FFXVI only PS5?

[Payadopa]

Wow, consoles being anti-consumer? Crazy.
Wish people would stop buying these 600 dollar bricks. Inferior hardware, anti-consumer nonsense, exclusive expensive controllers, forced to just live with the rushed production cycles and wait for fixes from on-high since you can't even use player mods, upgraded versions come out at arbitrary times and you have to just buy a whole new system if you want to play new games at passable performance, can't just swap out parts. Just awful. And then they know we're not gonna buy that crap, so what do they do? Release a highly desired title and then lock it behind the purchase of one of these awful things.

At least in a year it'll be on PC.

Someone has been drinking the Master Race Kool-aid. lol
I play on PC and console but I can't count the times where an update broke my game on PC or a got a weird error message. On console it just runs fine but I can't alter stuff. In the end it's just preferences. Personally, I prefer consoles and their one button.

[BluexBird]

Sir this is a Wendy's.

[Amenara]

My biggest problem/concern with them making 16 a console exclusive launch is that I know how bad SE is at porting games to PC and I am concerned we will get a buggy mess when it eventually gets ported over. Also apparently the 6 month exclusivity deal doesn't mean we are getting the PC version 6 months later...

[Absimiliard]

Because you said so?

Like ... these days I'm definitely one of those PCmaster race dude, but I still find it hilarious the language some of you are using. Do you think including these "soul-crushing-monstrosity-words" into your sentence will lend them weight or something? Industry destroying? Like ... yo, I don't know how long you've been gaming, but let me tell you as someone who have been gaming since the mid 90': the industry have been getting stronger every year. And it's not even a linear, but more like exponential growth. If after almost 30 years and there still no sight of the industry being destroyed you mentioned, maybe it's time to re-evaluate your evaluation? Or you just really want to play a false prophet?


Seriously, just be honest and say you just want everything on one platform to save yourself some money, that's all there is to it, that's the real and only reason. Not because you care about the state of the industry or whatever grandstanding reason you are window-dressing your argument. Like ... it's not even a bad thing so why pretend? It's normal for all of us to have more while paying less, myself included.

I've been gaming since before most of the players on FFXIV were even born. You missed the first game crash, which occurred around 83 and lasted until 85. The crash almost did destroy the industry. It was caused by a combination of over-saturation and the shady business practices of several (then) leading companies. Exclusivity is as old as the industry itself, but it is well known to be harmful - it always has been. It was largely unavoidable in the old days given hardware differences, of course.

Gaming companies are now far larger than they were before, boasting greater reach and much deeper pockets than at any point prior. Society as a whole is also more connected than ever before; entire communities exist online, and friend groups spiderweb out through the world in ways we could never even have conceived of even twenty years ago. Companies like Sony and Microsoft like to abuse this reach to the fullest extent possible, and gamers are the ones that pay for it. Exclusiviity deals are just one of several things holding back smaller companies that might like to get a leg up in the industry. Without fresh blood, you get stagnation. We saw stagnation in the 80s, and we're seeing it again now. We're also seeing a lot of larger companies going out of their way to snuff out smaller ones, oft times through underhanded means, before they have the chance to get anywhere.

I've no need to reevaluate anything. Economists have been predicting another game crash for a while now, and much of what they've predicted would happen leading up to it has already come to pass. It may be next year, it may be a decade from now, but there very little chance the gaming industry won't experience another crash. And yes, exclusivity deals are a contributing factor.

The above aside, I must ask, why are you so often disingenuous in your posts? You frequently go out of your way to imply malice and/or dishonesty where there is none simply because you happen to disagree with a poster. Is it a lack of confidence in the merit of your own posts, or do you just genuinely believe everyone you disagree with is acting in bad faith?

Oh, and for the record, I already own nearly every console released in the last 45 or so years. Yes, including a PS5. I do care about the industry, because it's this industry that keeps a roof over my head. Another game crash means I either go hungry or find a new line of work, and I'd prefer neither of those.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

And "easier" to repair. If anything breaks down, you can replace it, often with a better piece than before (depending on which it was). Consoles have specific hardware, you can't just slap a new piece and call it a day

Can't slap an Intel cpu in an amd socket and vice versa.



Need ddr5 for newer motherboards and ddr4 for older (or ddr3 if you have a really old build)



You wouldn't want to pair a newer GPU with an ancient cpu as you are just leaving performance on the table.



Gotta make sure your psu has enough watts and amps on the right rails to power your system.



It's a lot more than people tend to say, but it's not that hard either.

[Seraphor]

Thankfully with Microsoft Xbox going headstrong recently, PlayStation has been releasing its own IPs on PC to boost sales, and it's only a matter of a couple of years before Day 1 console exclusives find their way to the PC.
Hopefully, they acquire SE next after Activision so "Everyone" can enjoy playing the next FF games instead of just PlayStation players.

"Everyone"
Ah yes, force lifelong Final Fantasy fans who have bought Sony consoles their entire lives to move to Xbox or PC to continue playing their franchise.
PC players aren't "Everyone". I can't afford a gaming PC, let alone every single console available under the sun.

[NanaWiloh]

Is the so called PS5 even in stock?

As for why PC, backwards compatibility, emulation
Yes, PCs costs significantly more than a console, but it also can do much more and more than likely last longer.

Walmart where I shop and the one near my parents house. Both have had 3-4 units in quite routinely with them taking a week to two weeks to sell them all. Just depends on where you live and if the stores that sell them are getting them routinely enough.

[ieatcatfood]

It's funny how the release coincides with PS5's finally being regularly in stock. Still not getting one though. The Vita was Sony's last good console, and it sold terribly anyway, with most games on it not utilising its full capability.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Ah yes, force lifelong Final Fantasy fans who have bought Sony consoles their entire lives.

Ever see that one seemingly innocuous comment that just reminds you how old you really are?

[Atelier-Bagur]

So what? Even if it's always been a thing doesn't change the fact it's an outdated monstrosity. Early consoles weren't able to port games due architecture. It's 2023 however, they are able to release on any platorm yet chose not to.

Like I said, in a perfect world we would all be gaming under one platform and I would like thay. But this isnt a perfect world.