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In a new promotional video, Sony let slip the exclusivity window for Final Fantasy XVI. The trailer shows brief gameplay from a variety of upcoming titles, with release information in small print at the bottom, one of which reads "Final Fantasy XVI anticipated Summer 2023. PS5 exclusive for six months." While the release window of Summer 2023 was already known, the exact nature of its exclusivity has been hard to pin down.

As reported by IGN after the game's announcement at a PS5 event in September 2020, a trailer for Final Fantasy XVI initially said it would be a PlayStation Console Exclusive, but also available on PC. This trailer was taken down and replaced with another that omitted that text, and IGN was reportedly asked by Square Enix to retract any mention of a PC release from its article. While other platforms haven't been confirmed by Square Enix yet, given this information, it's likely we'll see a PC release after at least six months of PS5 exclusivity.

Whether it will come to other consoles, namely Xbox, is murkier. At the time of that trailer's release and retraction, industry analyst Piers Harding-Rolls reported that Sony had confirmed to him that the game would be a completely exclusive to the PlayStation 5 for six months, and a console exclusive for twelve months. This was never independently confirmed, but it does appear to link up with this new information. If it is true, it would imply the game is also coming to Xbox Series X|S at some point as well.

 

[Lazyboss]

Money

How is that is going to benefit me as a gamer? Microsoft have money so yay to them, what I'm going to get from that? More games? Better prices? Nothing.

 

[RichardTheKing]

So...limit a brand-new Final Fantasy game to a console many people still can't legitimately purchase...

Brilliant idea! A+ marketing!

 

[SG854]

How is that is going to benefit me as a gamer? Microsoft have money so yay to them, what I'm going to get from that? More games? Better prices? Nothing.

You loose money

 

[Marc_LFD]

You loose money

How does he loose money?

Yep FF looks to be going about as exclusive as first party games. One console and PC.

If it were a console exclusive on one console only, they'd have announced that, but it's only for six months so there'll be other platforms. Xbox probably.

Switch? Maybe cloud streaming. lol

 

[Bladexdsl]

You lose money

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a modern FF on the switch....yeah

 

[Marc_LFD]

They're trying to push Switch cloud gaming hard and yet they don't get the message that most people's internet just can't handle it.

I tried Stadia (soon to be completely dead) and the game I tried, the demo of RE7 was lagging just by walking around. Great...

 

[SG854]

How does he loose money?

Grab a rich guy and shake them till money falls out their pocket. Microsoft is swimming in money.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Grab a rich guy and shake them till money falls out their pocket. Microsoft is swimming in money.

But the customers aren't. Maybe some, not all.

 

[Kioku]

Ah, yes. It's only bad when Microsoft does it.

 

[Xzi]

Ah, yes. It's only bad when Microsoft does it.

To be fair, Microsoft owns Windows and Game Pass. They get to keep their console exclusives within their ecosystem no matter what. And honestly I'm fine with six-month exclusives either way. It's year plus exclusives that are lame, which is why EGS sucks so much.

 

[Kioku]

To be fair, Microsoft owns Windows and Game Pass. They get to keep their console exclusives within their ecosystem no matter what. And honestly I'm fine with six-month exclusives either way. It's year plus exclusives that are lame, which is why EGS sucks so much.

I'm an all or nothing kinda guy and think ALL exclusives are lame. Timed exclusives are really just a kick in the teeth.

 

[Xzi]

I'm an all or nothing kinda guy and think ALL exclusives are lame. Timed exclusives are really just a kick in the teeth.

In a perfect world, yeah zero exclusivity would be great. Nintendo is always going to feel the need to hold the line on that, though, as they profit greatly on selling outdated hardware in the hundreds of millions. And so I don't begrudge Sony short exclusivity periods so long as permanent exclusivity is still a thing in the gaming industry. It's just nice that they seem to be going all-in on PC releases finally, even if not all at once.

 

[Kioku]

In a perfect world, yeah zero exclusivity would be great. Nintendo is always going to feel the need to hold the line on that, though, as they profit greatly on selling outdated hardware in the hundreds of millions. And so I don't begrudge Sony short exclusivity periods so long as permanent exclusivity is still a thing in the gaming industry. It's just nice that they seem to be going all-in on PC releases finally, even if not all at once.

Just stop the teasing and open the floodgates!

 

[RedColoredStars]

PS5 scalpers can eat sh*t now.

Try not to cry much more about it, but why exactly can they eat sh*t? I don't see the correlation between the article and scalpers. And if anything, they will sell them easier around game launch.

 

[J-Machine]

watch it also get epic exclusivity for pc and i dont get to play this till 2024 but will pay full price

 

[DKAngel]

so over that they get locked away on a console for time :/ i just want shit on my pc i dont own either console

 

[64bitmodels]

So...limit a brand-new Final Fantasy game to a console many people still can't legitimately purchase...

it's sold 25 million units. no more excuses

 

[RichardTheKing]

it's sold 25 million units. no more excuses

How many of those were legitimate buyers, and not scalpers?
Those bought by scalpers are quite unlikely to purchase any games, or see any use, unless it manages to get sold off to an actual gamer who would use it.

 

[64bitmodels]

How many of those were legitimate buyers, and not scalpers?

how do you expect me to gauge that? My estimation is that the amount of scalpers has gone down drastically over the past year seeing how more people are getting PS5s and scalpers have less reason to exist as stock gets better.

You can even tell by scalper prices, they're far closer to MSRP now than 10 months ago, some PS5 Digital prices hitting around 500 dollars (which is extortionate still, but in comparison to the 1000 they would be worth before this is a sign they're backing down)

 

[eriol33]

Try not to cry much more about it, but why exactly can they eat sh*t? I don't see the correlation between the article and scalpers. And if anything, they will sell them easier around game launch.

Basically, there's less less reason to buy a ps5 as many AAA games are coming to PC. I hope they will suffer loss as PS5 supply returns to normal.