FFXVI only PS5?

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

I saw an article that Yoshi told people to just buy a PS5. I don't want a console to just buy one game though. Why do people still make exclusive these days? It doesn't make sense at all this isn't the 90's anymore

[RitsukoSonoda]

Different outlooks, mindsets, and amounts of disposable income I guess.

I've purchased multiple consoles in the past initially for 1 game. Though most of them I bought other things for later or got another use out of it.

I initially bought my Dreamcast for PSO but bought other games for it some time later.
I bought an Xbox 360 Elite initially for Blue Dragon but bought other games for that later as well.
I bought a Wii U specifically for Xenoblade Chronicles X. The only other Wii U game I bought was the Starfox one that I didn't play long before getting overly annoyed with the motion control setup they forced on players. However I could play all my original Wii games on it.
I bought an Xbox One X to play PSO2's US release. The bundle also included a digital copy of Jedi Fallen Order that I'd only played like... 2 hours lol. Then PSO2 NA became available on PC and that Xbox One X has just been sitting on the shelf gathering dust ever since lol.

TBH for consoles the exclusives are one of their biggest factors in driving hardware sales. The reason microsoft has struggled behind Sony and Nintendo is because their exclusives rarely match up against the ones on other systems. More so in more recent years as microsoft exclusives have been quickly moving to PC as well as microsoft seemed to want to merge xbox and PC. They'd also had a noticeable lack of exclusives or first party titles as well which is most likely the cause of their recent drive to purchase game studios and publishers.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The one thing with consoles that you can't do with PC's is guarantee every single player gets the exact same experience. Hardware isn't a factor.


I say this as someone who regularly updates their PC with new tech.

[Melorie]

It's the FOMO, OP. It's an exclusive for a while so it will drive consumerism.
Personally I have a somewhat OK PC for work and I won't die if I don't play a game at release. Imo, no gaming experience is worth buying an entire new gaming eletronic. The older I get, the less I see the reason for this kind of crap. Back when MH Rise was released I thought that it would suck to not play it right away (I even had a switch for other games, but found it kinda terrible to play on it), but give a few weeks and the hype is over and boom, when you see, it's released on PC.

If you don't prefer playing at a console and doesn't really want to play any of the other games, learn to wait. It's worth it.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I dont understand how people dont realize that initial game releases for consoles eventually wind up getting PC ports. We are going to get a PC release, this is objective fact, just like how we wound up having Steam releases for FFXIII and FFXV. Its just not happening atm.

So people who reeeeeally want to play FFXVI on release will have to do how we've had this standard within gaming where you buy a console for the games being released in it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's almost like SE wants to sell consoles or something. Weird.

[CaedemSanguis]

why having a pc when you can have PS5

[hagare]

[Absimiliard]

It's almost like SE wants to sell consoles or something. Weird.

And yet SE has absolutely nothing to do with console sales. They get nothing from Sony save some up front money from these industry-destroying exclusivity deals and some random games on PSN that don't sell anywhere near as well as they do on Steam.

[Atelier-Bagur]

And yet SE has absolutely nothing to do with console sales. They get nothing from Sony save some up front money from these industry-destroying exclusivity deals and some random games on PSN that don't sell anywhere near as well as they do on Steam.

Then explain why we even have consoles in the first place then? Its absolutely to sell consoles and I'm pretty sure SE has made some deals to have their game be exclusive for it for a set time. This has always been the case for the FF series.