• BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Square has final fantasy, dragon quest, kingdom hearts, octopath traveler, forspoken, and a myriad of smaller games you aren’t familiar with including lots of mobile game sales. They’ve got like 15 2023 releases on their Wikipedia. They’re doing fine and don’t belong on this list lol

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      They’ve got 10 games for 2023, and about half of them are either Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy (Kingdom Hearts, btw, is basically still Final Fantasy as it relates to IP). If you’re making small bets to find the next big thing to replace your big franchises, you need to make a lot more of those small bets, like publishers used to do 20 years ago and like mid-sized publishers are doing now. Rumor has it they divested themselves of former Eidos studios to make themselves a more attractive purchase for Sony, which fell through but resulted in exclusivity deals like Zenimax did.

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      Didn’t final fantasy perform poorly, and forspoken was so bad, they closed down the entire branch working on it?

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        FF16 sold over 3mill week 1 so I imagine it’s doing fine. We’ll see next sales update.

        Forspoken hasn’t done very well but the point is they’re publishing a ton still.