Final Fantasy Titles Do Better On PSP Than DS

Kigmal - 358 days 10 hours ago

There are better RPG's on the DS then Final Fantasy. There are no better RPG's then Final Fantasy on the PSP.

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AllseeingEye - 358 days 10 hours ago

is better on the psp then any ff so far.

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Death - 358 days 9 hours ago

They excluded antire continents and many games to come up with a conclusion that supports their opinion. WHy bother including percentages of games released and then excluded many of these games to draw a conclusion? In order to be accurate, they would need to include all games released on both platforms in all regions they were released. They would also need to factor in development costs and residuals given to each platform holder.

It would be bad enough for this article to be a waste of bandwidth, but it is also misleading and nothing more than flamebait to get PSP owners in an uproar.

-Death

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Solbadguy - 358 days 9 hours ago

remake FF6 for the PSP already.

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BrianC6234 - 358 days 9 hours ago

It's time for Square Enix to start supporting Sony platforms more. The PSP would probably sell even better if more developers would make great games for it. So release more great PSP games Squre Enix.

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baum - 358 days 8 hours ago

That's why you see more support. It's not about attach rates, revenue, sales amounts, it's all about the bottom-line: Profit.

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4pocalyps3 - 358 days 7 hours ago

read this fu*king article!

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Cheeseknight28 - 358 days 6 hours ago

Well, let's compare the Final Fantasys...

PSP:
-Final Fantasy Tactics (Lazy port of a great game with added cutscenes still makes a good game)
-Crisis Core (Probably one of the best games I've ever played on a handheld)
-Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Fan service to the extreme)

vs.

DS:
-Final Fantasy III (Interesting game, but it's not really special compared to the others)
-Final Fantasy IV (Didn't buy it. I already own all the older games, and saw no need to buy yet another "enhanced version")
-Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Great game, but probably didn't sell well because it is still not as mature as the original)
-Revenant Wings (FFXII was not that great so this one didn't really have a reputation to back it up like Crisis Core, and I doubt many PS2 owners rushed out to buy a sequel on a completely different console)
-Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (While I'm sure it was a great game, the graphics were undoubtedly a turnoff for many.

It's fairly obvious why the PSP titles sell better, the platform just gets the superior games. Though I'm sure many people will challenge this, the PSP also doesn't get as many great games so PSP owners buy just about every great game that comes along.

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cyrus228 - 358 days 6 hours ago

valkyrie profile, star ocean 1 and 2 are awsome aswell!!!!! and the tales games

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Allowen - 357 days 23 hours ago

OMFG, FF games are so super boring these days......
The last cool FF game I played was FF7 and the last one FF12 was super boring, including the battle system that we had to pause and switch armor and weapons every minute... and that was action rpg, LOL.

What I have on all that is that every one is making rpgs games having the last FFs as a model.
Come on, make more rpgs like Disgaea, Eternal Sonata, Valkyria Chronicles.... full motion videos all the time is boring... I want to interact more with the rpgs and FF gaems are not offering it to me anymore.

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360 Wii PS3 Yup - 357 days 19 hours ago

DS owners have a bigger selection of quality RPG 's. With Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Children of Mana, The World Ends With You, Soma Bringer (Great Japanese Import), and Chrono Trigger (which stops the hell out of anything the PSP has) DS owners just have more quality JRPG's

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PS360WII - 357 days 15 hours ago

While I'm late to the party and most of the disagree'ers don't know any better the first post is correct. DS just has the greater supply of amazing RPGs.

While the PSP has some grand RPGs it's nothing close to the list the DS has. Naturally those who sway towards Sony will never take that fact to be true it still is.

Now the next thing is as baum said production cost. The PSP games take more money to make. That should be apparent due to the greater graphics and all that so while the PSP sells more the DS doesn't need to sell that many to still make a good profit.

Second you would have to compare sales of Crisis Core with Dragon Quest IX in order to get a real look at sales because one is FF7 and the other is DQ. You can't say well Crisis Core sold more the The World Ends With You because one is a new IP and the other is what fans of FF7 wanted forever. Then take the remake/port of Tactics to the remake/port of FFIV.

So cost of make vs amount made probably still favors DS and the quality of titles also need to be weighed. While SE has made a good lot of games for DS most have been new IP's or remakes with a new version of a big franchise coming down the road while the PSP has been getting the bigger fan service ones.

PSP owners should still be happy that SE is giving us the bigger named titled but as DS owners we can be happy that they are giving us the new and improved IPs :) but as making RPGs for the DS they have more competition getting the names out there because people buy DS games while more just steal PSP games so the bigger titles need to go to PSP in order to get the sales.

No question about it the DS does have the bigger list of RPGs that are must plays. Once again the PSP has some but not like the DS has and still gets.

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Nugundam0079 - 357 days 11 hours ago

Phantasy Star ZERO for the DS? that game actually has online unlike the Universe portable.I keep seeing Gurumin and Monster, ETC on here and last I checked, those weren't published by square.So why are we talking about them.
The topic states sales of Square Enix titles on both platforms.But if you guys want to talk RPG's across both systems then look at this. The PSP has some great titles..but those are few and far between(that will soon change in 09).
I primarily bought my psp to play such titles and though I have a decent collection on it, that collection pales to the collection of DS role playing games I have to choose from. Basically what im saying is PSP RPG's=Great titles, few to choose DS RPG=A larger selection, more games to choose from.

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topgeareasy - 358 days 10 hours ago

DS = Donkey S**t

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360 Wii PS3 Yup - 357 days 15 hours ago

Enough with the sh!ty PS2 ports and garbage Grand Theft Auto crap. DS has plenty of games Chrono Trigger, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Legend of Zelda PH, Mario Kart, Dragon Ball Z Origins, and lets not forget the handheld game of the year The World Ends With You. DS = Innovation. PSP = Scaled down PS2 games.

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