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.

[PrincessLily]

No they even said there not gonna do that.

[SaitoHikari]

The exclusivity deal was made during a time when Sony and Microsoft were posturing for the next generation of consoles. Remember when we didn't know the price of the PS5 and Series S/X until like 2 months before their release? I wouldn't be surprised if CBU3 is experiencing major regret over this exclusivity deal right now, but a contract is a contract.

My major worry now is whether the PS5-owning portion of the FFXIV fanbase will actually keep what they know of FFXVI out of FFXIV chat, or if they will spoil the PC players for shits and giggles. My assumption is that there are going to be people trolling over this, and the moderation staff might already have plans in place to hand out bans for that. But if enough people do it, it would probably dissuade Yoshi-P from ever agreeing to any further exclusivity deals that prevent a PS/PC release on the same day.

[Kranel_San]

I like how PlayStation complains about monopoly, then proceeds to make a third-party game exclusive to their console.
I think Microsoft should aim for buying SE next. Would be lovely to have the next major FF games on PC in Day 1

[Payadopa]

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.

Incidentally, how's Bloodborne on PC? lol

[Remish]

I bought my XBox360 just for Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts. Because I already had the console, I ended up expanding into other games eventually like the Call of Duty series, Halo, Left 4 Dead and eventually got my money's worth out of it. The single platform game is likely a marketing strategy towards people like me.

[Larirawiel]

Why do people still make exclusive these days?

Because:



And it was WAAAAYYY worse in the past. Today, most games run on many platforms.


Cheers

[LaylaTsarra]

It's an exclusive. Will it stay that way probably not but they sure aren't going to announce it now.

[Caddo]

I like how PlayStation complains about monopoly, then proceeds to make a third-party game exclusive to their console.
I think Microsoft should aim for buying SE next. Would be lovely to have the next major FF games on PC in Day 1

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.