Kinda glad FFVIIR isn't close to 5.2 now.

[Eli85]

I sincerely doubt they care about FF7R. If anything they probably would want those 5 months to be able to port it to the PS5 and Xbox Series X for when the new gen releases late this year. Would be huge having it as a launch title on the new gen.

They should care, a lot. I don't need to tell XIV forum goers this, but I will anyway. Final Fantasy is the second largest (in terms of copies sold) RPG video game franchise, and Final Fantasy VII is not only the best selling individual Final Fantasy game of all-time, but the second best selling PSX game of all-time (behind only Grand Turismo). Fans have been begging for an anticipating an HD remake of FF7 since the start of the previous generation. We're finally getting it. FF7R is a massive deal, far more than Cyberpunk 2077. And it's not even close.

If a company is scared of another company's release date they move it back by a /month/ not five, and especially not to the middle of Fall which is one of the most AAA heavy release windows of any given year. When a game is kicked back by more than three months like that it means that there are a lot of things that need fixing before it's ready and CDPR has the integrity to admit to having bitten off more than they could chew.

If anything FF7 moving their release date just gave CDPR the last little push to convince the board of directors to allow them more time to work on the game. Which, in the end, will benefit anyone who wants to play it as more polish is never a bad thing. No one is 'running scared' of FF7 and especially not a world acclaimed video game studio flush of the massive success of a Netflix TV series that just drove their sales of Witcher 3 and subsequent games to near launch levels, and whom will be releasing jointly on PC/Xbox/AND PS4. FF7 isn't the big dog into this particular relationship given it's relying on nostalgia, is from a company that has consistently bombed with the singleplayer FF series for years, and the initial release of FF7 will provide only 1/3rd of the actual game with a greatly expanded story that many are right to be wary of. The amount of people I know who are excited for FF7R but are waiting till it's fully released because they know SE and have had bad experiences with their piecemeal releases isn't minimal.

It's okay to be excited for a game release but your fanboy is showing if you think either company cares about competing with the other.

There are a lot of problems with your post, particular the items you're passing off as facts.

1. No single-player FF game has "bombed," not even FF 15. I won't defend that game, but if you look at the financials, it was absolutely not a "bomb."
2. If Cyberpunk 2077 really needed five more months of polish, something has gone really, really wrong. It's more likely they wanted to steer well clear of the juggernaut.
3. FF7 has half of the total sales of Witcher 3 on one platform (versus Witcher 3's 4 platforms). It certainly is the big dog in the relationship.
4. Hating on the episodic release schedule of FF7 is so ignorant. A remake of the entirety of the original release — even if no extra content was to be added — would be so financially misguided that it's comical to be against it. This is the only way we were ever going to get the game.