Meh…Square-Enix games are overrated, imo.
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Saw a tweet the other day by SE where they said 20 years of amazing partnership with Xbox.
Yeah sorry, I would say a very weird and inconsistent as fuck partnership.
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Their mainline final fantasy games are tbh. Nintendo has xenoblade which is better imo. But squares small 2d hd games are very good.
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Think I’ll be getting a steam deck and enjoying all of their 2d re releases that way. To be honest I was about to order Tactics Ogre on switch from the SE shop as I prefer physical on switch since I don’t trust Nintendo anymore with digital downloads support, and the physical game, with shipping to Canada is like 90$ US!!! How can such a simple remaster can be that expensive!!! Noticed on Steam brand new it’s 66$ Canadian, and they are really expecting to see a lot of copies that way? No wonder they don’t release on Xbox, I’m even surprised people on other platforms would pay that much for old games to be honest, as good as they are. Thank god for my everdrive!
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Glad to see you are back!
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Holy heck its true!! What the heck?!
O.o
Phil: “Do you want to see some magic?” releases FF games on all the platform and it starts to bring money
Square Enix: “Ohhhh”
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In truth, even with all the skips, Square Enix is one of the biggest supporters of JRPGs on Xbox…
In 2022
- Strangers of Paradise
- Chrono Cross
- Diofield Chronicle
- Final Fantasy Crisis Core
- Star Ocean 6
Is there any other JP publisher who put out 5 JRPGs on Xbox, hell, 5 games on Xbox in a single year? The quality of some of these are dubious but that is not the point.
And Xbox will most certainly be getting Dragon Quest XII and Kingdom Hearts IV from them.
So I think it’s often funny when I see Xbox fans say Square is being “hostile” to Xbox and that MS should “cut ties” and “not work with Square anymore” and that Square should “hurry up and sell to Sony” (even though they publish much more Switch exclusives than Sony exclusives)
I know there’s frustrations but I wanted to talk about what I think are some overreactions.
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I am not sure if you can call Square Enix Xbox supporter if it is doing a regular job of a third party publisher there. They release a lot of games though. A lot of it is a junk though.
Which is ironically not thanks to Square Enix 
Well actually it’s Kemco. 
But seriously SE is the only publisher who’s focused on JRPGs. The other one would be NIS.
I’m not too sure about DQ. At this point Dragon Quest 10 offline will skip Xbox.
That’s true, but what are the reasons why Mana series, SaGa series and other non moneyhatted games are skipping Xbox ? They could also not accepting the offer by Sony to lock FF indefinitely on Playstation.
It’s probably because it’s not coming out in the West. Which is something I want Xbox to work on; Getting Japanese games even if they are not releasing in the West. But DQXII will release in the West and I think it will be fully multiplat including Xbox.
We simply don’t know. I think there are many different teams at Square with some trying to incorporate Xbox and some dismissing it. The Mana team has never touched Xbox before it seems like, and the SaGa team… well they did release Romancing SaGa 2 and 3 but perhaps didn’t get good results I guess.
DQX offline may as well skip everything.
Squaresoft >>>>>Square Enix.
They still make a few good games but their PS1 output is unmatched by current day Square. Its also funny how people will point out how most of Rare’s talent from the 90’s left the company, when pretty much the same can be said of Square.
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Tfw square is your fav publisher and xbox is your fav console 
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Looks like SE is skipping Xbox again.
I think Square Enix JP is leaving Xbox.
After Crisis Core, there are 0 upcoming title announced for Xbox.
maybe, only west titles like Just Cause and Life is Strange will be coming to Xbox in the future.
well squrre can go f themselves but its still a bad look for xbox to be missing another jrpg especially a collection of great ones imo
At TGS Microsoft called SE an important partner, but clearly SE doesn’t care.
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Lool the relationship is cooked. Never will final fantasy come to Xbox. I said that Xbox shouldn’t rely on square for jrpgs.
They have sega. But ultimately they need their own jrpg series and Japanese studios.
Honestly, yeah it starting to look like Square is pulling away from Microsoft. If I am Microsoft I will start looking at funding Japanese developers that need funds to release games. Also I think there’s alot of potential building relationship with newer studios like Rabbit and Bear Studio.
So I guess anything with the name Final Fantasy in it is locked out of Xbox ?