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Square Enix share price drops amid claims Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet ‘high end’ expectations
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Which Squeenix game has ever met their expectations? Weren’t they also super disappointed with Tomb Raider and Hitman even though they moved millions of units.
It seems that SE is severely out of touch with the current state of the industry and where they are positioned.
Considering how hard they tried to push NFT crap the past two years, I believe it.
Especially since they thought selling all their western franchises off at bargain bin prices to go all-in on NFTs was a good idea, and they've been pushing them to date despite continued unpopularity. Decisions like that aren't just out of touch, they're downright stupid.
It wouldn't surprise me if they ended up bought by Sony, considering their working relationship and poor leadership. Hell, I never bought FFVII Remake despite really enjoying FFXV, my first FF title, because of their business dealings. It was PS4 exclusive and I didn't wanna play it at 1080p 30 FPS on my near-launch console at the time. I knew it was temporary and coming to PC eventually, so I waited. This was followed by being Epic exclusive and the first $70 PC title, so I waited for a launch literally anywhere else and a sale. Eventually that happened with a Steam launch, woo-hoo, except by that point I didn't care as much as I did at launch and they had already given me the game as a PS+ title. Didn't really feel like buying it when I already had access, didn't ever even end up playing it, and now I have Intergrade's PS5 version as part of PS+ Extra these days for when I get around to it. In my eyes, they're kinda just standing in the way of their own sales in favor of taking whatever cash these companies are willing to offer them. I didn't buy FFXVI either, because I still have VII RI in my backlog from all that shit.
Wow this sounds a lot like my outlook with Ff7 remake. I begrudgingly bought it on steam when it was on "sale" for the still too high price of $40, and when it was good it was great, but other than one mission it is just the story of Final Fantasy VII up through Midgar with a stupid amount of boring fetch quests to pad the time. Saying it is maybe 33% fun engaging game/story 67% boring fetch missions or "go kill this boring monster" over there is in my opinion being very charitable.
There have been 38M PS5s sold so clearly anything less than 38M copies of FFXVI sold is a complete failure.