Nothing about Rebirth looks beyond a PS4-level game, heck, FF15 looks better in certain areas. And we know not nearly enough about Switch 2 to make such absolute statements. DQ12 could be ported to Switch 1, why would a PS5-game not be portable to Switch 2?
Yeah, you didnt play the game if you think it looks PS4-level
I joke with my friends by calling the Switch 2 reveal event the "Dragon Quest XII trailer."
This is a failure of games journalism IMO. Why jot ask the obvious follow up of. "Well you do multiple multi-platform projects and other devs do similar. Why is this case different in terms of these trade offs? Clearly you normally think this is worth the costs right?"
no. if anything, i think SE is even less valuable to SIE than ever
If Sony acquired Square it wouldn't be SIE's sole decision but Sony Music, Sony Pictures and SIE.
Even if the latter is true, these heights are not so high that the game couldn't be ported to PS4-level hardware.
I dunno. These FF-deals stifle franchise (and thus, company) growth so hard, looking forward to getting acquired would explain this self-sabotaging behavior at least somewhat. The lost sw sales within Japan especially are just insane. FF7R1 as per our GDL didn't even break 1 mio LTD sales, the potential of putting these games on the dominating system (which by all means the Switch 2 will be) is so big, it baffles the mind that SE would decide against that. If there truly are no acquisition plans, it's just such a myopic business attitude, grabbing a bag full of money now instead of reaping much more money in the long term by selling vastly more games.
there aren't any ways to tell this without benchmarking. one of the good things about PC releases is that we can find limits thanks to the variety of hardware configurations. we do have a good estimation on Drake's performance range, holistically. so determining if it's due to tech will be a matter of time once PC version is out
There is no guarantee that these acquisitions will do anything. Other than just making companies top heavy and honestly I don't think that is a direction Sony should commit too. Budgie has yet to really deliver and is clearly in a support mode for Destiny. Mircosoft cleared a lot of desks at ActivisionBlizzard.... at let a lot of experience out the door in doing so.
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Gameplay design is largely the same still and I have yet to really see a game that requires a pcie gen 4 ssd.
I feel like if any deal was made it was probably made during the development of the first game.
That's something I already acknowledged and it's literally in the quote you made of my post. I feel the point stands because of other things I've mentioned: that third-party Japanese devs are reluctant to port PlayStation exclusives to other platforms compared to other platform exclusives, which shows that they do share Sony's view that their IPs are tied to the PlayStation brand to some extent.
God I hope not, I’m getting annoyed just thinking about this possibility
While you are annoyed, imagine what higher ups and stakeholders might feel if it is PS5 exclusive
SSDs are amazing, just that their benefits are overblown a bit. the whole "5.5GB/s" deal hasn't been utilized in any way. you can get by with sub 1GB/s even
From the limited data we’ve seen it looks less than remake but more than 16.
You keep dismissing the Switch 2 like it's a known quantity. But even if we assume it's "only" as powerful as a PS4, how could anyone argue that a bog standard JRPG that often looks no different than FF15 couldn't be ported to such hardware? PS4-games could be ported to Switch 1, it's reasonable to assume that PS5-games can be ported to Switch 2. More easily, probably, thanks to DLSS and generally more streamlined technological progress. "Dumpster fire" is such a crass word of choice for what should be a perfectly fine port. Why even say "Switch 2 will be VERY limited in power compared to current gen consoles", when the gap between Switch 2 and PS5 will by all rumors and leaks be less than the gap between Switch 1 and PS4?
Launch week isn't similar to remake.
Basically most of their AAA games are for PlayStation. Nintendo gets stuff like bravely default and octopath traveller.
lol. lmao even. We got a badass over here
Because every game should release on every platform it can run on and makes the slightest economical sense. When a game doesn't release on all platforms, it better be well explained. And in the case of Bandai Namco/Harada, Atlus and now Square Enix, that is not the case. Here we have to assume that irrational reasoning is at work (myopic market view, old grudges, other bias) and that causing millions of people to lose the opportunity to play a game, is incredibly frustrating. Add the fact that I am interested in observing the sales evolution of this industry and it just ruins so much.
the issue is, has SE prepared themselves for when the money stops flowing?
