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@Lowdefal Ok, but I'm still certain the FFIX Remake will happen.

Best Final Fantasy.

A Remake is certain at this point. The Nvidia leak, Final Fantasy IX's 25th anniversary is getting more love than FFVII's 25 anniversary ever got and when FF14 got a lot of FFIX content Yoshida said there is a reason for that but "the reason is a secret". Plus when asked if FFIX Remake is being developed Yoshi-P never denied it.

Wanted also today that the third artwork is confirmation that Beatrix will be a permanent party member XD. I'm joking btw.

Gives a new Pac-Man platformer, Klonoa and Baten Kaitos game Bandai-Namco.

And port the Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster to PS5.

@Balaam_ I prefer Sonic Adventure over a any Mario game and Astro Bot.

This games need to come to the PS4/PS5, sadly Iizuka seems to make bad decisions after bad decisions. He also said that the Chao Garden can only exist with an Adventure game, which makes no sense in my opinion since even Sonic Advance 2 has a Chao Garden.

"Considering it is still perfectly possible to purchase physical games on the PS5, we’re not convinced the premise of this case has any real weight."

Not every game has a physical version though.

In Capcoms case there is no MegaMan Legacy Collection that is physical availabe here in Europe and Kunitsu-Gami is only available digitally on PS5.

Like a Dragon the Man who Erased his Name is digital only as well.

So the PS5 still allowing players to play games physically doesn't give them much of a defence when not all games can be played that way.

Pokémon got genders, Digimon got personalities.

@UncleByron If the characters in Clair Obscur had anime design, the game would have sold much less than it did.

Trees are part of the game's gameplay, so many players will notice more how they look.

AI should be avoided as much as possible, but the way how games now take a lot of time to make, speeding development up could also be preferable.

Still I prefer games to be 100 man made.

This does not mean Final Fantasy will come back to turn based, even though the chances have increased. It just indicates we will see more turn based games from them which could be from other of Square's RPGs.

Also keep in mind that FFVII being turn based does not mean FFVII will as well. The times where we took for granted what we knew would be in the next FF games are over.

Give me a Chrono Trigger Remake and more Chrono games and I can accept and ignore modern Final Fantasy's action combat, sticking to I to X.

Definitely buying this, lack of War of the Lions content doesn't bother me, I don't even care for Balthier. Was more sad with Chronodia not having been included in Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.

@Nepp67 While this made me assume to be the case for VII and VIII as well.

Final Fantasy IV the After Years does indicate that at least that the first 6 mainline games are set in the same universe.

And I didn't say FFIX is set in the same universe as the other games before.

I said FF games weren't different universes until IX, meaning the concept of different worlds started with IX.

Square did consider making IX a spin-off instead a mainline during development.

It's definitely a success, since it's a new IP and was out for less than a month. Plus it wasn't released on the Switch.

Every game that surpasses 1 million copies sold should be seen as a success no matter the hype. Over 10 million sales are a rarety and and not the norm. We shouldn't use them as a standard for success

I really hope their hardwork will pay off. I want this game to be a success.

@Questionable_Duck I would argue FFXVI had Naoki Yoshida's name attached to it. Without him, FFXVI might have sold less.

@somnambulance From what I read I doubt FFXVI sold 4 million copies by now.

I do believe that will change once the game releases on Switch 2 though.

@Questionable_Duck These 5 million day 1 sales were also because of the Versus XIII hype. XV disappointed a lot of people so much that they had no interest in XVI and didn't bought it.

@Nepp67 "considering FF is essentially a concept and every game is in its own universe. Doesnt even make any sense to have it be numbered."

Most Final Fantasy fans played the games when they were turn based and the concept part is not true, FF1-9 are more similar to each other than the games that came after.

FF didn't start to change the formula until FFX.

And FF games weren't different universes until IX, before FFIX all games were supposed to be set in the same world.

I agree though that from XI onwards the games shouldn't be numbered.

This are great numbers happy to see them being profitable. I wish they would slow down with the Yakuza/Like a Dragon releases. The most hardcore fans might be buying every game that was released in the last 5 years but for the average consumer, it's a bit too much to keep up which is most likely the reason why sales are slowing down.

I wish we would have gotten sales figures of other SEGA franchises like Sakura Wars or Valkyria Chronicles though.

Would also love how much Unicorn Overlord sold.

Also compared to FFXVI this sales are definitely a success since they are more niche than the Final Fantasy franchise and XVI's budget was much higher than any SEGA game released recently.

I say this again. Square Enix needs to lower the budget for the next FF games

There is only one game that met Square Enix's high expectations in recent years and that is a HD-2D Remake of Dragon Quest III.

I will definitely buy and play this. Can't wait.

Now that XBox is slowly phasing out from the console business that is now changing. The success of the Switch definitely made Sony notice Nintendo more, if they still didn't see them as competition Sony wouldn't send a survey to their consumers asking what they think about the Switch 2.

@Flaming_Kaiser Less quests are definitely needed and we need even less fetch quests. There needs to be quests that impact the backstory of the main characters... and they all have to be available before beating the story.
Airships should also come back and done right (FFXV was a disappointment in that regard).

@Slayer25c Let them say it looks like PS2 graphics. Critic does not equal poor sales. Stellar Blade was praised for playing like a PS2 game and it doesn't look nothing special graphics wise, yet it it's one of the most popular games right now.

Final Fantasy XIII is one of the most impressive games graphics wise on PS3 and I'm 100% sure that is one of the reasons why the game struggled gameplay wise.

There is only one game that exceeded Square's high expectations and that is a HD-2D Remake of Dragon Quest III and it's obvious why it did.

Instead of Final Fantasy, Square should give us a new Chrono game.

People (and Square Enix) blame PlayStation exclusivity on the "disappointing" sales, I blame the gameplay and the too high budget.

Too many fetch quests and the recent games are style over substance.

If modern Final Fantasy games were appealing to gamers they would be profitable, PC gamers are very patient, they can wait. Persona 5 Royal was released two years on PC after it was exclusively released on PS4, and it has more peak players than Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy XVI and there are more players playing P5R than VII Rebirth.

Stellar Blade, a new IP, has more peak players than any other Sony published game.

So PlayStation exclusivity is not the problem, the problem is how FF games are designed gameplay wise and that they are too expensive to develop.

Future Final Fantasy games need a lower budget.

On XBox, FF will never sell and SE should know this. It's simply not a franchise that appeals to the majority of them.

@Nakatomi_Uk It's funny, XBox fans were sharing Microsoft and Phil to successfully buy Activision and now they pay the price for XBox slowly phasing out from the console business and PlayStation players enjoying XBox games.

@HammerKirby3 Yeah definitely a decision that doesn't make sense.

@HammerKirby3 I'm aware, that's why I said it doesn't affect me, because I buy the classic games I want to play (again) instead to subscribe to PS Plus. But many don't have interest in doing so and want to play those games only once and might consider the Premium price too expensive, so those classic games will never be played by those people.

@PuppetMaster Yeah they wanted to be the Netflix of gaming and they wanted that the XBox One to be always connected to the internet. I'm glad that at the time they didn't get away with it, but I feel like in this days they would have.

@TruestoryYep I know how anti consumer Sony is. I remember in the PS3 days when Sony said they wanted their consumers to have two jobs to buy the system or locking classics PS games on PS Plus Premium even though it doesn't affect me because the classics I want I simply buy.

But I feel like if Sony was planning for us to pay for online they would also have done it for PS3.

It's like Mario Kart World costing 80€. Now other games will follow suit.

@Questionable_Duck Yeah, the moment Microsoft started caring more about the games they cared less about the console and decided to port their games to other systems.

@Questionable_Duck Maybe but there are other reasons why Microsoft wasn't a good competitor, they never truly cared about gaming.

@Questionable_Duck We don't know if Sony didn't start charging for online if Microsoft didn't do it first. The chances of Sony continuing too give us free online are 50%. And Nintendo charged us with with online because they saw Sony and Microsoft getting away with it. The only reason online is still free on PC is because PC players are not willing to pay for it.

If Microsoft didn't charge for Online or didn't get away with it we still could have gotten free online on PlayStation and Switch.

The Bleach: Soul Resurrección game is great and would be cool if Sony makes gives us more games based on Anime.

But they also have games with Anime art style that they could make more games: Wild Arms, Gravity Rush, Freedom Wars and even Alundra, are games that would be cool that would make a comeback. I think an anime for those franchises would help, just like Wild Arms got one.

XBox were a terrible competitor though. If it weren't for Microsoft we could have still gotten free online on PlayStation.

No Wild Arms 4 and 5, not interested.

I think Rewind sounded better than Revival, but it's just a name. Can't wait to have this game in my collection.

Btw I don't think there will be an updated version of P3R and P4R. I do think those will be the definitive editions.

The only games from Microsoft I'm interested to be ported to PlayStation are Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

From all the SEGA characters I want Blaze Fielding and Nahobino from Shin Megami Tensei.

In case of Blaze they probably would do the same what they did with Akira and Jacky in Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing and put her and Axel in the same car with Axel driving and Blaze being a passenger like in Outrun.

The Nahobino would be probably not be chosen in favour of the Demi-fiend of SMTIII.

This is the right mindset to have, but they shouldn't have announced the game so early if they aren't sure that if will get released.

@arsmolinarc Like Pokémon fans.

I'm glad that Episode Aigis is DLC so I can pretend it never happened. I hated it when I played it.

And for those who are saying that Atlus will release a new version just because they have done it in the past, don't count on it. Game Freak also used to release third versions of Pokémon games but stopped long ago.

If Atlus wanted to release a new version of Persona 3 Reload, Episode Aigis wouldn't have been DLC.

@wildcat_kickz That's exactly what I do, I simply don't agree with Yoshida that $70 or $80 for a game is a steal.

Oh, it's a steal Yoshida I agree, a steal from my wallet and bank account. No game is worth more than $50€ and I'm being generous.

Cancelling sequels to Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice because you wanted to focus only on PS4 makes no sense when Sony released Gravity Rush 2 on PS4 (which also deserved to be on the system). I like Freedom Wars more than Soul Sacrifice but both should have had sequels on PS4 just like Gravity Rush.

Fantastic news. Now I believe even more that we get remasters of 3, 4 and 5 and that Suikoden 6 will come.

Also would love Star Leap to come to consoles and PC without the Gacha mechanic, but the latter is less likely unfortunately.

Give me a Chrono Trigger remaster and new Chrono games and I'll be happy.

And I don't want Square Enix to be bought by anyone. I want them to keep their independence.

I actually dig Wolf's new design.

Unfortunately the PS5 can't read CDs and DVDs so true backwards compatibility is not possible and I don't expect it to happen with the PS6.

It's really a shame that many refuse to play retro games just being the graphics. Many old games are more worth to be played than many new ones.

I know it's not in their control, but I really wish Sony would release Wild Arms 4 and 5 to newer systems. Playing them on the PS5 would be awesome.

Happy to see Square's magnum opus is getting a Remake. Will buy it day one.