FFXVI only PS5?

[RitsukoSonoda]

Sony and Epic are known for paying for exclusivity because they are a cancer on the world, ignore what they are saying wait for a year.

Final Fantasy games being on playstation systems initially was nothing about exclusivity. Square titles were a staple on Nintendo systems up till the N64 PS1 era where Square opted to move to Sony because their system used discs instead of cartridges which allowed them far more data space to cram stuff in a game title. In a tech demo for the N64 square had actually provided a demo featuring FF6 characters and enemies in 3D which looked nearly identical to the overworld style sprites of FF7. If I remember right the N64 was also originally supposed to be a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony but Nintendo being stubborn and not wanting to trade cartridges for discs for game storage caused that to fall through and resulted in Sony selling their own console.

Epic however has been tossing that Fortnite money around like candy buying timed exclusives on new releases. Part of that IMO is it's pretty much the only way it can call itself competition for steam. Sure their cut in the platform puts more money into developer/publisher pockets than steam. However the steam userbase is so large most of them would see nearly all their sales come from steam without buying the timed exclusives. Some consumers will actually end up "double dipping" on titles with multiplayer features or modes, buying it at launch on Epic then getting it again later when it's on a steam sale for a huge discount to make it easier to play with their larger list of friends on that platform.

[DiaDeem]

If I remember right the N64 was also originally supposed to be a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony but Nintendo being stubborn and not wanting to trade cartridges for discs for game storage caused that to fall through and resulted in Sony selling their own console.

Not quite. They worked together on a SNES+CD Addon Called the Nintendo Play Station (with the space in between the words) and there's pictures of an actual model:


But then Nintendo literally one day after Sony showed off the prototype were like "Uh... actually we don't wanna do this anymore" because the SEGA CD was crashing super hard, and instead partnered with Philips to make the same thing, but then that also fell through. Phillips kept the rights to make Zelda and Mario games.

Sony developed the PlayStation (no space anymore) out of spite for Nintendo and because they didn't wanna throw away all the development they had made on the prototype.