Forever-Fantasy.net has translated what was discussed at Square Enix's recent stockholders meeting in Japan. Near the end of the meeting there was a short question and answer period, in which Square Enix President Yoichi Wada took part in:
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
You loose money when hard copy is sitting on the stand. But if you use online download media, there is no investment of packaging and Blu-ray disk cost, PLUS you cant rent online games . So the future in gaming might just be online games download atleast in some aspect ie activation of games or even download patch to activate a game. All this wont work because not all have internet.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Fans of the series will buy a copy and keep it, others will might want to rent it and they can do so by downloading the game online for a period of time. But then again, the file will be huge.
I better be able to get a physical copy. God, SE is so money hungry.
I will not download a game that is going to above 15 gigs of memory that would be RETARDED. Obviously its not going to happen
1. This makes absolute sense since every rental is profit for the rental company, not the developer. And between rentals and used games sales these developers are losing A LOT of sales. This is just a way to tap into additional resources you'd otherwise be losing from rentals.
2. Sega Channel. Remember it anyone? That was the best thing to happen to gaming period. $10-20 [?] a month for 50ish titles that you could play anytime, anyday, and the list changed monthly w/ popular titles often coming back the following month. So why not offer some sort of online rental service for games?
The only thing I can't grasp is the price and time limits. To be a viable option for those who have an internet connection this service has to be comparable to or cheaper than traditional rentals.
So how do you go about finding the price point that competes w/ rentals?
- $15 a month to target gamefly and dust conventional rental stores?
- $5 per 25 [or X] hours of play?
- $10 for two weeks?
that's the only possible downfall that I see. Because if the value and reason isn't there people will continue to turn to already available methods for renting...
Anyway it's a great idea for them to gain revenue off the game. They'd still be selling hard copies to those who want it while appealing to those who want to rent it instead of buying it or rent it to see if they want to buy it. Perhaps they could rent it and if you choose to buy it give it to gamers at a discount. X dollars for rental minus X dollars for digital download equals a better price than buying it retail...