FFXVI only PS5?

[MirielleLavandre]

I have a gaming PC, Series X, and PS5 (so as to not miss any exclusives), but to be honest with the state of PC ports these days I just buy on either console/ almost always guaranteed to just work once you load it.

Plus, as mentioned, not everyone can afford a 3080 or higher, not to mention how just the video card that will equal one of those consoles probably costs more than the console itself. I think the latest Steam poll had the 1070 just now being the most used card when previously was a 1060.... For someone who just wants to play the latest games decently, consoles actually are a great deal.

[Ransu]

I think that has to change with Microsoft rolling in and saving FF franchise from being PS exclusives. PC players matter, you know. The idea of "Exclusives" alone is disgusting, and what's more disgusting is a company trying to take third-party games as exclusives. Third-party games should be neutral or else it's plain monopoly.

Console players matter, you know.

See, I can do it to. There's nothing wrong with games being exclusive. Get over it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I had to think for a moment what JRPG was an exclusive for the Xbox series (and no PC version) and it made me realize that Xbox isn't very JRPG friendly outside of what other platforms have so... I don't think SE will ever sell, if anything, to Microsoft.

The XBox brand in general is all but dead in Japan, so they don't really feel much need to cater to it over there.

[Atelier-Bagur]

PS5s are readily more available now compared to the last couple of years so people saying they cant get one now are just not even trying.

[Meowdyj]

Console exclusives is one of the worst things to happen to games. It's up there with loot boxes. They ruin your choice of platform and after the exclusive period they barely make enough effort to port the games which leads to horrible releases. Buy a console and award them for this? No, don't think I will.

[Ayer2015]

I find it odd when people defend exclusivity deals still. Its not like the consumer benefits from this behavior at all.
I was excited to play the FF7 remake, however it took so long to come to Steam and I simply lost interest and still haven't bothered. So what would have been a sale ultimately turned into none, or possibly one at a deep discount in the future.

[Picker]

Makes sense to me, Americans only want football and guns so it wouldn’t fit on Xbox, switch wouldn’t run it, and pc gamers are too busy hive-minding on the latest tik tok twitch shit or whatever, so by clever deduction on ps5 remains

[Atelier-Bagur]

Console exclusives is one of the worst things to happen to games. It's up there with loot boxes. They ruin your choice of platform and after the exclusive period they barely make enough effort to port the games which leads to horrible releases. Buy a console and award them for this? No, don't think I will.

Console exclusives have been a thing since consoles came to be. Sure there have been ports here and there but this has always been a thing. You wont see a Mario game being played on Sony or Xbox console. While I agree that in a perfect world, we should all be able to play every single game on one platform, its so dumb how you guys are acting as if this is some new trend.

[Byron-Blackfyre]

I'm just going to wait a couple of years for ff16 to release on PC to play it. can't afford a ps5 right now. not worth buying a console just to play a single game.

[Fourbestintoner]

Sometimes SE just want games to die, like Stranger of Paradise being on Epic.
Consoles shouldn't even exist anymore.