I hope he gets what he wants. 
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Iâll say gamers if they move their smaller studios to AAA or support. For example their smaller games in Octopath and Triangle Strategy sold at least 3.5million combined, and they offer an experience that is not offered by many studios. Anyways, I feel if Sony acquires them they will kill off those type of games, which I enjoy.
Personally, I believe that those small games would still exist because they would be a perfect fit for Sonyâs PS Plus three tier subscription service. They add value to it, get more people into it that want to play these games, eliminate the expenses of disc based retail versions and can still sell them digitally for those who may want to buy them.
Sony havenât really given me the impression of being all in on such a service yet, I donât know if theyâd be willing to make this sort of move
Agreed but by the time this happens (if it does), they could have changed their plans already and put those smaller games on their service.
I donât think you gotta be all in to put those (presumably) lower budget games in.
Disney didnât want KH3 to be a PS4 exclusive back when PS4 was handily beating Xbox OneâŚTheres no way KH4 is an exclusive. At worst its a PC/PS5 game.
FF16 is going to do poorly being on PS5 only. It wonât make its budget back nor will it make much profit. Needs to come out on PC asap. Xbox is another question. But Iâm guessing there maybe contractual issues.
So buy SE for FF? what a fucking waste that is when SE have so many unused great IPâs.
Also Lets be real. FF isnât what it was. Unless theyre gonna just remake them. FF isnât the answer for Sony to sell an extra 2 million PS5âs.
Personally I hope Sony blows what little cash they have on Square Enix. They already money hat them with timed exclusive games and letâs be real. Balan Wonderworld was a disaster. Forespoken looks janky. They lost their Western Studios. Capcom in comparison would be a huge blow. Other than FF Square has been putting out garbage and ruining games for years.
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NOOO SHHHHH!!
Sony do not listen to this user!! SE is a MASSIVE and SMART acquisition and one faaaaaaar BIGGER AND BETTER than any one from Microsoft. Use 5-6 billions of the 8 (or all of it!) to secure Balan FF into the ps ecosystem for all eternity and the less money you have to screw others the better 
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In no way is FF16 going to do poorly by being a PS exclusive.
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Sony made their best selling big blockbuster tittles cross-gen to have better sales and margins while PS5 is still being hard to buy and affected by chip shortagesâŚ
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If itâs PS5 exclusive it will. If itâs on PS4 or wonât.
Final Fantasy XV was on three separate platforms, years into the Xbox One and PS4 gen (meaning user bases were already established) and it still sold less than some of SE Westâs games that SE considered failures (FXV sold just under 10 million after five years).
Removing at least one of those platforms, and relying on a console being faced with massive shortages and considerably less user base than the aforementioned consoles, pretty much guarantees that it wonât sell as much. Look at FF7R⌠the remake of the best-selling non-MMO Final Fantasy which sold considerably less than the original, and even FFXVâŚ
Sure, the investment that SE has received from Sony will help soften any blows, but I always remind people of how much FF and Square-Enix Japan have diminished in actual popularity, compared to the reality-distortion field that certain online circles apply.
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Not to mention that theyâre now trying to target an smaller user base on PS5. Remember the Bethesda arguments saying that Xbox canât afford to make the games exclusive? That honestly might be true for Playstation and Sony. Iâm not sure Sony can or would take losses on a division like that. Squares barely profitable now. If it wasnât for FF14, they wouldnât be.
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Good lordâŚif FF16 struggles, itâll have little to do with not showing up on an Xbox platform. We donât know the budget, quality, really anything about the game other than a trailer. If memory serves, the sales split did not favor Xbox remotely for FF15 so removing that platform isnât going to cause it to flop. If the game stinks, if expectations from SE are too high, and yes - if supply is still a big issue which it undoubtedly will be, it might struggle. Iâm simply suggesting that Xbox not seeing the release isnât going to be the straw that breaks the camelâs back here. Itâs why youâve seen so much hand waving at a potential SE acquisition by Sony from Xbox fans who âdonât care because it does poorly on Xbox anyway!â
Itâs not about skipping Xbox. Itâs skipping Xbox, and more specifically PS4 and PC.
Do we know they wonât reverse course like theyâve often done and put it on PS4? Will they have a deal for Sonyâs premium PS+ tier to stream it? Will it be on pc at launch and if not, how long will it be? We donât have the data right now. Spelling out its doom feels very premature. Itâs my opinion, I hear all of yours and hope youâre all wrong because I donât wish for any game to miss the mark in any way.
All we know is that itâs PS5 exclusive, definitely not launching on PC, and so far no cross-gen in sight. So, yeah thatâs what weâre basing it on. We know Square is on a roller coaster of bad decisions, on top of that they also limit their gameâs growth too, no one has to wish for the game to miss the mark because SE might do that themselves.
Ok then. I hope the best. Like you all say though, Iâm probably wrong.