They just reminded the upcoming release of an exclusive game and also included some related products to market there. Nothing rare or special.
FF 7 Remake is the highest-selling digital release on the PS Store in Square Enix's history. Plus strengthening ties and partnership with Sony.
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27 millions+ would be the number with PS+
There are 40M+ PS+ users, wouldn't you think half of them will redeem it?
"Shipments" means shipments of physical games sold.
So means "7 million physical and digital sales worldwide", but often they use shipments of physical stuff ("sold in", sold to retailers) instead of units sold to users ("sold trough") because they sell their physical stuff to retailers, not directly to players -with a few exceptions of their own Sony stores and PS Direct, which must be a tiny percent of the total-.
It's not 7 million digitally copies. 7+ million is the total for physical and digital combined since release.
We know of the deal with FF7. That is the point.
With all the rumors from green rats about FF7 coming for Xbox, this debunks that. Sony has a deal for the whole series. There will be no ports while Sony has this partnership.
Sony has said in the past that PS Plus games do not count as sales in their system. Ever notice how it says “Add to library” and not “Purchase” for Plus games?
Just FYI, this partnership message is with Sony ELECTRONICS, not SIE. They're two different parts of the company AFAIK. Getting tech-related boosts inn FF games with Sony hardware devices doesn't dispel the possibility that SE are strengthening things on the software side with Microsoft, at the potential expense of exclusives for PlayStation.
I wish I could put it differently but it is what it is. What I want to see are Sony Interactive Entertainment and Square-Enix people come out and publicly announce a strengthened partnership between them, hopefully resulting in more stuff beyond FF VII or FF in general. Like maybe bringing back Parasite Eve as a co-developed exclusive, stuff like that. Until then I'm still weary of what unique stuff for PlayStation Square-Enix will bring beyond FF VII Rebirth, that's been officially mentioned publicly.
None of this rumor crap; I'm getting tired of rumors TBH.
I wish I could put it differently but it is what it is. What I want to see are Sony Interactive Entertainment and Square-Enix people come out and publicly announce a strengthened partnership between them, hopefully resulting in more stuff beyond FF VII or FF in general. Like maybe bringing back Parasite Eve as a co-developed exclusive, stuff like that. Until then I'm still weary of what unique stuff for PlayStation Square-Enix will bring beyond FF VII Rebirth, that's been officially mentioned publicly.
None of this rumor crap; I'm getting tired of rumors TBH.
It likely does debunk those rumors, but IDK if it'd extend to FF XVI, and it doesn't seem to with the spinoffs. Or other SE games, seemingly, i.e Visions of Mana.
I think if your interest in SE games goes beyond mainline FF titles, it's fair to ask what they have cooking that could be unique to PlayStation platforms in particular. Because right now that answer is very muddy and maybe tepid. Personally I would like to see more beyond just mainline Final Fantasy titles, because if it's not with Square-Enix then aside a one-off from Koei-Tecmo there doesn't seem to be anything exclusive to PlayStation from the big usual Japanese 3P going forward.
Which is a bit befuddling IMO. Like I can understand in some cases but not even a follow-up to Bloodborne with From Software? Nothing cooking with Capcom maybe for Onimusha or Dino Crisis, or a Monster Hunter spinoff? Seemingly nothing from Konami outside of SH2 (which is basically farmed out to Bloober Team)? Dunno; hopefully we find out more that gets officially confirmed later in the year. Even confirmation of the rumored AA legacy revivals with SEGA and Bandai-Namco would be welcome on this front.
FFVII Rebirth is the most important game on PlayStation in 2024 as far as I know and last year FFXVI was the second biggest exclusive game they had.
Sony acquiring SE would be a positive thing as SE leadership sucks and would help tip the balance inside PlayStation studios in favor of more investment in single player games.
Sony acquiring SE would be a positive thing as SE leadership sucks and would help tip the balance inside PlayStation studios in favor of more investment in single player games.
For sure there is room to expan but that train has left. The game is not getting that recognition even yet.
btw - how is the dlc? I have yet to play it (I know, surprising)
Well, there's the deal, which means these games, like FFXIV or FFXVI will have console exclusivity. But maybe these deals weren't for total exclusivity and were instead for timed console exclusivity.
Whatever was signed in the deals, they'll do that. No conversation, negotiation or moneyhat from MS will break the deal.
PS+ redemptions can be into "digital sales" but never in "shipments".
In most (if not all) cases PS+ games are not counted as digital sales.
What is this about? I didn't write any reply in this thread and I don't understand what you're saying. Sorry
Congrats, but they should've never devalued the game by giving it away as a PS Plus monthly game and then putting it on PS Plus Extra...It'd easily be at 10m sales by now 
Hope they don't make the same mistake with Rebirth.
Hope they don't make the same mistake with Rebirth.
Personally, I was never expecting the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy on Xbox but I do believe that FF XVI gets announced for it at the June showcase as a complete edition with all the DLC and whatnot included.
Regardless, im buying Rebirth day one digitally and completed FF XVI last June when it released so doesn't matter to me what happens with these games in regards to Xbox.
Regardless, im buying Rebirth day one digitally and completed FF XVI last June when it released so doesn't matter to me what happens with these games in regards to Xbox.
@peter42O is one of those "impartial" pretending clowns
Would love his eventually meltdown here. at one point though.
Would love his eventually meltdown here. at one point though.
