IGN's John Davison, Daemon Hatfield, Max Scoville, and Ryan McCaffery talk talk about the biggest announcements in Summer Game Fest including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth; the disgusting, yet, tongue-in-cheek funny Mortal Kombat 1 fatalities; and the dual storylines of Alan Wake II.
Homelander makes his way into Mortal Kombat 1 this June 4. Check out the just-released gameplay trailer to see his moves in action.
A former Square Enix executive has shed light on sales expectations and budget realities of the Final Fantasy series.
Yea, I love how so many on here did simple math like 3mill x $70 = they made a profit.
When that’s not even close to how this works.
They take the years spent and equate the ROI to the sum % of stock prices during the years of development to do a baseline ROI and then you have the 30% taken out of every sale on a platform EXCEPT for Steam, which is 12%.
Nobody factors in the cost for production of physical media, the cost of advertising, marketing, and the loss from discounts/used game sales and they wonder why selling 3 mill for FF16 isn’t profitable. Or they don’t understand amortization and how games are supposed to generate profit over a long period of time.
Instead, they say Square makes unreasonable expectations for a game to sell when it’s the reality of the cost of AAA development and ROI. I wish I could go back and reply to comments where people jumped down my throat telling me FF16 and FF7 Rebirth were financially successful and I had no idea what I’m talking about.
This honestly does not bode well for the final part of the FF7 series. It often makes me wonder why they ever bothered to remake it at all if this is the thanks they get for making one of the greatest RPGs to exist. All that hooting and hollering at conventions for nothing.
They should have released a PC version too. And no not EGS but Steam and maybe someday GOG
Mortal Kombat 1 has made a variety of changes to the franchise, and the game's new approach to Fatalities is an interesting divergence.
You were surprised after 7 days of teasing? My goodness, talk about clueless.
Really? I mean when he said something people thought, by some miraculous chance it was going to be GTA6 or something
Looks awesome - I look forward to getting stuck into this one once I've rinsed out FFXVI.
Aside from MK1, this was pretty much the only thing that excited me from that Showcase. Like what is it with these showcases being so boring and then ending with a single banger? I almost with they’d just show their finales and call it a day.
Spider-Man 2 was the only thing in the Sony showcase that wowed me. Rebirth was basically it for SGF, but MK1 was pretty cool, too… but it was basically just MK to me with a ton of fan service.
Everyone saying "but they were teasing/advertising it in the lead up to SGF so it wasn't a surprise" are all being downvoted. Everyone blindly cheering FF7 with zero regard to the content of the article gets upvoted lol.
Pertinently, it wasn't a surprise whatsoever. There was plenty of discussion and announcement from SE in the past week.