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Final Fantasy 16 Sony Exclusive Rumor 👀

Danjin44

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If this end up being true.........Oh boy
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GRIEVEZ

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StormCell said:
Ehhhh, it was exclusive to Sony for PS1 and PS2.

Of course, the last quality FF IMO was FFX, so... they can do whatever they want with the series. Frankly, Bravely is where it's at, now.
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The last great one... for me was FFIX...

FFX really didnt hit the spot for me... It was too straightforward for my taste...

I did like FFXII's battle system though
 
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Mister Wolf

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Vawn said:
They got timed exclusives for Series X like The Medium. There's just fewer opportunities not being in a position of power.

There's likely to be a much larger PS5 install base, so it makes sense companies would rather make a deal with Sony over Xbox. They'd have to have a huge Xbox attach rate to make any deal worthwhile - a feat hard for a Japanese RPG.
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It's all fair in war.
 
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loktaiextatus

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MrFunSocks said:
Thanks for being so consumer friendly Sony!
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This "consumer friendly" is language made up by the confused people with buyers remorse. You DONT have a right to play all software.
Mac users didnt have some right to all the software on PC and it wasnt anti-consumer not to port the software to a platform that wasnt
profitable. If a company wants to create a game - and actually utilize the hardware they either need to dedicate a ton more time or money
or create something that is only on that hardware. You dont buy a Playstation then cry over whats on XBOX or buy a PC and cry over
whats on playstation or buy a Switch and cry over whats on PC. Is Steam anti-consumer because it doesnt mandate all its games are
playable on every single PC made since 2005? No.... thats insane sounding.

I know it comes off as a rant, but its getting old, the entitled idea that people are being locked away from software.
You're only as locked away from software as you are locked away from buying the machine that runs it.

Its like saying Toyota Corollas are locked away from having the interior out of an Audi or the engine out of a Corvette.
Buy what has the things you want and as a consumer nothing more is promised.
 
Arkam

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Would not be too surprised by this. FF7R sold great on PS4 and look at the sales on FF15, sold what 4-1 PS vs X1?
 
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loktaiextatus

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This is going to sound a little far-out but .... stay with me for a moment.

This insider says they dont know where FF16 went- and supposedly that FF16 was supposed to be at the June event but square DID show something for PS5
with a PROJECT name title. I want to point out what others noticed- a
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very similar looking world to FF15.

Possibly they kept the fact that its an FF game secret- Or it changed to being a stand-alone new IP, or maybe this isnt the FF game in question and just has the same art design?
 
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unintelligent orange

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Birdo said:
Probably just timed like FFVII Remake.

Not even Sony would be scumbag enough to have a FF game 100% exclusive.
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Square Enix historically hasnt really liked to do full on exclusivity deals for their games, in the vast majority of cases. Especially today, they seem to be all for making more money, so I doubt they would do anything more than a timed exclusivity deal, especially for Final Fantasy.
 
SoraNoKuni

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FFXV Was decent but not great, still a large scale FF with great graphics soundtrack and general production values.
Of course this could hurt XBOX a lot, and it will.

KH3 was actually very decent as well, FFVIIR was great too, nier too.
In general SE is on a roll, as well a lot of other Japanese based devs.

Reading that guy's last minute prediction is really promising, looking forward..
 
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Imagine getting excited about a new mainline FF announcement after the last decade. Unless the put the announcement out along with a firm release date, I will simply not give a shit.
 
MasterCornholio

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loktaiextatus said:
This "consumer friendly" is language made up by the confused people with buyers remorse. You DONT have a right to play all software.
Mac users didnt have some right to all the software on PC and it wasnt anti-consumer not to port the software to a platform that wasnt
profitable. If a company wants to create a game - and actually utilize the hardware they either need to dedicate a ton more time or money
or create something that is only on that hardware. You dont buy a Playstation then cry over whats on XBOX or buy a PC and cry over
whats on playstation or buy a Switch and cry over whats on PC. Is Steam anti-consumer because it doesnt mandate all its games are
playable on every single PC made since 2005? No.... thats insane sounding.

I know it comes off as a rant, but its getting old, the entitled idea that people are being locked away from software.
You're only as locked away from software as you are locked away from buying the machine that runs it.

Its like saying Toyota Corollas are locked away from having the interior out of an Audi or the engine out of a Corvette.
Buy what has the things you want and as a consumer nothing more is promised.
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If there's something alot of people won't admit is that this is all part of competition. This is how they compete for your hard earned cash. Each company may do it in different but it's all part of being competitive.

I'm sure if it becomes a huge issue there are competition laws in place that will stop either from establishing a monopoly or forcing consumers to adopt a product.
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best

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Thicc Enigma said:
Companies can always use a little extra cash

www.siliconera.com

Square Enix Reports Big Losses From Subsidiaries Tokyo RPG Factory and Studio Istolia

Square Enix reported big losses from subsidiary companies, Tokyo RPG Factory and Studio Istolia, in its latest financial results.
www.siliconera.com www.siliconera.com

Money is money and money talks.
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That's true. Still doesn't necessarily make it "feel" better to do, though.

MasterCornholio said:
I'm curious to see how the competition reacts to this. They just have known about this for a while.
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Have wondered that as well. This could be in reaction to something MS has going with the WB Games deal (a deal I don't think is really worth it tbh, would be better if they purchased license rights for a few DC characters and ignored adding yet more studios...unless they're named Asobo ;), or some other major exclusive MS's also moneyhatted but hasn't been revealed yet.

If it's in reaction, then this practice really will play out throughout the generation and even affects PC and Nintendo gamers, too. It will get ugly on both sides.

fermcr said:
Yes, I was around. Real shitstorm... but Microsoft should have continued that route. There will always be a vocal minority that you simply have to ignore.
Take the example of Epic store exclusives. At the beginning people started bitchin left and right, but as time goes by, they eventually move on and Epic continues with it's store exclusives.
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Two possible reasons they stopped. One being because Phil is probably not "that" type of aggressive business guy. The more likely reason though because the Xbox division probably didn't have the allocated funds to pursue it much further. IIRC
Satya scaled back a lot of funding to various MS divisions during the '14 - '16 period and Spencer had to also convince them to keep the Xbox division going and invest in it seriously again.

So during that phase they probably had little budget to utilize on multiple Rise of Tomb Raider-style deals, hence pick-and-choose. By the time they did get that big funding again (outside of things like the One S and One X development/release) they probably decided it was better to go for purchasing talent to bring in-house than relying on yet more timed 3rd-party exclusive deals...

...until they'd purchased almost all the studio they'd want, then they would of course go back to balancing in that moneyhatting game, as we saw at the showcase :LOL: . The Yakuza deal in particular is kind of ridiculous, I just think this SpiderMan stuff (and possibly FF16 if that's true) blew up more because those are bigger IP in general.

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Kerotan

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I hope to god this is true. Full console exclusive then bring it to pc a year later. Going by the sales in different regions xbox at best accounted for only 15% of ff15 sales at launch.

Easy money hat and SE would happily ff the small xbox share in return for marketing funds and partial development funds. Xbox is even less relevant now then when ff15 launched so they ain't losing much.

But yeah this would be another huge exclusive for Sony. Hope its true, I want the ps5 to thrive.
 
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PSNplanetcolony

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I loved FF7, FF8, FFXII and FF13....haven't played XV or the remake yet. I wouldn't be surprised if this is true as others have stated Square has always been quite cozy with Sony.
 
MasterCornholio

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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
Have wondered that as well. This could be in reaction to something MS has going with the WB Games deal (a deal I don't think is really worth it tbh, would be better if they purchased license rights for a few DC characters and ignored adding yet more studios...unless they're named Asobo ;), or some other major exclusive MS's also moneyhatted but hasn't been revealed yet.

If it's in reaction, then this practice really will play out throughout the generation and even affects PC and Nintendo gamers, too. It will get ugly on both sides
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It's all part of competition I'm afraid. If they really care about selling a product they will make moves that might make some consumers angry.

I know there's this talk of his Microsoft doesn't see Sony as a competitor but im pretty sure Sony themselves don't feel the same about Microsoft.

The best thing they can do is compete fiercely with each other. It might not look good for consumers in the short term but it the long term it might be positive for us.
 
Rhazer Fusion

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Nikana said:
FF15 would have to of bombed on bone for this to happen. Never looked into the sales of that game. Obviously it would be skewed towards PlayStation as that's where most people associate it but Enix has supported Xbox more than ever recently, especially with GP.
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I think FF15 sold ok on XBox, but I’m pretty sure it sold much better on PS4 though. Sony did get FF7: Remake exclusive for a year. I highly doubt they have full exclusivity to FF16 though. Maybe, maybe timed exclusive for like 6 months to at most a year like FF7. It could even be exclusives features for the PS5 version.
 
KingT731

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Rhazer Fusion said:
I think FF15 sold ok on XBox, but I’m pretty sure it sold much better on PS4 though. Sony did get FF7: Remake exclusive for a year. I highly doubt they have full exclusivity to FF16 though. Maybe, maybe timed exclusive for like 6 months to at most a year like FF7. It could even be exclusives features for the PS5 version.
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Idk if OK would be correct here. The split around launch was like 75-80% PS4...KH3 has a similar split as well.
 
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Fbh

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Meh, timed exclusives suck.

I'd much prefer if Sony took the money they spent on this and all other shitty timed exclusives and used it to make a cool new JRPG IP.

Not to mention that if XVI is anything like XV, the first 1-2 years are going to be the unofficial early access period anyway
 
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MrFunSocks

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Unknown? said:
They didn't moneyhat EA. EA games that were console exclusive on PS1 like NFS were on every system known to man... except the Dreamcast.
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And why weren't they on the dreamcast?

lol @ "every system known to man" when you know very well there was only the PS2, dreamcast, and later gamecube. So Sony paid to keep those EA games off the dreamcast, meaning they were exclusive to PS2.

loktaiextatus said:
This "consumer friendly" is language made up by the confused people with buyers remorse. You DONT have a right to play all software.
Mac users didnt have some right to all the software on PC and it wasnt anti-consumer not to port the software to a platform that wasnt
profitable. If a company wants to create a game - and actually utilize the hardware they either need to dedicate a ton more time or money
or create something that is only on that hardware. You dont buy a Playstation then cry over whats on XBOX or buy a PC and cry over
whats on playstation or buy a Switch and cry over whats on PC. Is Steam anti-consumer because it doesnt mandate all its games are
playable on every single PC made since 2005? No.... thats insane sounding.

I know it comes off as a rant, but its getting old, the entitled idea that people are being locked away from software.
You're only as locked away from software as you are locked away from buying the machine that runs it.

Its like saying Toyota Corollas are locked away from having the interior out of an Audi or the engine out of a Corvette.
Buy what has the things you want and as a consumer nothing more is promised.
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FFXVI is being kept from another console that it otherwise would absolutely release on because sony paid money (if this rumour is true). That is the definition of anti-consumer. They are literally stopping people from being able to play a game they otherwise would have been able to.
 
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KingT731

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MrFunSocks said:
And why weren't they on the dreamcast?

lol @ "every system known to man" when you know very well there was only the PS2, dreamcast, and later gamecube. So Sony paid to keep those EA games off the dreamcast, meaning they were exclusive to PS2.



FFXVI is being kept from another console that it otherwise would absolutely release on because sony paid money (if this rumour is true). That is the definition of anti-consumer. They are literally stopping people from being able to play a game they otherwise would have been able to.
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This actually had nothing to do with Sony. This was due to SEGA making their own sports games and EA wanting to release them exclusively.

Edit: This also lead to EA buying the exclusive NFL rights after SEGA went 3rd party which effectively killed the NFL 2K series.
 
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SantaC

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with the current state of Final Fantasy, I wouldnt miss it. I thought FF7r was ok, but very overhyped. Slap RandomJoe on that games title and no one would talk about it.
 
Unknown?

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MrFunSocks said:
And why weren't they on the dreamcast?

lol @ "every system known to man" when you know very well there was only the PS2, dreamcast, and later gamecube. So Sony paid to keep those EA games off the dreamcast, meaning they were exclusive to PS2.



FFXVI is being kept from another console that it otherwise would absolutely release on because sony paid money (if this rumour is true). That is the definition of anti-consumer. They are literally stopping people from being able to play a game they otherwise would have been able to.
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They weren't on DC because they didn't trust Sega after multiple failures. It had nothing to do with Sony or they'd have also paid them to stay off of GC and Xbox.
 
Strider Highwind

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I thought the release of FFXV and then the porting of all the old FF's to PC and Xbox were a sign of Square embracing the idea of launching on multiple platforms going forward? Either way im getting it, just could've swore thats why they were doing that
 
thelastword

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In Jim Ryan I trust......Funny how even some Sony fans didn't believe in him.......As for FF16, I will say that some games need exclusive hardware to shine. There's nothing I'd like to see more than Square take advantage of one piece of hardware like they used to back in the day.....PS5's tech is unique enough to deliver some pretty insane results if Square is dedicated to it......
 
Thicc Enigma

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loktaiextatus said:
This "consumer friendly" is language made up by the confused people with buyers remorse. You DONT have a right to play all software.
Mac users didnt have some right to all the software on PC and it wasnt anti-consumer not to port the software to a platform that wasnt
profitable. If a company wants to create a game - and actually utilize the hardware they either need to dedicate a ton more time or money
or create something that is only on that hardware. You dont buy a Playstation then cry over whats on XBOX or buy a PC and cry over
whats on playstation or buy a Switch and cry over whats on PC. Is Steam anti-consumer because it doesnt mandate all its games are
playable on every single PC made since 2005? No.... thats insane sounding.

I know it comes off as a rant, but its getting old, the entitled idea that people are being locked away from software.
You're only as locked away from software as you are locked away from buying the machine that runs it.

Its like saying Toyota Corollas are locked away from having the interior out of an Audi or the engine out of a Corvette.
Buy what has the things you want and as a consumer nothing more is promised.
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Get out of here with your logic! We need to be outraged!




Thank you for posting that.
 
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Barakov

Barakov

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I wouldn't mind too much if this is the case. Hopefully this time around they can release a complete game that doesn't need a "Royal" edition to complete the story.
 
MasterCornholio

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MrFunSocks said:
And why weren't they on the dreamcast?

lol @ "every system known to man" when you know very well there was only the PS2, dreamcast, and later gamecube. So Sony paid to keep those EA games off the dreamcast, meaning they were exclusive to PS2.



FFXVI is being kept from another console that it otherwise would absolutely release on because sony paid money (if this rumour is true). That is the definition of anti-consumer. They are literally stopping people from being able to play a game they otherwise would have been able to.
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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if both companies make anti consumer moves in the name of competition for the first couple of years.

I'm definitely expecting Microsoft to counter these moves with something similar.

I know you don't like to hear this but it's part of business.
 
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Northeastmonk

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I want to see space aliens in the next Final Fantasy. They’re dancing around the crystal story. Either go way back in time or send us into space.
 
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