@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.

@UltimateOtaku91 Clair Obscur's battle system is still true turn based combat. Turn based combat should be allowed to evolve instead being the same thing forever.

@Matroska The ATB system from FF4 to 9 is still turn based. It's just a different one were the characters are waiting longer for there turns. There are turn based JRPGs were the enemies and bosses attack more than once and you can play FF4 to 9in wait mode.

Honestly, Square Enix should make a new turn based mainline Final Fantasy, just to see if Action Combat makes more money.

Personally, I always found it ridiculous that Square Enix decided to change the core gameplay of the games during the Franchise's prime. The franchise wasn't in a situation like Persona, where Atlus had to change the gameplay of Persona 3 because Person a 1 and 2 (both games) weren't selling.

The series was doing fine and they had to screw up by changing the gameplay just for the sake of change.

If it doesn't need a constant internet connection I buy it. Playing PS4/PS5 games on the go would be awesome. The only thing that would worry me right now is the price.

"Responding to the backlash on forum ResetEra, Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia said he’s “genuinely shocked people are somehow upset with the comparison to the PS4”."

I'm not shocked. This is what I expect from any type of fanboys who don't like their consoles to be seen as worse performing than other systems even if that's true

Shame on you for not putting Sonic X Shadow Generations on the list.

Doug Bowser and Don Mattrick would be great friends.

Saying this is a complete disrespect to their consumers even if you would reduce the price. People want the newest thing.

Also people always use inflation to excuse the price increase but what they forget is that salaries barely increase with it too.

It would be nice if this comes to PlayStation.

Also I would like a collection of the SEGA Illusion games.

@dBackLash "Nintendo has always been a company that thrives when it's struggling imo, they always seem to mess things up after a huge succes."

Sounds like Sony with PlayStation

There is no way I would pay that much for a game and not even 90€.

No game is worth that money no matter how good it is.

The only Microsoft owned games I'm interested to play on PlayStation (and only if I'm not forced to make an XBox account) are Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and Blinx . Anything else I don't care.

I have babysitted in the past and kids many times asked their parents to come to my house to play on my PlayStation so I do think that kids still want consoles.

As long that they get a new life and if it improves the chances of sequels of Freedom Wars, Gravity Rush and especially Wild Arms I'm totally fine with it.

A shame SEGA isn't in that list, they released great games last year.

While Sony is a Japanese company, their games are mostly Western and their gaming division is in California, so I struggle a bit to consider them part that list, but I guess Astro Bot is Sony's biggest success in the PS5 era.

@rpg2000 @PuppetMaster I didn't say Square Enix will stop doing partnerships with Sony, I said they will do less. Obviously they still want to sell on PlayStation but since they want to go a multiplatform approach Square Enix will have to focus on other platforms more as well.

"but we’d expect PlayStation to continue its partnership with Final Fantasy, and push whatever else is coming out hard."

I don't think so.

I do believe Square Enix Will want people to stop see Final Fantasy synonyms to PlayStation and therefore will do less partnerships with Sony now.

Also about the game selling well or not, Square Enix confirmed that FF16 was mostly played by newcomers so most old Final Fantasy fans are distancing themselves from the franchise, which obviously affects the sells.

Persona 4 Rewind.

This is great. Persona 4 is a fantastic game but with the success of Persona 3 Reload it's inevitable. They obviously will also make the game with Persona 5 art style to keep it consistent with 3 and 5.

I like Persona 3 Reload much more than vanilla Persona 3 so I welcome a Persona 4 Remake.

And Persona 1 and 2 needs to happen, but I don't know if they Remake faithfully or will Reimagine the game to give us Social links.

Also not related. Would be cool if you guys would do an article about the Sonic timeline that was recently released.

@8bit4Life "Never leaving the party"
I have doubts unless you never finished FF7

I said this before in this site but I say this again

Who was the one who came back to Cloud after he fought Rufus in the Shinra Headquarters to save his life?

Who is the one who tried and succeeded to cure Cloud from his confusion and depression?

Who was the only one who stayed with Cloud in the Highwind and spent the night with him?

Tifa is that girlfriend that you can always trust.

Aerith is that girl who is nice to you but has a crush on someone else

Still have to play a Monster Hunter game but I want to

I wish SEGA would give us a Skies of Arcadia Remake and a new game.

Can't wait to have my copy of this game. I simply love this games.