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I'm genuinely shocked by this. The gaming industry usually culls companies based on acquisitions, then become insolvent by the investor.. maybe I missed a beat
by bilekas 3y ago
I'm genuinely shocked by this. The gaming industry usually culls companies based on acquisitions, then become insolvent by the investor.. maybe I missed a beat I don't see this here. In fact they made 2 Amazing chapters of a series everyone wanted and a promised 3rd to finalise.
I would like to believe this is invested money's and not "losses of investment" but I'm no accountant.
- iEchoic 3y agoFF7 Remake and Rebirth are both incredible, but Rebirth's sales are significantly lower. I'm hoping this doesn't make them reduce investment for the third installment.
- ddtaylor 3y agoIt's also a very expensive development.
- iEchoic 3y agoYou can definitely tell while you're playing it. It's probably the best-looking game I've ever seen and it has a pretty unbelievable amount of content.
- bilekas 3y agoIt absolutely should be the most expensive, but they did choose to use unreal engine, I'm not complaining about but it's certainly cheaper.
- bilekas 3y agoLet me reply again, game development in my eyes is insanity personified. If it's engine or interop, it's wild. It always has been.. We used to have memory and space limits, now we have no limits but time. I adore and praise every game developer. It's a tough field.
- bilekas 3y agoI don't have the sales numbers, but if we look at Capcom with resident evil remakes, they made some cash. FF remakes are in unreal engine, so some costs there but I would imagine far less than a new engine build? With faster turnover times..
- fhuebgj 3y agoMy guess is dinosaurs holding onto the "good ole days" of the "console wars". Remake and Rebirth were both seriously, and needlessly, kneecapped by their own parent company. The exclusivity deals are to blame. One year exclusive on console(and in terms of Rebirth, a console that few people own because of short supply at launch and lack of games throughout its now apparently finished tenure), then one year exclusive on a single pc game store(the one I refuse to use), then, finally, wide release, but by then everyone excited about the game has heard about their friends playing it or watched a streamer and so once they are finally ALLOWED to play the game the purchase is less of a intriguing prospect. I think the original moved a lot of CONSOLES, but to think that sort of purchasing power STILL exists is a fever dream that is dangerous to the parent company's own goals. (pun intended ;)
- hx8 3y agoLiterally the only thing I've played on my PS5 is Square Enix games. It moved a unit for me.
- politelemon 3y agoI'm not very familiar with their media, which series are you referring to?
- solardev 3y agoNot the OP, but probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake FF7 was huge in the late 90s, and they've recently remade that old game into a 3-part action RPG trilogy with enhanced graphics and different gameplay.
- ShamelessC 3y agoAnd bizarrely different plot points.
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