until it goes to a competent developer that improves upon Blood Money (rather than removing many features, adding episodic content etc) - then good riddance.