Final Fantasy XVI (PC/PS5) - June 22, 2023

[Kaslo]

https://twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status...102068736?s=20

[Gokulo]

That would be quite an achievement in today's climate

[BWYuko]

[Tyrath]

The man knows his audience.

[Uzor]

https://twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status...102068736?s=20

Looks like they're keeping true to their promise of taking a longer time to produce games so that they can be more polished in that case. Their new strategy is increasing subscribers to their MMOs, and then taking a longer time to produce single-player games so that they can be released with higher quality, starting with FFXVI.

[Krandor]

The abomination of the Chrono Cross remaster and stuff like Babylon's Fall was only a year ago, and Forspoken was only a few months ago. They've been spitting out a lot of bad stuff recently

[Kaslo]

The abomination of the Chrono Cross remaster and stuff like Babylon's Fall was only a year ago, and Forspoken was only a few months ago. They've been spitting out a lot of bad stuff recently

I think we need to take into account which divisions are working on what games. This might be a BD3 thing.

[Uzor]

The abomination of the Chrono Cross remaster and stuff like Babylon's Fall was only a year ago, and Forspoken was only a few months ago. They've been spitting out a lot of bad stuff recently

They said it's from FFXVI and onwards they plan to produce more high-quality games.

[Krandor]

Aren't they still planning on doing a punch of shit with NFTs that they funded by selling off Crystal Dynamics?

Cause NFTs and high quality gaming don't really go hand in hand

[Lokus]

No official project has been announced, yet there were some PowerPoint slides a while ago of how they plan to monetize and work in NFTs, which, as expected, looked like a nightmare and also made no sense.

[Gokulo]

No official project has been announced, yet there were some PowerPoint slides a while ago of how they plan to monetize and work in NFTs, which, as expected, looked like a nightmare and also made no sense.

Did you miss that one?

https://symbiogenesis.app

[Lokus]

I sure as fuck did lol. That just looks like it'll crash and burn like their mobile forays.

[Zealot]

They said it's from FFXVI and onwards they plan to produce more high-quality games.

So they're trying to make as many bad ones as possible before XVI comes out.

[Bweigelt]

Lets be real, SE is still fucking terrible and CBU3 is so far above the rest of SE that they might as well be a separate company.

[Uzor]

Did you miss that one?

https://symbiogenesis.app

Wait, that POS has already released? Is that even something they actively work on anymore? That website hasn’t been updated since March, despite claiming there was supposed to be an update in mid-april

[Gokulo]

They seem to be doing updates on twitter, lol

https://twitter.com/symbiogenesisPR/...067191808?s=20

[Kirin]

They seem to be doing updates on twitter, lol

https://twitter.com/symbiogenesisPR/...067191808?s=20

Q: Guess where you went wrong?

1: Potato
2: Maybe
3: 3rd floor bathroom

They walk upward :eggplant emoji:

[Tyrath]

Lets be real, SE is still fucking terrible and CBU3 is so far above the rest of SE that they might as well be a separate company.

Yup.

However we need them to be able to keep making Final Fantasy games great again so leave em as part of SE.

[BWYuko]

PlayAsia briefly had the FF16 DualSense available in their US storefront today. Sold out in about 18 minutes. Not shipping to anyone til after the game is out next month, but folks are already listing their preordered controllers on ebay for +$140.

In other news, Soken said his OST has 215 tracks, hence the 8 discs. IIRC Uematsu used to compose about 150 tracks per title and 80~120 made it into a game. They were churning out a title every 1-3 years for awhile there, but still gives some insight on the colossal size of this game.

[Tyrath]

Oh boy. I only want the PS5 plates but I imagine it's gonna have similar issues.